P. 42, l. 18. Helicon was a range of mountains, where sprung the fountains of the Muses, Aganippe and Hippocrene.
P. 43, l. 3. he drew up nothing but mud, &c. Cf, Horace, Satires, I. i. 60.
P. 43, l. 11. the one he could not distinguish, Charles Boyle.
P. 44, ll. 1, 2. Oh! mother, Wotton's mother was Criticism (p. 28, last line).
P. 44, l. 6. The first part of his prayer, that is, that he might strike Temple. Wotton's Reflections were published and thus this part of his prayer was answered. As Temple was not harmed by the book, the second part of his prayer was lost. Temple, in fact, was deeply hurt at Wotton's attack (cf. p. liii. of Introduction).
P. 44, l. 13. hizzing, hissing. Cf. Shakespeare, Lear III. vi. 17, 'to have a thousand with red burning spits Come hizzing in upon 'em' (Quarto, 1605).
P. 44, l. 21. in the shape of———, Atterbury.
P. 45, l. 2. Boyle, clad in a suit of armour, &c., refers to the help given to Boyle in preparing his answer to Bentley. Cf. E. Budgell, Memoirs of the . . . Boyles (1732), pp. 194-5.
P. 45, l. 14. Philomela, the nightingale.
P. 45, l. 16. W-tt-n heavy armed. Wotton was extremely learned, but dull.
P. 45, l. 21. Phalaris, his friend, refers to Boyle's edn. of the Epistles of Phalaris (1695).
P. 46, l. 3. And as a woman, &c. 'This is also after the manner of Homer; the woman's getting a painful livelihood by spinning, has nothing to do with the similitude, nor would be excusable without such an authority.' (Note in 5th Edn.)
