[198] Augusta, the old name of London.
[200] Alluding to the alliance betwixt France and Holland.
[201] The disgraceful surprise of Chatham, in 1667, baffled this prophecy.
[202] Referring to the monsoons, which the navigators fall in with upon doubling the Cape of Good Hope.
[203] "Memoirs of English affairs, chiefly naval, from 1660 to 1673, by his Royal Highness James Duke of York." Lond. 1729, 8vo.
[204] While these sheets were going to press, (to use the approved editorial phraseology,) I have discovered that these abstruse truths were asserted, not by Lilly himself, but a brother Philo-math, Richard Kirby, in his Vates Astrologicus, or England's Astrological Prophet.
[205] Sir Thomas Clifford was the person through whose medium Tydiman carried on a treaty with the Danish governor Alfeldt, for the surrender of the Dutch fleet; the sincerity of which, on the part of the Danes, may be greatly doubted, since their after conduct evinced an unrighteous desire of securing the whole booty of the unfortunate Dutchmen for themselves, which they must otherwise have divided with the English. See Ralph's Hist. Vol. I. p. 118.
[206] The wits of that age, who laughed at every thing, made themselves very merry with this accident. Denham exhorts the painter thus:
But most with story of his hand and thumb,