NOTES 425 �L. 89: "As gathered from Fidentia's vales" [These circum- stances are related by Plutarch in the Life of Sylla.] �L. 206: " Thus had Crassus been content." [The Description of this Cave is exactly taken from Plutarch in the Life of Crassus.] �L. 238: " Nor had he who Crouds could blind" [Sertorius.] �L. 255: "Truly Fortunate, and Blest" [The Canary Islands, called by the Ancients the Fortunate Islands, and taken by some of the Poets for Elysium] �TO THE B T HON BLE THE LADY C. TUFTON �In this and the next poem " Serena " is Catharine Tufton, (born April 24, 1692, daughter of " Arminda," the Countess of Thanet). �A POEM FOE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE LADY CATHERINE TUFTON �L. 19: "How Great that more distinguished Peer." The sixth Earl of Thanet, known as "the good Lord Thomas." "He is a good country gentleman, a great assertor of the prerogatives of the monarchy and the church ; a thin, tall, black, red- faced man, turned of 60 years old. Of great piety and charity." Macky, Charac- ters in the Court of Queen Anne ( Swift's additional comment in italics). �L. 33: "Of Her, whose Fav'rite she appears." [The Lady Coventry.] Margaret Tufton, sister of the second Earl of Thanet, married to Lord Coventry in 1653. �L. 63: " When Hothfeild shall (as heretofore)." Hothfield, the family seat of the Tuftons in Kent. The five daughters of Thomas, the sixth Earl of Thanet, married early and into noble families, thus maintaining the reputation of the family for "illustrious Hymens." �UPON THE DEATH OF KING JAMES THE SECOND �L. 37 : " Earlier than Ccesar far" [ The king was born in the year 1633, and in 1642 He was in the Battel atEdge-hill.] �L. 41: " Which Ccesar never prov'd nor his tenth Legion knew." [The Tenth was the most vaillant and favour'd of Julius Caesar's Legions.] �L. 45: " WhiVst the best General which the World cou'd boast." [The King when very yong was in the French service and Lieutenant General under Mareschall Turenne against the Spaniards where he behaved himself with that Valour and Conduct that in a sicknesse of Turenne's when 'twas thought he could not ��� �
