Answer:
a type of payment
Explanation:
From the sentence above, the speaker says that Maw and Meggins deny that they are responsible for whatever they were being accused of and they admit to no liability at all, but because of "consideration" of the services of her son, they are ready to provide a "certain sum" as a type of compensation.
We can directly infer that the meaning of the word "compensation" is a type of payment
B- A process of prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing that can be used by all writers
Donne states that Death is not as scary or mighty as people often describe it to be. He is trying to diminish its significance by saying once people die, they go to Heaven and can rest there for eternity and then Death will have no power over them. He concludes the sonnet by saying "Death, thou shalt die" because it won't be able to kill them again.