Brief Lives, Vol. 2

by John Aubrey

[295] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 63^v.

[296] i.e. at 4 A.M., for more than half an hour.

[297] Subst. for 'thought.'

[298] Subst. for 'a mercer.'

[299] 'and at' is subst. for 'e.g.'

[300] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 65.

[301] Subst. for:—'From Mr. E. Philips:—his invention was much more free and easie in the aequinoxes than at the solstices, as he more particularly found in writing his Paradise Lost. Mr. Edward Philipps his nephew and then amanuensis, hath....'

[302] Subst. for '2^d or 3.'

[303] MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 65^v.

[304] This paragraph is not in Aubrey's hand.