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the note upon p. 187, l. 2); and some other prose and poetical works.

P. 123, l. 19. presently, immediately.

P. 124, l. 23. to Westminster. Until he obtained apartments in St James's Palace (as he did at the beginning of 1696) Bentley lived in Park Street, Westminster, with Stillingfleet.

P. 129, l. 6. Rochefoucauld. The reference is apparently to the Maximes of la Rochefoucauld, 'Nous pardonnons souvent a ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner a ceux que nous ennuyons' [Maximes, ed. 1666, No. CCCIV.).

P. 131, l. 1. correspondence with foreign professors, see p. 118.

P. 132, l. 6. I cannot but observe, &c. As Sir William Temple lamented the 'scorn of pedantry' (pp. 74-5 of Appendix), this attack upon Bentley is a little surprising.

P. 133, l. 8. my Lord Roscommon (1633-85) wrote a poetical Essay on Translated Verse, which was published in 1681.

P. 133, l. 10. Dr Bentley's scraps of Callimachus, see p. 203; and Jebb's Bentley, pp. 33-5.

P. 133, l. 15. Baralipton, one of the mnemonic vocables in the verses Barbara, Celarent, &c. to be found in the sections dealing with the Syllogism in any manual of Logic {e.g. Welton).

P. 134, footnotes. The references in the footnotes are to the pages of the first Dissertation (1697).

P. 135, last line. Solinus, C. Julius (fl. c. 238 A. D.), author of a geographical compendium. An edn. was published by Salmasius in 1689.

P. 136, l. 7. Delphos for Delphi. It is remarkable that neither Shakspere nor Milton is quoted for the use of the form Delphos. Shakspere uses it in the Winters Tale (e.g. II.