p. 368 _On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester._ John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, libertine, poet, wit, died from a complication of ailments due to his profligacies on 26 July, 1680, at the High Lodge, Woodstock Park, whither he had journeyed in the preceding April. During the last three months of his life he shewed signs of a sincere penitence. He was much comforted by the ministrations of his chaplain, Robert Parsons, and on 25 June he wrote to Gilbert Burnet to come and receive his death-bed repentance. Burnet arrived 20 July, and stayed four days, spending the time in consolatory exhortations and prayer. Parsons’ funeral sermon giving an account of Rochester’s death and penitence is well known, but Burnet’s book, _Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester_ (1680, 8vo), has been even more constantly re-issued. The Earl was buried in the north aisle of Spelsbury church, Oxfordshire, but without any inscription or monument to mark the grave. p. 369 _Cyprus._ A fine transparent stuff now called crape, cf. _Winter’s Tale_, iv, iv (first folio):-- Cypresse black as ere was Crow. Palsgrave, _Lesclarcissement de la Langue Françoyse_, has: ‘Cypres for a woman’s necke--_crespe_’. and Cotgrave, _Fr. Dict._, ‘Crespe: m. Cipres; also Cobweb Lawne’. The etymology of the word has given rise to much discussion. Skinner, _Etymol. Angl._, regards it as a corruption of the French _crepes_, but suggests that it may be derived from the island of Cyprus where it was first manufactured. This is almost certainly the case, cf. arras; cashmere; dimity; dornick; muslin, and many more. Wheatley in his notes on _Every Man in His Humour_ suggests that Cyprus is derived from ‘the plant _Cyperus textilis_, which is still used for the making of ropes and matting.’ One of the English names of this plant was ‘cypress’. Gerarde in his _Herbal_ (1597) says: ’.yperus longus is called ... in English, Cypresse and Galingale.’ Mr. Wheatley’s suggestion is ingenious but impossible. There is, moreover, ample evidence in favour of the derivation from the isle Cyprus. p. 372 _A Paraphrase on the Lord’s Prayer._ One may compare with this Paraphrase of the Pater by Mrs. Behn that by Poliziano--#Proseuchê pros ton Theon#--written in 1472 when the poet was eighteen years old. Waller has sixteen lines _OF the Paraphrase on the Lord’s Prayer, written by Mrs. Wharton_. cf. also _Some Reflections of his upon the Several Petitions in the Same Prayer_. p. 378 _To Mr. P. who sings finely_. Perhaps Henry Purcell, whose voice was a counter-tenor, or possibly a relative of the great musician, a bass, who sang in the choir of the Abbey at the coronation of James II.