[Footnote 217a: Note C: Note XVI.] [Footnote 218: Louis XIV. whose revocation of the Edict of Nantes has been so frequently alluded to. As that monarch did not proceed to the extremity of capital punishment against the Huguenots, Dryden contends his edicts were more merciful than the penal laws, by which mass-priests are denounced as guilty of high treason.] [Footnote 219: Note XVII.] [Footnote 220: The poet alludes to the enchantress Duessa, who, when disrobed by Prince Arthur, was changed from a beautiful woman into A loathly wrinkled hag, ill-favoured, old, Whose secret filth good manners biddeth not be told. SPENSER'S _Fairy Queen_, Book I, canto 8. ] [Footnote 221: Note XVIII.] [Footnote 222: The fiend in the Book of Tobit, who haunted Raguel's daughter, is frighted away, by fumigation, by Tobias her bridegroom. Thus, Milton: ----Better pleased Than Asmodeus with the fishy fume, That drove him, though enamoured, from the spouse Of Tobit's son, and with a vengeance sent From Media post to Egypt, there fast bound. _Par. Lost_, Book IV. ] [Footnote 223: A proverbial expression, taken from our author's alteration of the "Tempest." See Vol. III. p. 176.] [Footnote 224: Æneid, lib. vii. 1. 213.] [Footnote 225: Note XIX.] [Footnote 226: Two pamphlets were published, urging the necessity of an alliance between the church of England and the Dissenters; and warmly exhorting the latter not to be cajoled to serve the purposes of their joint enemies of Rome, by the pretended toleration which was held out as a snare to them. One of these, called "Reflections on the Declaration of Indulgence," is ascribed to Burnet; the other, called "Advice to Dissenters," is supposed to come from the masterly pen of Halifax.] [Footnote 227: Ον Βριαρεων καλέουσι θεοι, ανδρες δε τεπαντες Αιγααιων.] [Footnote 228: Note XX.] [Footnote 229: The power claimed, and liberally exercised, by the king, of dispensing with the penal statutes.] [Footnote 230: That is, wishing the accession of the Prince of Orange, then the presumptive heir of the crown.] [Footnote 231: Note XXI.] [Footnote 232: The refugee Huguenots. See Note XXII.] [Footnote 233: James II. See Note XXIII.] [Footnote 234: The Catholic chapel in Whitehall.] [Footnote 235: The clergy of the church of England, and those of London in particular. See Note XXIV.] [Footnote 236: The Catholic clergy, maintained by King James.] [Footnote 237: The cock is made an emblem of the regular clergy of Rome, on account of their nocturnal devotions and mattins.] [Footnote 238: The Nuns.] [Footnote 239: Note XXV.] [Footnote 240: The worship of images, charged upon the Romish church by Protestants as idolatrous.] [Footnote 241: Note XXVI.] [Footnote 242: The Doves.] [Footnote 243: The laws imposing the penalty of high treason on priests saying mass in England.] [Footnote 244: The Roman Catholic nobility, excluded from the House of Peers by the imposition of the test.]