[149] “Marginal Note” in Occasional Reflections, Section II, ed. 1665, p. 187.
[150] Not published till after his death.
[151] After lying many years in manuscript they were published at her entreaty—dedicated to her—after the Restoration.
[152] Occasional Reflections, ed. 1665, pp. 245, 161.
[153] Ibid. p. 256: Upon my Spaniel’s fetching me my glove.
[154] Written after 1648.
[155] See p. 194. Lindamor, the scholarly youth, well born and well bred, seems often in his writings to represent Boyle himself. The direct reference to “Mr. Boyle” is a favourite device of the author. Swift has satirised the Reflections in his “Occasional Meditations on a Broomstick,” but he has not acknowledged “The Eating of Oysters” as the inspiration of his Gulliver’s Travels.
[156] For historical accounts see Masson’s Milton, vol. iii, and Bagwell’s Ireland under the Stuarts, vol. ii.
[157] It was Anne Murray, the girl-friend of “My Robyn’s yonge Mrs.,” who was entrusted with the dressing-up of the young Prince. See Diary of Anne, Lady Halkett (Camden Society) for pretty description of the dressing-up, and the “Wood Street cake” given to the boy at parting.
[158] Robert Boyle’s letter to Mrs. Hussey: Birch’s Life.