Dryden's translation.
Page 56. Nam neque divitibus. Horace's Epistles, I., 18.
Page 58. Tankerwoman, "water-bearer, one who carried water from the
conduits."
Page 60. Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander. Domitian is said to
have given a consulship to his horse Incitatus.
Page 60. The glory of Cato and Aristides. See the parallel lives
in Plutarch.
Page 64. O fortunatos nimium, &c. Men all too happy, and they knew
their good.
Page 70. Hinc atque hinc. From Virgil's AEneid, Book I.
Page 75. Mr. Hartlib . . . IF THE GENTLEMAN BE YET ALIVE. Samuel
Hartlib, a public-spirited man of a rich Polish family, came to
England in 1640. He interested himself in education and other
subjects, as well as agriculture. In 1645 he edited a treatise of
Flemish Agriculture that added greatly to the knowledge of English
farmers, and thereby to the wealth of England. He spent a large
fortune among us for the public good. Cromwell recognised his
services by a pension of 300 pounds a year, which ceased at the
Restoration, and Hartlib then fell into such obscurity that Cowley
could not say whether he were alive or no.
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