Page 75. Nescio qua, &c. Ovid. Epistles from Pontus.
Page 76. Pariter, &c. Ovid's Fasti, Book I. Referring to the
happy souls who first looked up to the stars, Ovid suggests that in
like manner they must have lifted their heads above the vices and
the jests of man. Cowley has here turned "locis" into "jocis."
Page 80. Ut nos in Epistolis scribendis adjuvet. That he might
help us in writing letters.
Page 81. Qui quid sit pulchrum, &c. Who tells more fully than
Chrysippus or Crantor what is fair what is foul, what useful and
what not.
Page 92. Swerd of bacon, skin of bacon. First English sweard. So
green sward is green surface covering.
Page 100. The Country Life is a translation from Cowley's own Latin
Poem on Plants.
Page 105. Evelyn had dedicated to Cowley his Kalendarium Hortense.
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