the people impatient of so many changes of fortune, tooke such a resolution unto death, that I have heard my father say, he kept accompt of five and twentie chiefe housholders, that in one weeke made them-selves away[…].

Hal. Oh, don't fuss, Gen. I'll do my part all right. Mamma's 'structed me, you know. Genevieve. Instructed, Hal.

He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.

In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.