p. 379, l. 5 _Indian Priests_. 1685 ‘Indian Priest’. p. 382, l. 28 _intrigues_. Unless we are to pronounce this as a trisyllable a word must have dropped out of this line. p. 383, l. 18 _Damon false?_ 1685 ‘Damon safe?’ (The use of the long ’.’ led to much misprinting.) p. 384, l. 31 _soild_. 1685 ‘solid’. p. 386, l. 5 _tall_. 1685 ‘tale’. p. 391, l. 3 _wand’ring Fires run_. In _Poems on Affairs of State, II_ (1703), this is: ‘wandring Fire runs.’ p. 402, l. 12 _Deme_. i.e. ‘Demme’ (damn me). NOTES: CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY. LA MONSTRE. p. 4 _Peter Weston, Esq._ Peter Weston, the second son of a Cheshire clergyman, was born in 1665. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and afterwards proceeding to the Inner Temple (1683) was called to the Bar in 1697. He attained considerable eminence in his profession. Foster, _Alumni Oxon_. has: ‘Weston, Peter s. Tho. of Chester (city) cler. Brasenose Coll. matric. 10 June 1681 aged 16; bar. at law Inner Temple, 1697.’ The Inner Temple _Admission Register_ gives: ‘Petrus Weston. Generosus filius secundus Thome Weston nuper de Christalton in Comitatu Cestrie Sacre Theologie Professoris generaliter Admissus est in Societatem istius Comitive in consideracione Trium librarum Sex solidorum etc. etc. Septimo die Februarii Anno Domini 1683 (i.e. 1683/4).’ In the Inner Temple _Records_, amongst the Bench Table Orders, is noted, 27-9 January, 1696-7: ‘that Peter Weston be called to the bar’, and again 31 January following, we have: ‘Peter Weston’s call to the bar respited.’ Doubtless Weston was a friend of Hoyle, and by him introduced to the circle which surrounded Mrs. Behn. p. 7 _Charles Cotton_. Charles Cotton was born at Ovingdean (Sussex), 28 April, 1630. Upon coming into his estate he found it heavily encumbered, and probably as much from necessity as from natural inclination turned to literary work. He produced a large number of poems, translations, panegyrics, prominent amongst which is his _Scarronides, or Virgil Travestie_ (1664). He will be remembered by his best lyrics, his Second Part of the _Compleat Angler_, and his version of Montaigne. Cotton, who seems to have been continually harassed with pecuniary difficulties, was a gay liver, albeit an intimate of Isaak Walton. He died 1687. p. 7 _two Orinda’s_. ‘The matchless Orinda’ was Mrs. Katherine Philips (_née_ Fowler), précieuse and poetess (1631-64). After marriage the lady divided her time between London and her husband’s house at Cardigan, where she was the centre of a circle of admirers and friends who adopted various fanciful names, e.g. Silvander (Sir Edward Dering), Antenor (her husband). Her verses and a translation of Corneille’s _Pompée_ (Dublin, 1663) became famous. At the height of her popularity she died of smallpox at a house in Fleet Street, 22 June, 1664. For an excellent account of her see Gosse, _Seventeenth Century Studies_.