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 forced to observe in these Notes, compel me to desist. I could not find room to express all that I wish, and affection, and gratitude, would forbid me to say less. I must therefore wait for another, and a better opportunity. I shall only observe in this place, that if by the name "Good Love," which Herbert Aston gave his wife, he meant to express all that is excellent, and amiable, in the female character, the name was equally applicable to the late possessor, and restorer of Bellamore. But I must check my feelings and proceed with my work.

P. 285. These elegant lines are much in the manner of Dryden. I cannot point out the author.

P. 287. The "Sick Poetesse," was probably Gertrude Aston.

P. 289. There is much ingenuity, and fancy, in this poem, and the "Recantation particularly in the latter. They were probably the production of Edward Tbimelby. In one of his "Letters," (without date,) he writes, "At my Lady Englefeild's I shall spend most of my time which Mr Carrall gives me in England, into whose passe I am inserted for Flanders, (here being no other way of going over." And in a poem in the quarto MS. most likely by entitled "A New Yeares Gift," this is the first stanza:

Come, Janus, thou shalt be my muse to day, While I this new yeares debt of verses pay, Unto my Normington's and Carrell's bay.

To Caryl, we are indebted for the "Rape of the Lock;" and to him it is dedicated.

This verse to Caryl, muse! is due.

On which Warburton has this note: "Caryl, a gentleman who was secretary to Queen Mary wife of James H. whose fortunes he followed into France, author of he comedy of Sir Solomon Single," and of several translation, in Dryden's Miscellany, originally proposed the subject to him, in a view of putting an end, by this piece of ridicule, to a quarrel that was risen between two