Page 75. Mr. Hartlib . . . _if the gentleman be yet alive_. Samuel Hartlib, a public-spirited man of a rich Polish family, came to England in 1640. He interested himself in education and other subjects, as well as agriculture. In 1645 he edited a treatise of Flemish Agriculture that added greatly to the knowledge of English farmers, and thereby to the wealth of England. He spent a large fortune among us for the public good. Cromwell recognised his services by a pension of £300 a year, which ceased at the Restoration, and Hartlib then fell into such obscurity that Cowley could not say whether he were alive or no. Page 75. _Nescio qua_, &c. Ovid. Epistles from Pontus. Page 76. _Pariter_, &c. Ovid’s Fasti, Book I. Referring to the happy souls who first looked up to the stars, Ovid suggests that in like manner they must have lifted their heads above the vices and the jests of man. Cowley has here turned “locis” into “jocis.” Page 80. _Ut nos in Epistolis scribendis adjuvet_. That he might help us in writing letters. Page 81. _Qui quid sit pulchrum_, &c. Who tells more fully than Chrysippus or Crantor what is fair what is foul, what useful and what not. Page 92. _Swerd of bacon_, skin of bacon. First English _sweard_. So green sward is green surface covering. Page 100. The Country Life is a translation from Cowley’s own Latin Poem on Plants. Page 105. Evelyn had dedicated to Cowley his Kalendarium Hortense.