P. 110, l. 16. putid, Lat. putidus, affected, disgusting.
P. 111, l. 15. asinus ad lyram, an ass at the lyre, a clumsy fellow.
P. 112, l. 21. our Sophist, the unknown rhetorician whom Bentley supposes to have written the Epistles.
P. 114, ll. 21-2. if a great person, Temple.
P. 114, l. 23. fardel. Cf. Winter's Tale, IV. iv. 728, and Hamlet, III. i. 76.
P. 116, l. 10. my friend, Wotton, see p. xxvii. of Introduction.
P. 117, l. 8. in the very College, Christ Church, Oxford.
P. 117, l. 23. in some private conversation, see pp. 194-5 of Appendix.
P. 118, ll. 1, 2. Hinc illae lacrimae, Terence, Andria, I. i. 99.
P. 118, ll. 12-3. that young gentleman, Charles Boyle.
Boyle's Examination
P. 119. It was said by Pope that 'Boyle wrote only the narrative of what passed between him and the Bookseller, which too was corrected for him; . . . ' (Letters from a Late Eminent Prelate [Warburton] to one of his Friends [Hurd], 2nd Edn, (1809), p. 11).
P. 122, l. 21. punctually, exactly.
P. 123, l. 14. Dr King of the Commons, William King (1663-1712), was educated at Westminster and Christ Church. He was admitted as an advocate in Doctors' Commons (for which see David Copperfield, Chaps. XXIII. and XXVI.) by Tillotson in 1692. He wrote Dialogues of the Dead (1699) against Bentley; A Journey to London (1698) (see
