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NOTES to Part III. Canto III.

8 Than Hags with all their 9 Imps and Teats.] All ding to the vulgar Opinion that Witches have their Imps. or Familiar Spirits, that are imploy'd in their Diabolical Practices, and fuck private Teats they have about them.

15 As ↑ Rofi-crucian Virtuoso's, &c.] The Rofi-cru cians were a Sect that appeared in Germany, in the Beginning of the XVIIth Age. They are also called the Inlightened, Immortal and Invisible; they are a very Enthufiaftical Sort of Men, and hold many Wild and Er travagant Opinions.

36 From s Marfhal Legion's Regiment.] He us'd to a preach, as if they might expect Legions to drop down from Heaven, for the Propagation of the good Old Caufe.

145 More plainly than the Reverend Writer, &c.] A moft Reverend Prelate, A. B. of Y. who fided with the difaffected Party.

261 If u the Ancients crown'd their bravest Men, &c.] The Romans highly honour'd and nobly rewarded thofe Perfons that were inftrumental in the Prefervation of the Lives of their Citizens, either in Battle or otherwise.

305 Or else their w Sultan Populaces, &c.] The Author compares the Arbitrary Actings of the ungovernable Mob, to the Sultan or Grand Seignior, who very feldom fails to facrifice any of his Chief Commanders, called Bassas, if they prove unsuccessful in Battle.

350 As the ancient Mice attack'd the Frogs.] Homer wrote a Poem of the War between the Mice and the Frogs.

383 And fout Rinaldo gain'd his Bride, &c.] A Story in Taffo, an Italian Poet, of a Hero that gained his Miftrefs by conquering her Party.

577 An old dull Sot, who told the Clock, &c.] Prideaux, a Juftice of Peace, a very Pragmatical bufy Perfon, in thofe Times, and a Mercenary and Cruel Magiftrate, infamous for the following Methods of getting of Money, among many others.

589.a And many a trufty Pimp and Croney, &c.] There was a Gaol for puny Offenders.

599 Made b Monsters fine, and Puppet-plays, &c.] He extorted Money from those that kept Shows.

715 From Stiles's Pocket into Nokes's, &c.] John a Nokes, and John a Stiles, are two fictitious Names made ufe of in Stating Cafes of Law only.

742 On 4 BONGEY for a Water-Witch:] Bongey was a Francifcan, and lived towards the End of the thirteenth Century, a Doctor of Divinity in Oxford, and a particular Acquaintance of Friar Bacon's: In that ignorant Age, every Thing that feemed Extraordinary was reputed Magick, and fo both Bacon and Bongey went under the Imputation of Studying the Black-Art. Bongey alfo, publishing a Treatife of Natural Magick, confirmed fome well-meaning credulous People in this Opinion; but it was altogether groundlefs, for Bongey was chofen Provincial of his Order, being a Perfon of moft excelient Parts and Piety.

NOTES on HUDIBRAS's Epiftle to his Lady.

113 Or who but Lovers can converfe, &c.] Metaphyficians are of Opinion, that Angels and Souls departed, being divefted of all grofs Matter, understand each other's Sentiments by Intuition, and confequently maintain a Sort of Converfation without the Organs of Speech.

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121 Or Heav'n itself a Sinf refent, &c.] In regard Children are capable of being Inhabitants of Heaven, therefore it should not refent it as a Crime, to fupply Store of Inhabitants for it.

173 You wound like & Parthians while you fly, &c.] Parthians are the Inhabitants of a Province in Perfia: They were excellent Horfemen, and very exquifite at their Bows, and it is reported of them, that they generally flew more upon their Retreat than they did in the En-: gagement.

188 h Than Philip Nye's Thanksgiving Beard.]. One of the Affembly of Divines, very remarkable for the Singularity of his Beard.

237 To what a Height did i Infant Rome, &c.] When Romulus had built Rome, he made it an Afylum, or Place of Refuge for all Malefactors and others obnoxious to the Laws, to retire to; by which Means it foon came to be very populous; but when he began to confider, that without Propagation it would foon be deftitute of Inhabitants, he invented feveral fine Shows, and invited the young Sabine Women, then Neighbours to them; and when they had them fecure, they ravifhed them; from whence proceeded fo numerous an Offspring.

252 Till k Alimony' or Death them parts.] Alimony is an Allowance that the Law gives the Woman for her feparate Maintenance upon living from her Hufband. That and Death are reckoned the only Separations in a married State.

NOTES on the LADY's Anfwer to the Knight.

133 1 Whofe Arrows learned Poets bold, &c.] The Poets feign Cupid to have two forts of Arrows, the one tipped with Gold, and the other with Lead; the Golden always infpire and inflame Love in the Perfons he wounds

with them; but on the contrary, the Leaden create the utmost Averfion and Hatred; with the first of these he Thot Apollo, and with the other Daphne, according to Ovid.

277. While, like the mighty m Prefter John, &c.] Prefter John, an abfolute Prince, Emperor of Aby finia or Ethiopia; one of them is reported to have had seventy Kings for his Vaffals, and fo fuperb and arrogant, that none durft look upon him without his Permiffion.

285 Or n Joan de Pucel's braver Name.] Joan of Arc, called alfo the Pucelle, or Maid of Orleans; She was born at the Town of Damremi on the Meufe, Daughter of James de Arc, and Ifabella Romee, was bred up a Shepherdefs in the Country. At the Age of Eighteen or =Twenty She pretended to an exprefs Commiffion from God to go to the Relief of Orleans, then befieged by the English, and defended by John Comte de Dennis, and almoft reduced to the laft Extremity. She went to the Coronation of Charles the Seventh, when he was almost ruined. She knew that Prince in the midst of his NoIbles, though meanly habited. The Doctors of Divinity and Members of Parliament openly declared that there was fomething fupernatural in her Conduct. She fent for a Sword which lay in the Tomb of a Knight, which was behind the great Altar of the Church of St. Katharine de Forbois, upon the Blade of which the Crofs and Flower-de-luces were engraven, which put the King in a very great Surprize, in regard none befides himself knew of it; upon this he fent her with the Command of fome Troops, with which the relieved Orleans, and drove the English from it, defeated Talbot at the Battle of Pattai, and recovered Champagne. At last fhe was unfor- . tunately taken Prisoner in a Sally at Champagne in 1430, and tried for a Witch or Sorcerefs, condemned and burnt in Rouen Market-Place in May 1430.

378 Pafs on our felves a o Salique Law:] The Salique Law is a Law in France, whereby it is enacted, that no Female fhall inherit that Crown.

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