He made a pit - The allusion here is undoubtedly to a method of hunting wild beasts which was common in ancient times. It consists in diggin…

Pate. — A word retained from Coverdale’s translation, and common in the Elizabethan age. In Shakespeare it is frequent—

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He made a pit and dug it That is, he dug a pit, and made it very large and capacious, to answer his purposes;