470 h Unless it be to squint, &c.] Pliny, in his Natural History, affirms, that Uni animalium homini oculi depravantur, unde Cognominu Strabonum & Patorum. Lib. 2.

532 i As Friar Bacon's Noddle was, &c.] The tradition of Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head is very commonly known; and, considering the times he lived in, is not much more strange than what another great Philosopher of his name has delivered up of a ring, that being tied in a string, and held like a pendulum in the middle of a silver bowl, will vibrate of itself, and tell exactly, against the sides of the diviuing cup, the same thing with, Time is, Time was, &c.

533 k American Indians, among whom (the same authors affirm) there are others, whose sculls are so soft, to use their own words, Ut Digito perforuri possunt.

556 Or Oracle, &c.] Jupiter's Oracle in Epirus, near the city of Dodona, Ubi Nemus erat Jovi sacrum. Querneum totum, in quo Jovis Dodonai templum fuisse narratur.

7151 Semiramis, Queen of Assyria, is said to be the first that invented Eunuchs. Semiramis teneros mares castravit omnium prima. Am. Marcel. L. 34. p. 12. Which is something strange in a lady of her constitution, who is said to have received horses into her embraces; but that, perhaps, may be the reason why she afterwards thought men not worth the while.

725 m For some Philosophers, &c.] Sir K. D. in his Book of Bodies, who has this story of the German Boy, which he endeavours to make good by several natural reasons; by which those who have the dexte rity to believe what they please, may be fully satisfied of the probability of it.

845 n A Persian Emperor, &c.] Xerxes, who used to whip the seas and wind. In Corum atque Eurum solitus savire Flagellis. Juv. Sat. 10.

15" So th' ancient Stoicks, &c.] In Porticu (Stoicorum Schola Athenis) Discipulorum seditionibus mille Quadringenti triginta Cives interfecti sunt. Diog. Laert. in vita Zenonis, p. 383. Those old Virtuosos were better proficients in those exercises than modern, who seldom improve higher than cuffing and kicking.

19 Bonum is such a kind of animal as our modern Virtuosi from Don Quixote will have windmills under sail to be. The same authors are of opinion, that all ships are fishes while they are afloat; but when they are run on ground, or laid up in the dock, be come ships again.

413 P In a town, &c.] The history of the Cobler had been attested by persons of good credit, who were upon the place when it was done.

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548 Have been exchang'd, &c.] The Knight was kept prisoner in Exeter, and, after several exchanges proposed, but none accepted of, was at last released for a barrel of ale, as he often used to declare. 678 Bore a slave with him in his chariot.

Et sibi Consul

Me placeat, curru servus portatur codem.

688 $ Hung out, &c.] Tunica Coccinea solebat pridie quam dimicandum esset, supra prætorium poni, quasi admonitio, & indicium futuræ pugnæ. Lipsius in Tacit. p. 56.

687 Next Links, &c.] That the Roman Emperors were wont to have torches borne before them (by day) in public, appears by Herodian in Pertinace. Lips. in Tacit. p. 16.

879 Vespasian being dawb'd, &c.] C. Cæsar succensens, propter curum verrendis viis non adhibitam, Luto jussit oppleri congesto per milites in prætexta sinum. Sueton. in Vespas. C. 5.

NOTES TO PART II. CANTO III.

140 A Ledger, &c.] The Witch-finder in Suffolk, who, in the Presbyterian times, had a commission to discover witches, of whom (right or wrong) he caused 60 to be hanged within the compass of one year; and, among the rest, the old minister, who had been a painful preacher for many years.

159 x Did he not help the Dutch, &c.] In the beginning of the Civil Wars of Flanders, the common people of Antwerp in a tumult broke open the cathe. dral church, to demolish images and shrines, and did so much mischief in a small time, that Strada writes, there were several Devils seen very busy among them, otherwise it had been impossible.

161 y Sing catches, &c.] This Devil at Mascon delivered all his oracles, like his forefathers, in verse, which he sung to tunes. He made several lampoons upon the Hugonots, and foretold them many things which afterwards came to pass; as may be seen in his Memoirs, written in French.

