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 Page 58.Tankerwoman, "water-bearer, one who carried water from the conduits."

,, 60.Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander. Domitian is said to have given a consulship to his horse Incitatus.

,, 60.The glory of Cato and Aristides. See the parallel lives in Plutarch.

,, 64.O fortunatos nimium, &c. Men all too happy, and they knew their good.

,, 70.Hinc atque hinc. From Virgil's AEneid, Book I.

Page 75.Mr. Hartlib if the gentlemen be yet alive. Samuel Hartlib, a public-spirited man of a rich Polish family, came to England in 1640. He interested himself in education and other subjects, as well as agriculture. In 1645 he edited a treatise of Flemish Agriculture that added greatly to the knowledge of English farmers, and thereby to the wealth of England. He spent a large fortune among us for the public good. Cromwell recognised his services by a pension of £300 a year, which ceased at the Restoration, and Hartlib then fell into such obscurity that Cowley could not say whether he were alive or no.

,, 75.Nescio qua, &c. Ovid. Epistles from Pontus.

,, 76.Pariter, &c. Ovid's Fasti, Book I. Referring to the happy souls who first looked up to the stars, Ovid suggests that in like manner they must have lifted their heads above the vices and the jests of man. Cowley has here turned "locis" into "jocis."

,, 80.Ut nos in Epistolis scribendis adjuvet. That he might help us in writing letters.

,, 81.Qui quid sit pulchrum, &c. Who tells more fully than Chrysippus or Crantor what is fair what is foul, what useful and what not.

,, 92.Swerd of bacon, skin of bacon. First English sweard. So green sward is green surface covering.

,, 100.The Country Life is a translation from Cowley's own Latin Poem on Plants.

,, 105.Evelyn had dedicated to Cowley his Kalendarium Hortense.