p. 70, l. 9. the plays in Moorfields. Wrestling matches and other sports were held in Moorfields. There are several references to them in Pepys' Diary.
P. 70. l. 11, the pyramid in London. Temple refers to the Monument erected as a memorial of the Great Fire of London. Marvell's poem, Hodge's Vision from the Monument, begins:
The pyramid; . . . '
P. 71, l. 23. Politian, Angelo Ambrogini, called Politianus from his birth-place (Montepulciano), (1454-1494), a brilliant classical scholar.
P. 73, l. 12. the little treatise of Minutius Felix, the Octavius, a dialogue on Christianity (for an account of it see Mackail's Latin Literature, pp. 249-50).
P. 73, l. 20. The great wits. Macaulay has ridiculed Temple's list on the ground that it does not include Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Pascal, Bossuet, Moliere, Corneille, Racine, Boileau, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, or Milton. Of these all but two (Pascal and Bossuet) are poets rather than prose writers: and Temple expressly omitted poetry (see p. 70): the other two are excluded as Temple 'mentions nothing of what is written upon the subject of divinity' (see p. 74).
P. 74, l. 7. Bussy's Amadis de Gaule Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693) did not write Amadis de Gaule but the Histoire amoureuse des Gaules (1666).
Amadis de Gaule was translated into Spanish from a Portuguese original (now lost) at some time about 1508. A French version was made later.
P. 74, l. 11. doubt, fear.
