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 424 NOTES �y* has been chosen Kt. of the Shire to the exclusion of Sir W m Twisden.] �L. 178: "Beneath the covert of a moving wood" [This is a poetical allusion to the common Proverb that Kent was never conquer'd.] According to a historic legend, the Kentish men assembled with boughs in their hands (circa 1067) and demanded of William the Conqueror a recognition of their rights, when that monarch was on his way from London to take possession of Can- terbury and Dover Castle. In 1795 was circulated a Kentish half- penny bearing on its obverse the mounted figure of the Conqueror confronted by three men holding boughs. The legend on the coin was " Kentish Liberty preserved by Virtue and CourageV' Invicta is the motto of Kent. Drayton, in his Polyolbion (song xviii, 1. 737), says of Kent: "Of all the English shires be thou surnamed the Free." See Lambarde's Perambulution of Kent (1576); The Kentish Garland, Hertford (1881). �L. 191: "As much the Poet's Friend, as much the World's Delight." [This line is an immitation of Spenser's thought of St. Phil: Sid[n]ey whom he calls "Astrophel" in his poem.] The line referred to is probably " Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight," in the poem (ascribed by Lamb to Lord Brooke) entitled Another of the Same in the Astrophel volume of 1595. �AN ENQUIBY AFTER PEACE �The title in the MS. is: Verses incerted in a Letter to my Lady Thanet ; being an enquiry after Peace ; and shewing that what the World generally persues, is contrary to it. �THE PETITION FOB AN ABSOLUTE BETBEAT �L. 59: " The Luxurious Monarch wore." [Josephus says that every Monday Solomon went to the House of Lebanon in an open Chariot, cloath'd in a Robe most dazling White, which makes that allusion not improper, and may give us Grounds to believe that the Lilly mention'd by our Saviour (compar'd to Solomon in his Glory) might really be the common white Lilly, altho' the Commentators seem in doubt what Flowers are truly meant by the Lillies, as thinking the plain Lilly not gay enough for the Comparison; whereas this Garment is noted by Josephus to be wonderfully Beautiful tho' only White; nor can any Flower, I believe, have a greater Lustre than the common White Lilly.] ��� �