[187:2] Ibid., p. 279.
[189:1] See note to Dr. Airy’s edition of Burnet’s History, vol. ii. p. 73.
[199:1] Marvell’s commendatory verses on “Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost” (so entitled in the volume of 1681) were first printed in the Second Edition (1674) of Milton’s great poem. Marvell did not agree with Dryden in thinking that Paradise Lost would be improved by rhyme, and says so in these verses.
[202:1] Printed in Captain Thompson’s edition, vol. i. p. 432.
[204:1] Grosart, vol. iv. p. 304.
[205:1] Grosart, vol. iv. p. 308.
[206:1] Grosart, vol. iv. p. 322.
[209:1] Grosart, vol. iv. p. 327.
[210:1] This story is first told in a balder form by Cooke in his edition of 1726. It may be read as Cooke tells it in the Dictionary of National Biography, xxxvi., p. 329. There was probably some foundation for it.