meant Wills' Coffee-house (1, Bow St., Covent Garden). For the mention of Gresham, cf. Temple, p. 69 of Appendix.
P. 28, l. 13. now desart, but once inhabited, &c. Presumably the virtuosoes were fighting for the Moderns. The word virtuoso was a term of contempt—see for example the Tatler, Nos. 216 and 236, particularly the first mentioned.
P. 28, l. 19. W-tt-n, Wotton, see p. xvii. of Introduction.
P. 29, l. 16. B-ntl-y, Bentley, see p. xxvii. of Introduction.
P. 30, l. 7. She vanished in a mist. Cf. Aen. i. 412.
P. 30, l. 11. I must . . . petition, &c. Cf. Iliad ii. 489, and Aen. vi. 625.
P, 30, ll. 16, 17. Paracelsus . . . Galen. The single combat between these authors is apparently suggested by the following passage in Temple's Thoughts upon Reviewing the Essay of Ancient and Modern Learning: '. . . till the new philosophy had gotten ground . . . there were but few that ever pretended to exceed or equal the ancients; those that did were only some physicians, as Paracelsus and his disciples, who introduced new notions in physic and new methods of practice, in opposition to the Galenical.' (T. iii. 488.)
P. 30, l. 20. 'The blank is left probably because Swift neither felt inclined nor qualified to discuss the relations between the different medical authorities of recent times' (Craik, p. 428).
P. 31, l. 1. the wounded Aga. Cf. note on p. 22, l. 23. Swift follows Temple (pp. 58-9 of Appendix) in his doubtful treatment of Harvey.
P. 31, l. 3. Aristotle . . . Bacon. Bacon was bitterly hostile to the later developments of the Aristotelian philosophy. Temple had named Bacon as one of the greatest of the Moderns (p. 74 of Appendix) and it is noticeable that he
