p. 295 _The Earl of Melford, &c. Knight of the most Noble Order of the Thistle_. John Drummond, first Earl and titular Duke of Melford (1649-1714) was the second son of James, third Earl of Perth. He filled various posts of importance in Scotland, for which country he was in 1684 appointed Secretary of State. Converted to Catholicism, with his brother (Lady Anne Gordon, their mother, had been a staunch Catholic), the two are said practically to have ruled Scotland for three years’ space. A firm follower of James II, he accompanied him to exile and supported all his measures. During this period he was busy with many intrigues, and was attainted in 1695. He died at Paris after a long illness in the year 1714. p. 296 _Thessalian Feilds_. A forced conceit. Lucius travelling through Thessaly traverses ‘ardua montium et lubrica vallium et roscida cespitum et glebosa camporum’.--Apuleius, _Metamorphoseon_ (I, ii). Again, he is ‘anxius alioquin ... reputansque me media Thessaliae loca tenere, quo artis magicae nativa cantamina totius orbis consono ore celebrentur.’--(II, i.) p. 297 _Sappho_. Ephelia, the authoress of _Female Poems on Several Occasions_. ‘Written by Ephelia.’ 1679. In 1682 appeared ‘The Second Edition, with large Additions’. This contains a poem ‘To Madam _Bhen_’. p. 297 _of Thirsis and of Strephon_. _vide_ note _supra_ (on p. 166). p. 298 _Kendrick_. Daniel Kenrick or Kendrick, physician and poet, was born about 1652. 31 March, 1666, he entered Christ Church, Oxon, as a servitor, and proceeded M.A. 1674. He was much esteemed in his native town of Worcester (where he practised as a doctor) as ‘a man of wit and a jolly companion.’ Several poems of his appear in _The Grove, or a Collection of Original Poems_ (1721), before which date, however, he was dead. The preface to this book highly praises him, and he appears to have been on terms of intimacy with the great Purcell as well as with Mrs. Behn. Dr. Kenrick is stated ‘to have taken his degrees both in divinity and physic, and being a person of vivacity and wit, entertain’d his leisure hours in poetical compositions.’ He may be identical with Daniel Kenrick, D.D., who preached the assize sermon at Worcester, in 1688. p. 313 _any Sir Fopling, or Sir Courtly Nice._ cf. Vol. III, p. 278, Epilogue to _The Lucky Chance_, ‘Nice and Flutter’, and note (p. 492) on that passage. p. 313 _Galliard_. Lively, cf. Shadwell’s _The Humorists_ (1671), Act iii, where Briske says to Theodosia: ‘Come Madam, let’s be frolick, Galliard, and extraordinary Brisk, fa, la, la, la!’ p. 342 _quillets_. A variation of ‘quip’, a play upon words; or an evasive retort, cf. _Love’s Labour Lost_, iv, 111:-- O! some authority how to proceed; Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.