p. 120 _Orinda. vide_ note _supra_ (on p. 7), ‘two _Orinda’s_’. p. 120 _No dying Swan_. cf. Ovid, _Heroides_, vii, 1-2:-- Sic, ubi fata vocant, udis abiectus in herbis, Ad vada Mæandri concinit albus olor. and _Metamorphoseon_ v. 386-7:-- non illo plura Caystros Carmina cycnorum labentibus audit in undis. p. 121 _J. Adams_. John Adams was a member, and afterwards a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He proceeded B.A. 1682, M.A. 1686, and is mentioned as a Professor of Theology, whence we infer that he took Orders. In 1712 he was ‘Collegii Regalis Praepositus’. He prefixed a copy of complimentary verses (1 January, 1682), to Creech’s _Lucretius_, and was also a contributor to Dryden’s _Miscellany_. John Adams, the celebrated topographer, who in 1680 laboriously drew up the _Index Villaris_, a gazetteer dedicated to Charles II, was a barrister of the Inner Temple, and must be carefully distinguished from the Cambridge litterateur. p. 123 _T. C._ i.e. Thomas Creech, who was born at Blandford, Dorset, 1659. In Lent Term, 1675, he was admitted as a commoner at Wadham College, Oxford. Having studied hard he graduated M.A. 13 June, 1683 (B.D. 18 March, 1696), and was elected a Fellow of All Souls, 1 November, 1683. For two years (1694-6) he was headmaster of Sherborne, and then returned to Oxford. Melancholia, however, grew upon him, and after accepting the college living of Welwyn (where he never resided) he committed suicide, his body being discovered (June, 1700), in a garret in his lodging at the house of an apothecary named Ives. Creech’s translation of _Lucretius_ was printed at Oxford, 1682. It is of value, and Munro in his edition of the poet speaks of his predecessor as ‘a man of sound sense and good taste’, no mean praise from so great a scholar. p. 125 _her Pen Can be instructed_. An obvious allusion to the rumour that Mrs. Behn was assisted in her work by Hoyle. p. 127 _the learned Daphnis_. Thomas Creech. p. 128 _barbarous Getans_. Ovid in exile cries:-- Nec te mirari, si sint vitiosa, decebit Carmina, quae faciam paene poeta Getes. --_Ep. ex Ponto_, IV, xiii, 17-8. p. 129 _Achitophels_. Achitophel==the Earl of Shaftesbury. p. 129 _murmuring Shimei’s_. Shimei, Slingsby Bethel, by poll chosen one of the sheriffs for the City of London on Midsummer day, 1680, was a factious fanatic, who had formerly been one of the committee of safety. Burnet says that his miserable way of living and extreme miserliness rendered him disagreeable to everybody, even his own party. Dryden very justly lashes him, _Absalom and Achitophel_, I, 585-629. p. 133 _In an Azure Mantle_. This phrase is very nearly equivalent to Ovid’s ‘purpureus Amor’ (Amorum, ii, I, 38); and Hieronymus Angerianus in his _Erotopaignion_, repeats the same expressive adjective: ’.urpureus lumina pandit Amor.’ p. 137 _H. Watson_. Henry Watson was a member of Christ’s College, Cambridge.