191 double Beaumont] Francis and Sir John. The mention of Drummond is interesting, for I do not remember many.
198 I do not remember many 'plays' on that consonance of 'rime' and 'rhyme' which is a main argument for not confusing the spelling. In previous line orig. 'fleezie'.
202 I suppose 'M.' is Martial: which of the B.'s (it is surely not Boethius?) the other letter libels I know not.
205 Ovid] The allusion is to the spurious De Pulice printed in the early editions of Ovid.
209 If people read Whiting I suppose somebody would say that this 'Roscian' must be Shakespeare.
218 Ruggles's almost famous play had been written a quarter of a century and performed before the King more than twenty years earlier, but it had only been printed in 1630.
219 'fetial' (orig. 'fæcial') = the priest-herald-ambassador who delivered the ultimatum of war or proclaimed peace. 'Sand' = arena.
236 Colocassian] = made of the great leaves of the Egyptian water-lily.
249 Here we get into the old critical commonplaces of the Italians as to Poema, Poesis, &c.
270 callent] = 'knower'. Whether Whitings invention I know not: he might in the context have been directly thinking of Pliny's 'vaticinandi callentes'.