Katherine Philips, by birth Katherine Fowler, became the wife in 1647 of Colonel James Philips, of the Priory, Cardigan. She was a wit and poetess, and well-known to a large circle of friends as "the matchless Orinda." Each member of her coterie had a similar fantastic pseudonym, and it is possible that this may account for the Etesia and Timander, the Fida and Lysimachus, of Vaughan's poems. The poems of Orinda were surreptitiously published in 1664, and in an authorised version in 1667. They include her poem on Vaughan, afterwards prefixed to _Thalia Rediviva_ (cf. p. 169), but are not accompanied by the present verses nor by those to her editor in _Thalia Rediviva_ (p. 211). _A Persian votary_--_i.e._, a Parsee, or fire-worshipper. P. 102. An Epitaph upon the Lady Elizabeth, Second Daughter to his late Majesty. Elizabeth, second daughter of Charles I., was born in 1635. She suffered from ill-health and grief after her father's execution, and died at Carisbrooke on September 8, 1650. This poem, therefore, like others in the volume, must be of later date than the dedication. P. 104. To Sir William Davenant, upon his Gondibert. Davenant's _Gondibert_ was first published in 1651. It does not contain Vaughan's verses. _thy aged sire._ Is this an allusion to the story that Davenant was in reality the son of William Shakespeare? _Birtha_, the heroine of _Gondibert_. P. 119. Cupido [Cruci Affixus]. Another translation of Ausonius' poems was published by Thomas Stanley in 1649. There is nothing in the original corresponding to the last four lines of Vaughan's translation. Ll. 89-94. The Latin is: "Se quisque absolvere gestit, Transferat ut proprias aliena in crimina culpas." Vaughan's simile is borrowed from Donne's _Fourth Elegy_ (_Muses' Library_, I., 107): "as a thief at bar is questioned there, By all the men that have been robb'd that year." P. 125. Translations from Boethius. These translations are from the _De Consolatione Philosophiae_, a medley of prose and verse. Vaughan has translated all the verse in the first two books except the Metrum 3 of Book I. and Metrum 6 of Book II. The headings of Metra 7 and 8 of Book II. are given in error in _Olor Iscanus_ as Metra 6 and 7. Some further translations from Books III. and IV. will be found in _Thalia Rediviva_, pp. 224-235. P. 144. Translations from Casimirus. These translations are from the Polish poet Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius, or Sarbiewski (1595-1640). His Latin _Lyrics_ and _Epodes_, modelled on Horace, were published in 1625-1631. Sarbiewski was a Jesuit, and a complete edition of his poems was published by the Jesuits in 1892. P. 158. Venerabili viro, praeceptori suo olim et semper colendissimo Magistro Mathaeo Herbert.