[Footnote 190: _Une querelle Allemande_ is the well-known French phrase for a quarrel picked without cause. The Hind insinuates, that the Panther, conscious of superior force, meant to take such cause of quarrel at the English Catholics, as Louis had raked up against the Huguenots, which, therefore, might be styled rather a French than a German quarrel.] [Footnote 191: Note II.] [Footnote 192: Note III.] [Footnote 193: The different parts of the body were assigned to different planets. The old almanacks have a naked figure in front, surrounded by the usual planetary emblems, which dart their rays on the parts which they govern. What Scorpio claims, if not apparent from the context, may be there found.] [Footnote 194: Note IV.] [Footnote 195: Alluding to the charges brought against Dryden himself by Stillingfleet. See Note V.] [Footnote 196: Note VI.] [Footnote 197: Note VII.] [Footnote 198: This is our author's own averment in his "Defence of the Papers of the Duchess of York." See Note VIII.] [Footnote 199: The latitudinarian, or moderate clergy above-mentioned, and particularly Stillingfleet.] [Footnote 200: Note IX.] [Footnote 201: Note X.] [Footnote 202: Stillingfleet's Vindication, which contains the imputations complained of by Dryden, bears this licence: "_Imprimatur_, Henricus Maurice Rmo. P. D. Wilhelmo Archiep. Cant. a sacris. January 10, 1686."] [Footnote 203: In these, and in the following beautiful lines, the poet, who had complained of Stillingfleet's having charged him with atheism, expresses his resolution to submit to this reproach with Christian meekness, and without retaliation.] [Footnote 204: Stillingfleet. See Note XI.] [Footnote 205: Note XII.] [Footnote 206: See Introduction, p. 114; also Note VIII.] [Footnote 207: The penal laws, though suspended by the king's Declaration of Indulgence, were not thereby abrogated.] [Footnote 208: Note XII.] [Footnote 209: ----_Sinistra cava prædixit ab ilice Cornix._] [Footnote 210: Alluding to the table of Icarus: _Icarus Icariis nomina fecit aquis._ Chelidonian, from χελιδὼν a _swallow_.] [Footnote 211: Otherwise called _martlets_. DRYDEN.] [Footnote 212: A parody on Lee's famous rant in "Œdipus." "May there not be a glimpse, one starry spark, But gods meet gods, and jostle in the dark." ] [Footnote 213: An old Saxon word for a village.] [Footnote 214: It is a vulgar idea, that a dead swallow, suspended in the air, intimates a change of wind, by turning its bill to the point from which it is to blow.] [Footnote 215: Note XIV.] [Footnote 216: Century White, See Note XV.] [Footnote 217: The Hind intimates, that, as the sunshine of Catholic prosperity, in the fable, depended upon the king's life, there existed those among her enemies, who would fain have it shortened. But from this insinuation she exempts the church of England, and only expresses her fears, that her passive principles would incline her to neutrality.]