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Page xviii, note 1.The name of the writer of this letter is unknown.

Page 5, note 2.“Hobbinol:” the author’s friend Gabriel Harvey.

Page 10, note 3.“Good Friday:” Good Friday is said to frown, as being a fast-day.

Page 16, note 4.Thenot’s emblem means, in substance, that God, who is aged Himself, being without beginning of days, makes those whom He loves, to be aged, like Himself; and that it is a mark of His favour to be old. Cuddie’s emblem is,“No old man fears God’’a sarcasm against Thenot.

Page 29, note 5.“Tawdry:” is here used in its primitive sense, denoting something bought at the fair of St. Ethelred, or St. Awdrey.

Page 30, note 6.“This poesy is taken out of Virgil, and there of him used in the person of neas to his mother Venus, appearing to him in likeness of one of Diana’s damsels; being there most divinely set forth. To which similitude of divinity Hobbinol comparing the excellency of Elisa, and being through the worthiness of Colin’s song, as it were, overcome with the hugeness of his imagination, bursteth out in great admiration, (O guam te memorem virgo!) being otherwise unable, than by sudden silence, to express the worthiness of his conceit. Whom Thenot answereth with another part of the like verse, as confirming by his grant and approvance, that Elisa is no whit inferior to the majesty of her, of whom the poet so boldly pronounced, O dea certe!”E. K.

Page 35, note 7.“Algrind:” Archbishop Grindall.