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 418 NOTES �( Jamieson's Etymol. Diet, of Scot. Language). The phrase origi- nated from the manner in which a person was proclaimed an out- law. The King's Messenger, after the formalities, must give three blasts on a horn, in announcement of the decree of outlawry. �L. 48: "But he reply' d she'd break the Glasses." "Glass coaches," as coaches with glass in the doors and in the front of the coach were called, were still comparatively rare in the early eight- eenth century. Advertisements speak of coaches as having full sets of glasses, or having the glasses entire. In Mrs. Centime's The Basset Table, Act. Ill, scene 1, a despairing lover throws himself so violently into his coach as to " break all the glasses." �AN INVITATION TO DAFNIS �L. 25: " Come and let Sanson's World no more engage. ,"- An edition of the Description de tout I'Univers, etc., by Nicholas and Guillaume Sanson, appeared in 1700. That this is the volume to which Lady Winchilsea refers is indicated by 1. 27. This refer- ence helps to date the poem and so the MS. in which it occurs. �UPON THE DEATH OP WILLIAM LORD MAIDSTONE �William, Lord Maidstone, the oldest son of Heneage, the second Earl of Winchilsea, was killed in the twenty-first year of his age. In Add. MSS. 30,999, Brit. Mus., is a curious memorial to him. Its heavy black borders and sketch of a tomb are crudely done by hand. The proposed epitaph begins, �Here William Lord of Maidstone lies, whose end The greatest Navies of the World did tend With eight hours Prologue to his Tragedy. �The closing lines are, �Youth Beauty = Honour = Courage = Wit = Good Nature All ly enclos'd together �In his Tombe Who for his King and Country suffer'd Martyrdome. �The English Iliads, a poetical tract of 361 pages, printed in 1674, also commemorates the death of Lord Maidstone. (Kentish Gar- land, chap, cxx.) �FROM THE MUSES AT PARNASSUS �The Lord Winchilsea of this poem is Charles, the posthumous son of William, Lord Maidstone. He came into the title on the death of his grandfather in September, 1689, when but seventeen ��� �