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 428 NOTES �L. 19: "With beauteous Eglantine imbrac'd" "Eglantine" and "honey-suckle" (1. 21) seem to be used as synonymous. The plant probably referred to is woodbine. Prior in Popular Names of British Plants (1879) says that honey-suckle in "poetry and popular usage" is Lonicera periclymenum, but that the name "honey-suckle" seems to have been given to the woodbine "be- cause of the honey-dew so plentifully deposited on its leaves." " Eglantine " is a name much discussed and not certain of applica- tion. Its usual signification at the present day is the sweet-briar. But Prior says that the "twisted eglantine" of Milton's L' Allegro was probably the woodbine. And the English Plant Names (Eng. Dialect Soc.) says that woodbine is still called eglantine in N. E. Yorkshire. Cf. Ellacombe, Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare, 1884, pp. 83, 125. �TO DR. WALDRON �In the Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems (Bernard �Lintot, 1709), p. 112, is An Essay on Death by Dr. W of All �Souls. �TO MR. JERVAS �Charles Jervas, a popular portrait painter, was on intimate terms with Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, Addison. He painted several portraits of Pope. After the return of Jervas from Italy in 1709 his house in Cleveland Court was a meeting-place for his literary friends. Lady Winchilsea's town-house was close by in Cleveland Row. Of Mrs. Chetwynd Swift, in a letter dated London, March 22, 1708-9, and addressed to "A Monsieur Monsieur Hunter," says: "The beauties you left are all gone off this frost, and we have got a new set for spring, of which Mrs. Chetwynd and Mrs. Wors- ley are the principal." �A SONG OP THE CANIBALS, OUT OF MOUNTAIN'S ESSAYS �This love song of the cannibal chieftain is in Les Essais de Montaigne, Paris, 1886, Vol. II, chap. 31, p. 145. �AN EPISTLE FROM A GENTLEMAN TO MADAME DESHOULIERS �Madame Deshoulieres (Antoinette de Ligier de la Garde) was one of the chief female poets of France. Her works were published in 1687-88, and again in 1695, the year after her death, by her daughter. The letter here translated is included in her works and ��� �