163 2 Appear'd in divers, &c.] The History of Dr. Dee and the Devil, published by Mer. Casaubon, Isaac Fil. Prebendary of Canterbury, has a large account of all those passages, in which the style of the true and false angels appears to be penned by one and the same person. The Nun of Loudon, in France, and all her tricks, have been seen by many persons of quality of this nation yet living, who have made very good observations upon the French book written on that occasion.

165 a Met with, &c.] A Committee of the Long Parliament, sitting in the King's-house in WoodstockPark, were terrified with several apparitions, the par. ticulars whereof were then the news of the whole nation.

167 b At Sarum, &c.] Withers has a long story, in doggerel, of a soldier in the King's army, who, being a prisoner at Salisbury, and drinking a health

to the Devil upon his knees, was carried away by him through a single pane of glass.

224 c Since old Hodge Bacon, &c.] Roger Bacon, commonly called Friar Bacon, lived in the reign of our Edward I. and, for some little skill he had in the mathematicks, was by the rabble accounted a conjurer, and had the sottish story of the Brazen Head fathered upon him by the ignorant Monks of those days. Robert Grosthead was Bishop of Lincoln in the reign of Henry III. He was a learned man for those times, and for that reason suspected by the Clergy to be a conjurer; for which crime, being degraded by Pope Innocent IV. and summoned to appear at Rome, he appealed to the tribunal of Christ; which our lawyers say is illegal, if not a Præmunire, for offering to sue in a Foreign Court."

313 d Which Socrates, &c.] Aristophanes, in his Comedy of the Clouds, brings in Socrates and Charephon, measuring the leap of a flea from the one's beard to the other's.

404 e Was rais'd by him, &c.] This Fisk was a late famous astrologer, who flourised about the time of Subtile and Face, and was equally celebrated by Ben Jonson.

436 e Unless it be, &c.] This experiment was tried by some Foreign Virtuosos, who planted a piece of ordnance point blank against the Zenith, and having fired it, the bullet never rebounded back again; which made them all conclude that it sticks in the mark: but Des Cartes was of opinion, that it does but hang in the air.

477 f As lately 't was, &c.] This Sedgwick had many persons (and some of quality) that believed in him, and prepared to keep the day of judgment with him, but were disappointed; for which the false prophet was afterwards called by the name of Doomsday Sedgwick.

609 g Your modern Indian, &c.] This compendious new way of magick is affirmed by Monsieur Le Blanc (in his travels) to be used in the East Indies.

627 h Bumbastus kept, &c.] Paracelsus is said to have kept a small Devil prisoner in the pummel of his sword, which was the reason, perhaps, why he was so valiant in his drink. However, it was to better purpose than Hannibal carried poison in his, to dispatch himself if he should happen to be surprised in any great extremity; for the sword would have done the feat alone much better, and more soldierlike; and it was below the honour of so great a commander to go out of the world like a rat.

635 i Agrippa kept, &c.] Cornelius Agrippa had a dog that was suspected to be a spirit, for some tricks he was wont to do beyond the capacity of a dog, as it was thought; but the author of Magia Adamica has taken a great deal of pains to vindicate both the doctor and the dog from the aspersion, in which he has shown a very great respect and kindness for them both.

679 k As Averrhois, &c.] Averrhois Astronomiam propter Excentricos contempsit. Phil. Melancthon in Elem. Phil. p. 781.

691 The Median Emp'ror dreamt his Daughter, &c.] Astyages, King of Media, had this dream of his daughter Mandane, and the interpretation from the Magi; whereof he married her to a Persian of a mean quality, by whom she had Cyrus, who conquered all Asia, and translated the empire from the Medes to the Persians. Herodot. I 1.

697 m When Cæsar, &c.] Fiant aliquando prodigiosi, & longiores Solis Defectus, quales occiso Dictatore Casare & Antoniano Bello, totius Anni Pallore continuo. Phil.

701 n Augustus having, &c.] Divus Augustus lavum sibi prodidit calceum præpostere indutum, qua die seditione Militum prope afflictus est. Idem 1. 2.

709 The Roman Senate, &c.] Romani L. Crasso & C. Mario Coss. Bubone viso orbem lustrabant.

737 P For Anaxagoras, &c.] Anaxagoràs affirmabat Solem candens Ferrum esse, & Peloponneso majorem: Lunam Habitacula in se habere, & Col