p. 188 _To Pesibles Tune_. James Paisible, flautist and composer, who set this charming song to music, was born about 1656. He came to England _circa_ 1680, and soon found patrons, the chief of whom was the Duchess de Mazarin, who, with the help of St. Evremond, continually gave exquisite but elaborate concerts at Paradise Row, Chelsea. In a little drawing-room scena Paisible is actually mentioned by name. He is said to have won great favour owing to his easy manners and fluent wit. 4 December, 1686, he procured a licence for his marriage with one Mary Davis. About 1691 he began to supply overtures and musical interludes for the theatres, and from 1703 to 1714 he set the tunes to Isaac’s dances performed at court on birthdays and other gala occasions. He lived in the parish of S. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, and died August, 1721. Much of his work has been published and some yet remain in MS. His are the overture and interludes to Southerne’s _Oroonoko_. p. 189 _Set by Captain Pack_. Captain Pack was an exceedingly popular and prolific musician of the day. The British Museum possesses four songs of his in one volume (MS.). Some of his compositions may be found in Playford’s _Choice Ayres_ (1675); in _The Theatre of Music_ (1685-7); in _The Banquet_ (1688). Amongst other pieces he composed incidental music for D’Urfey’s _Don Quixote, I_ and _II_ (1694), both the first two parts of which play were received with great applause. p. 191 _Set by Mr. Farmer_. Thomas Farmer, Mus. Bac., was originally one of the Waits of London. He graduated at Cambridge in 1684. He composed much instrumental music for the theatre, and contributed some songs to the second edition of Playford’s _Choice Ayres_ (1675), to _The Theatre of Music_ (1685-7), and to D’Urfey’s _Third Collection of Songs_ (1685). His is the music to Lee’s drama _The Princess of Cleve_ (1682), and various other compositions, including _A Consort of Musick_ (1686), of which work a second part followed a year or two after, bear his name. As Purcell composed an elegy, the words by Nahum Tate, for his funeral, Farmer must have died before 1695. p. 195 _In Imitation of Horace_. An altered expansion of and no very close parallel to Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa perfusus liquidis urget odoribus grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis?--_Carminum, I_, 5. p. 198 _A Dialogue_. There is nothing to show when or for what entertainment this little Pastoral was written. p. 200 _Mr. J. H._ i.e. Mr. John Hoyle. p. 204 _To the Honourable Edward Howard_. _The Six Days Adventure; or, The New Utopia_ was produced at the Duke’s Theatre in 1671, and printed quarto the same year. Although the best of Edward Howard’s comedies it was received with scant favour, and the author vindicates himself, pretty sharply rebuking both actors and audience, in a long preface.