p. 165 _Song. When Jemmy_. This was reprinted in _The Muses Mercury_, September, 1707: as ‘On Capt. ---- going to the Wars in Flanders’, _A Song. To a Scotch Tune_, and signed Astræa. _The Muses Mercury_ adds the following note: ‘Tho this Poetess’s true Name was _Apharra_, yet she in her Amours and Poetical Characters, assum’d the _Nomme de Guerre_ of _Astræa_: And thus we find this Song subscrib’d by her self, which shews it came from her Heart, however imperfect it may be otherwise.’ Surely, so dainty and, indeed, pathetic a little song can need no plea for admittance into any poetical collection. p. 166 _To Mr. Creech_. This poem appears as ‘To The Unknown Daphnis on his Excellent translation of _Lucretius_’, dated ‘_London_. Jan. 25, 1682’, and signed ‘_A. Behn_’ in the second edition of Creech’s translation of _Lucretius_ (Oxford, 1683), there are also commendatory verses prefixed to this edition by Waller, Evelyn, Otway, Tate, Duke and others. p. 168 _The Learned Thirsis_ is Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), the famous Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, who matriculated from Wadham, 12 November, 1651, and 25 September, 1652, was elected a scholar. He graduated B.A. 25 June, 1654, M.A. three years later. He took his B.D. and D.D. 3 July, 1669. From 30 June, 1657 to 24 March, 1670 (when he resigned), he held a Wadham fellowship. Cowley, in his _Ode to the Royal Society_, had praised Sprat’s _History of the Royal Society of London_ (1667), and when Cowley died, in 1667, Sprat wrote _An Account of the Life of Mr. Abraham Cowley._ p. 169 _Strephon the Great_ is John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), who was admitted a fellow commoner at Wadham, 18 January, 1659-60. He was created M.A. 9 September, 1661, when little more than fourteen. The four silver pint pots he presented to his college are still preserved. p. 171 _To Mrs. W._ i.e. Anne Wharton, born in Oxfordshire about 1632, second daughter and coheiress of Sir Henry Lee, third baronet of Ditchley, by Anne, daughter of Sir John Danvers of Cornbury; 16 September, 1673, she married as his first wife Thomas Wharton (afterwards first Marquis of Wharton), to whom she brought £10,000 dowry and £2,500 a year. The match proved childless and unhappy, and it was only owing to Burnet’s persuasions that she did not separate from her husband in 1682. She died at Adderbury, 29 October, 1685, and was buried at Winchendon on 10 November following. Anne Wharton’s _Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Rochester_, which may be found in _Examen Miscellaneum_ (1702), drew a poem from Waller in which he says that she Shews that still in her he lives. Her Wit is graceful, great, and good, Ally’d in Genius, as in Blood.