P. 35, l. 18. never advancing, &c., an allusion to the involved and difficult style of Pindar's Odes.
P. 35, l. 21. Cowley, Abraham, see note, p. 22, l. 14.
P. 36, l. 9. that scarce a dozen cavaliers, &c. Cf. Iliad v. 302-4.
P. 36, l. 14. the shield that had been given him, &c., refers to Cowley's love poems.
P. 37, l. 2. your carcass, &c. Cf. Iliad xxii. 335.
P. 37, l. 9. This Venus took. 'I do not approve the author's judgement in this, for I think Cowley's Pindarics are much preferable to his Mistress.' (Note in 5th Edn.)
P. 37. Episode of Bentley and Wotton, see p. xliii. of Introduction.
P. 38, l. 2. a thousand incoherent pieces. Bentley's critics sneered at his numerous quotations (which they said he got from Lexicons) and at his studies of the fragments of the Greek poets. Cf. Boyle's Examination, p. 145; the Preface to Anthony Alsop's edn. of Æsop's Fables which refers to Bentley as quendam Bentleium, virum in volvendis Lexicis satis diligentem; and p. 133, l. 10, of the Appendix to this vol.
P. 38, l. 5. Etesian wind, a north or north-east wind. The name is derived from ἔτος, a year, and was given because this wind blows every summer in the Mediterranean.
P. 38, l. 11. In his right hand. 'The person here spoken of is famous for letting fly at everybody without distinction, and using mean and foul scurrilities.' (Note in 5th Edn.)
P. 38, l. 18. his crooked leg. Cf. Homer's description of Thersites, Iliad ii. 217 and foll.
P. 39, l. 5. He humbly gave. This speech is a parody of Bentley's style in controversy,
P. 39, l. 13. beaten out of the field. The footnote refers to
