--But by the knots I am speaking of, may it please your reverences to believe, that I mean good, honest, devilish tight, hard knots, made _bona fide_, as _Obadiah_ made his; ----in which there is no quibbling provision made by the duplication and return of the two ends of the strings thro' the annulus or noose made by the second _implication_ of them--to get them slipp'd and undone by. 
But by knots I mean good, honest, devilish tight, hard knots, like Obadiah's; - in which there is no quibbling provision made by the duplication and return of the two ends of the strings through the annulus, to get them undone by. 