p. 379 _On the Author of that Excellent Book._ _The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness_ was published (4to, 1682), as _Health’s Grand Preservative; or, the Women’s Best Doctor_ ... shewing the Ill-Consequences of drinking Distilled Spirits and smoking Tobacco ... with a Rational Discourse on the excellency of Herbs (2nd edition, 1691, 8vo, under the first-named title; 3rd edition 1697). It is the work of Thomas Tryon (1634-1703), ‘Pythagorean’, mystic, economist. This remarkable man, of whom a full account may be found in the _Dic. Nat. Biog._, was long a fervent follower of Jacob Behmen, and forms an interesting link between this enthusiast and the early quakers. In _The Way to Health_ he advocates a vegetable diet, complete abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and indeed all luxuries. This, however, is done without fanaticism, and he has many pages of sound common sense. The manual is in the highest degree interesting, and in spite of much quaint detail his hygiene was excellent. Tryon died at Hackney, 21 August, 1703. This same poem appears prefixed to _The Way to make All People Rich: or Wisdom’s Call to Temperance and Frugality_, by Philotheos Physiologus. [T. Tryon]. 12mo, 1685. p. 382 _Epilogue to the Jealous Lovers_. _The Jealous Lovers_, which is by many considered Randolph’s best play, was originally acted before the King and Queen at Cambridge by the students of Trinity. It was printed quarto, 1632, with nine copies of English, and seven of Latin, verses. The revival of this comedy at the Duke’s house in 1682 met with extraordinary success, and is mentioned by Langbaine. Nokes, who spoke this epilogue, acted Asotus the prodigal, and _Leigh_, Ballio the pimp. _Jo_ and _Jack_ are Joseph Williams and John Bowman who sustained Tyndarus and Pamphilus. _Rebell Ward_ is a sharp hit at Sir Patience Ward (1629-1696), the ultra-protestant lord mayor of London, to which office he was elected on Michaelmas day, 1680, entering on to his duties 29 October following. He was a violent upholder of the city against the court, and in 1683 was tried for perjury in connection with the action brought by the Duke of York against Sir Thomas Pilkington for _scandalum magnatum_. On being found guilty he escaped to Holland but returned at the Revolution. He died 10 July, 1696, and is buried in the chancel of St. Mary Abchurch. This fanatic incurred much odium early in his Mayoralty by having an additional inscription engraved on the Monument to the effect that the Great Fire had been caused by the Catholics. A similar inscription was placed on the house in Pudding Lane where the fire began. Tom Ward (1652-1791), in his _England’s Reformation_ (1710, canto iv, p. 100), jeering at Titus Oates and his fictions has the following lines:--