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NOTES 431 �Mr. Gosse, in Ward's English Poets, called attention to the fact that Pope borrowed from Lady Winchilsea his phrase " aromatic pain." The line in Pope is (Essay on Man, 1:200): �Die of a rose in aromatic pain. �Mr. Gosse now further calls my attention to the following lines in Shelley's Epipsychidion : �And from the mass violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain. �This is almost certainly a conscious recollection of Ardelia's lines. �A PINDAKICK POEM UPON THE HURRICANE �L. 96: "O Wells! Thy Bishop's Mansion We lament." [The Bishop's Palace at Wells was blown down, and kill'd Bishop Kidder with his lady.] �L. 233: "Ye Clouds! that pity' d our Distress." [We had a great shower of rain in the midd'st of the storm.] �L. 247: " Which to foreshew the still portentous Sun." [The ancients look'd upon the Sun (or Phoebus) as prophetick.] �L. 248: "Beamless and pale of late his Race begun." [One day of the summer before the storm we had an unusual appearance of the sun (which was observ'd by many people in several parts of Kent). It was of a pale dead colour, without any beams or bright- ness for some hours in the morning, altho' obstructed by no clouds; for the sky was clear.] �PROLOGUE TO ARISTOMENES �This Prologue was not published with the play in 1713. The Lord Winchilsea to whom it was addressed was doubtless Charles, the third Earl of Winchilsea. �L. 17 : "A droll wou'd at Newmarket make them sport" Cart- wright's ed. of Sir John Reresby's Diary, March 22, 1684, de- scribes the diversions of King Charles at Newmarket as a progress 'from the cock-pit to the horse-race, back to the cock -pit, and then to the play, though the commedians were very indifferent." Shad well's "Prig" in The True Widow enumerates among the delights at Newmarket the "play in a barn" (Sidney, England, 1660-1669). Ashton (Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, ch. 20) ��� �