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 NOTES 427 �L. 139: After 1. 139 are these two lines which have been crossed �out: �Least Ruin'd by their complicated charms Mankind had laid on Fate their unprevented Harms. �THE CIRCUIT OF APPOLLO �L. 11: "He lamented for Behn o're that place of her birth." [ M r6 Behn was Daughter to a Barber who liv'd formerly in Wye, a a little market Town (now much decay'd) in Kent: though the account of her life before her Works pretends otherwise ; some persons now alive Do testify upon their knowledge that to be her Original.] See Mr. Gosse on this point in the Athenceum, Septem- ber 6, 1884. He finds the statement verified by the records of the parish of Wye. �A POEM OCCASIONED BY THE SIGHT OF THE 4 TH EPISTLE OF �HORACE �The Mr. Kichard Thornhill here referred to is the one who after- wards killed Sir Cholmley Deering, his intimate friend, in a duel, May 9, 1711, and was himself, in consequence, assassinated August, 1711. See Swift's Journal to Stella under these dates. This famous duel is fully described by Ashton, Reign of Queen Anne, pp. 392-4. Mr. Thornhill's remorse is described under the char- acter of "Spinamont," Spectator, 84, June 6, 1711. See also Wotton, English Baronetage, 2 : 21. The " Orania " of the poem is Frances Coell, daughter of Thomas Coell, Esq. �LI. 58-62: "The Vine" was a tavern in Long- Acre. The two men supposed to meet Mr. Thornhill there were probably Nicholas Howe and Charles, Earl of Winchilsea. �TO A FELLOW SCRIBBLER �L. 10: "The night-shade with a dismal flow'r." This is proba- bly the Solanum Dulcamara, the woody night-shade, " a climbing plant found in moist hedges and thickets with purple flowers in drooping clusters." See Catlow, Field Botany, London, 1848. �L. 12: "Or honesty with feather' d down." A local name for wild clematis, the full name being " Maiden's Honesty." "About Michalmass all the hedges about Thickwood (in the parish Colerne) [Wilts] are as it were hung with maydens honesty, which looks very fine." Aubrey's Wilts, Royal Soc. MS., p. 120. Quoted in English Plant Names, English Dialect Society. ��� �