Four-score

This Work, beſides the Poetry, will contain about four-ſcore Plates of Muſic.

3. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more. 4. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is four-score years of age, or upwards, and under ninety, to receive four times his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and three times as much more.

I was then about four-score years of age, and my infirmities much increased by the severity of my confinement, yet as my day was, so strength was given.

In twenty minutes after I left the pulpit, being anxious for letters from my family at home, I threw myself into a coach, and did not halt till I reached Liverpool, where I expected to find some: a journey of nearly four-score miles, not a small work for three-score and ten years!

Sir George Mackenzie, nine years of age when it occurred, thus refers to the event, with additional circumstances, as being in his time notorious and uncontroverted:⁠—“And our accusers should remember, that these women were executed for higher crimes than the following Montrose’s camp, for which four-score women and children were drowned;[…]”

Nearly four-score children received gratuitous medical attention and care during 1874, and, had the accommodations been more ample, many more little sufferers would have been treated.

While the survey goes far beyond the upwards of four-score plates, they make it possible to check the argument at all crucial points.