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 NOTES 417 �" A noble Piso does instruct us here," is a line in Waller's Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace (1680). �P 11, 1. 18 : " . . . . the Triumphs of Love and Innocence." [Which title I have since given to that play called by me at first the " Queen of Cyprus ; or love above ambition."] This note is one of many slight indications that the folio MS. was revised by Lady Winchilsea herself. �FRAGMENT �L. 17 : After 1. 17 in the MS. the following lines have been crossed out: �Nor feeds a hope that boasts but mortal birth, �Or springs from man though f ram'd of Royal earth. �L. 23: Abandoned pleasures in Monastick Walls." [Wye College in Kent, formerly a Priory.] The parish-church of Wye was, in 1447, endowed by Archbishop Kempe and converted into a college for the education of the youth of that district. At the close of the sixteenth century the site and buildings of the college were willed to the master of the grammar school and the master and mistress of Lady Joanna Thornhill's charity school. The manor of the vicarage of Wye had long been in the possession of the Finches of Eastwell. It is the children of the Free School of Wye whom Lady Winchilsea celebrates in Fanscomb Barn. See W. H. Ireland, History of the County of Kent ( London, 1829), Vol. II, p. 413. �A LETTEB TO DAFNIS �The title in the octavo MS. is, A Letter to Dapnnis from West- minster, Ap: the 2d, 1685. The "Daphnis" is a substitution for " Mr. Finch," partially erased. �TO ME. F., NOW EARL OF W. �L. 41 : " In Haste th' affrighted Sisters fled." [The Muses- Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, Urania.] �L. 73 : " UEANIA only lik'd the choice." [ Urania is the Heav- enly Muse, and suppos'd to inspire thoughts of Virtue.] �UPON ABDELIA'S RETURN HOME �L. 8 : " Have threatened Hanging, Horn, or Drowning ."- "To put to the horn" is to proclaim one an outlaw. "Makbeth . . . syne confiscat Makduff s guddis, and put him to the horn" ��� �