p. 360 _To Amintas._ To Amintas, _upon reading the Lives of some of the_ Romans. The _Muses Mercury_ reprints this poem, April, 1707, as ’.o Mr. H----le, being belov’d by both Sexes. Upon Reading the Lives of the Romans. By Mrs. _A. Behn_.’ In the British Museum copy of this number an old hand has supplied the omitted letters ‘oy’ and we have Mr. Hoyle. p. 361 _On the first discovery._ This poem appeared in the _Muses Mercury_, March, 1707, with the following note: ‘If it were proper to make publick what we have learnt of the Story of the Author of the following Verses, ‘twould be an unquestionable Proof of their being _genuine_. For they are all Writ with her own Hand in a Person’s Book who was very much her Friend; and from thence are now transcrib’d for the _Mercury_. There are Fifteen or Sixteen Copies of Verse more, which will in due time be printed in this Collection. There’s no Man who knows any thing of Mrs. _Behn’s_ way of Writing, but will presently see, that this Poem was written by her Self; and the rest are of the same Character.’ The _Muses Mercury_, as a fact, gave eleven other poems beside the present verses. Eight of these had already been printed: _On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas_ (p. 361) appears March, 1707, as _The Disoblig’d Love_. _To Amintas_ (p. 360) appears April, 1707, as _To Mr. H----le, being belov’d by both Sexes. Upon reading the Lives of the Romans_. _The Dream_ (p. 183) appears May, 1707, as _Cupid in Chains_. _Of The Return_ (p. 173) the first two stanzas appear August, 1707, as ‘To J. Hoyle, Esq.’ _Song_ (_When Jemmy first_) (p. 165) appears September, 1707, as _On Capt. ---- going to the War in Flanders_. _To the Honourable Edward Howard_ (p. 204) appears October, 1707, as _To the Author of a new Eutopia, A Pindarick_. _The Willing Mistriss_ (p. 163) appears December, 1707, as _A Song for J. H._ _Mr. E. B. and Mrs. F. M._ (p. 159) appears January, 1708, as _The Loves of Mirtillo and Phillis_. From their notice and the reprinting of so many pieces it would seem that the editors of the _Muses Mercury_ were not very well acquainted with Mrs. Behn’s published Poems. p. 364 _Westminster Drollery._ This song has been here included from _Westminster Drollery_ (1671), on the authority of Ebsworth. It cannot, however, originally be Mrs. Behn’s since it appears in a fuller form as _To his Whore who askt money of him_ (_Wit and Drollery_, 1656). There are other variants. It will be remembered that in _The Rover, II_, v, 1 (Vol. I, p. 195), Willmore jestingly sings the fifth verse to La Nuche. MISCELLANY, 1685. p. 365. _Sir William Clifton_. Sir William Clifton, Bart., of Clifton, Notts, the only surviving son of Sir Clifford Clifton, Knight, and Frances his wife, daughter of Sir Heneage Finch, Knight, Recorder of London, succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle Sir Gervase Clifton, 14 January, 1675. Sir William Clifton died unmarried, leaving two sisters, coheirs.