was published in six vols, in 1657. The Alexandrian MS. was presented to Charles I. in 1628.
P. 192, 1. 2. Humty Dumty, in a postcript to his Journey to London King gives a catalogue of liquors, "humtie-dumtie, three-threads, four-threads, old Pharaoh, knockdown, hugmetee," &c. (King's Works (1776), Vol. I. p. 207).
King never forgave Bentley's ridicule. (See Jebb's Bentley, p. 84.)
P. 194, 1. 9. The bookseller once asked me, c. Bennet replied that he had nothing to do with the printing of Boyle's Phalaris, and that he only had fifty copies to sell at first, and a few more some years after. He continues, 'if the reader can believe after this that I told Dr Bentley I had a concern in the impression, he must believe me to be out of my wits and that I love to tell lies to no manner of purpose, and where 'tis in everybody's power to trace me '(Appendix to the Short Account, pp. 119, i2o). See also Whateley's Ansiver, pp. 192-5.
P. 194,1. 14. in . . . Essays, Temple's Essays. The name was omitted because Temple died in the January preceding the publication of Bentley's second Dissertation.
P. 195, 1. 8. Si hoc peccare est, fateor, Terence, Andria, V. iii. 25.
P. 197, 1. 3. Leucon and his ass, see pp. II, 94, 197, 21 9 of Boyle's Examination and p. Ixxv. of Bentley's second Dissertation.
P. 197, 1. II. only here he says, Boyle quoted the phrase in the margin (p. 94 of Examination)
P. 200, 1. 6. Sir Henry Spelman (1564 ?-l64l), historian and antiquary, author of the History and Fate of Sacrilege (1598), and compiler of the Glossarium Archaeologicum, which was completed by his son and Dugdale.
