i. 183), though in this he is merely following Greene's Dorastus and Fawnia (e.g. p. 17 of Prof. P. G. Thomas's edn.): Milton uses it in the Hymn on the Nativity (l. 178), and in Paradise Regained (I. 458).
P. 137, l. 16. perhaps in a third edition, Wotton retained the remark (p. 55 of 3rd Edn. of the Refections (1705)).
P. 138, l. 10. Dr Bentley's brisk censure, Bentl. Ep. ad Millium in fine Malalae, p. 26 [Boyle]: see Jebb's Bentley, p. 14.
P. 138, l. 14. if he had known it himself, Modeste et circumspecte de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne forte (quod plerisque accidit) damnent quae non intelligunt. Quint. [Boyle]. The reference is to Inst. Or. X. i. 26.
P. 138, l. 15. Castelvetro (1505-1571), an Italian critic. Denounced as a heretic by Annibale Caro, he fled to Switzerland in 1561 (see pp. 210-3 of Appendix).
P. 138, l. 16. Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de (1594-1654), is now remembered chiefly for his Lettres sur divers sujets.
P. 139, l. 6. de Méziriac, Claude-Gaspard Bachet (1581-1638), wrote a life of Æsop, and other works.
P. 139, l. 9. The 3rd Edn. has: the unknown authors Diodorus and Lucian transcribed.
P. 139, l. 18. a passage in Bruyère. The reference is to the passage in Chap. I. of la Bruyère's Caractères (1688), beginning, 'Il y a des esprits . . . inférieurs et subalternes. . . . '
P. 141, l. 21. The 3rd Edn. has: . . . Plutarch tells us, by the advice of the oracle, endeavoured. . . .
P. 142, ll. 13-15. In the 1st Edn. the quotation is given in Latin: in the 3rd it is translated. The present text here follows the 3rd Edn.
P. 143, l. 3. Cuperus, Gilbert (1644-1716), a Dutch
