[42] 'Himself denied a grave:' the place of his interment at Caen in Normandy was claimed by a gentleman as his inheritance, the moment his servants were going to put him in his tomb: so that they were obliged to compound with the owner before they could perform the king's obsequies. [43] 'Second hope:' Richard, second son of William the Conqueror. [44] 'Queen:' Anne. [45] 'Still bears the name:' the river Loddon. [46] 'Trumbull:' see Pastorals. [47] 'Cooper's Hill:' celebrated by Denham. [48] 'Flowed from Cowley's tongue:' Mr Cowley died at Chertsey, on the borders of the forest, and was from thence conveyed to Westminster. [49] 'Noble Surrey:' Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, one of the first refiners of English poetry; who flourished in the time of Henry VIII. [50] 'Edward's acts:' Edward III., born here. [51] 'Henry mourn:' Henry VI. [52] 'Once-fear'd Edward sleeps:' Edward IV. [53] 'Augusta:' old name for London. [54] 'And temples rise:' the fifty new churches. [55] The author of 'Successio,' Elkanah Settle, appears to have been as much hated by Pope as he had been by Dryden. He figures prominently in 'The Dunciad.' [56] This was written at twelve years old. [57] This ode was written in imitation of the famous sonnet of Adrian to his departing soul. Flaxman also supplied hints for it. See 'The Adventurer.' [58] See Memoir. [59] 'But what with pleasure:' this alludes to a famous passage of Seneca, which Mr Addison afterwards used as a motto to his play, when it was printed. [60] Done by the author in his youth. [61] Dr Johnson in the _Literary Review_ highly commends this piece. [62] This, it is said, was intended for Queen Caroline. [63] 'Zamolxia:' a disciple of Pythagoras. [64] 'The youth:' Alexander the Great: the tiara was the crown peculiar to the Asian princes: his desire to be thought the son of Jupiter Ammon, caused him to wear the horns of that god, and to represent the same upon his coins; which was continued by several of his successors. [65] 'Timoleon:' had saved the life of his brother Timophanes in the battle between the Argives and Corinthians; but afterwards killed him when he affected the tyranny. [66] 'He whom ungrateful Athens:' Aristides. [67] 'May one kind grave:' Abelard and Eloisa were interred in the same grave, or in monuments adjoining, in the monastery of the Paraclete: he died in the year 1142; she in 1163. [68] 'Robert, Earl of Oxford:' this epistle was sent to the Earl of Oxford with Dr Parnell's poems, published by our author, after the said earl's imprisonment in the Tower, and retreat into the country, in the year 1721. [69] 'Secretary of State:' in the year 1720. [70] 'Work of years:' Fresnoy employed above twenty years in finishing his poem. [71] 'Worsley:' Lady Frances, wife of Sir Robert Worsley. [72] 'Voitnre:' a French wit, born in Amiens 1598, died in 1648; a favourite of the Duke of Orleans, and member of the French Academy. [73] 'Monthansier:' Mademoiselle Paulet.