Idem p. 161. Difparata, are things feparate and unlike; from the Latin Word Difparo. Some SOME Additional ANNOTATIONS, TO THE FIRST PART. Canto I. p. 1. When Civil Dudgeon, &c. Udgeon. Who made the Alterations in the laft Editions of this Poem, I know not, but they are certainly fometimes for the worfe; and I cannot believe the Author would have chang'd a Word fo proper in that Place, as Dudgeon is, for that of Fury, as it is in the laft Editions To take in Dudgeon, is inwardly to refent fome Injury or Affront, a fort of Grumbling in the Gizard, and what is previous to Actual Fury. Idem p. 4. To make fome think him Circumcis'd. Here again is an Alteration without any Amendment, for the following Lines, And truly fo be was perhaps, Not as a Profelyte, but for Claps. Are Are thus changed; And truly fo, perhaps he was, "Tis many a The Heathens had an odd Opinion, and gave a ftrange Reafon why Mofes impos'd the Law of Circumcifion on the Jews, which, how untrue foever, I will give the Learned Reader an Account of, without Tranflation, as I find it in the Annotations upon Horace, wrote by my Worthy and Learned Friend Mr. William Baxter, the great Reftorer of the Ancient, and Promoter of Modern Learning. Hor. Sat. 9. Sermon. Lib. I. Curtis; Quia pelliculâ imminuti funt: quia Mofes Rex Judæorum, cujus Legibus reguntur, negligentia quaeis medicinalitèr exfectus est, & ne folus effet notabilis, omnes circumcidi voluit. Vet. Schol. Vocem φιμωθείς quæ infcitâ Librarii exciderat repofuimus ex conjecturâ, uti & medicina liter exfectus pro medicinalis effectus quæ nihili erant. Quis miretur ejufmodi convicia homini Epicureo atque Pagano excidiffe? Jure igitur Henrico Glareano Diaboli Organum videtur. Etiam Satyrâ Quinta hæc habet; Constat omnia miracula certâ ratione fieri, de quibus Epicurei prudentiffimè dfputant. Cerberus A Name which Poets gave a Dog. with 3 Heads, which they feigu'd DoorKeeper of Hell, that carefs'd the Unfortunate Souls fent thither, and devour'd them that would get out again; yet Hercules ty'd him up, and made him follow. This Dog with 3 Heads denotes the Paft, the Prefent, and the Time to come; which receive, and as it were devour all things. Hercules got the better of him, which fhews that Heroick Actions are always Victorious over Time, because they are prefent in the Memory of Pofterity. Idem P. 7. Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater. Tycho Brake, was an Eminent Danish Mathematician. Quer. in Collier's Dictionary, or elsewhere. Id. ibid. Whatever Sceptick could enquire for. Sceptick. Pyrrho was the chief of Sceptick Philofophers, and was at first, as Apollodorus faith, a Painter, then became the Hearer of Drifo, and at laft the Difciple of Anaxagoras, whom he followed into India to fee the . Gymno Gymnofophifts. He pretended that Men did nothing but by Cuftoin; that there was neither Honcfty, nor Difhonefty, Juftice nor Injuftice, Good nor Evil. He was very Solitary, lived to be 90 Years Old, was highly Efteemed in his Country, and created Chief Prieft. He lived in the Time of Epicurus and Theophraftus, about the 120 Olympiad. His Followers were call'd Pyrrhonians, befides which they were named the Ephecticks, and Aphoreticks, but more generally Scepticks. This Sect made their chiefeft Good to confift in a Sedateness of Mind, exempt from all Paffions; in regulating their Opinions and moderating their Paflions, which they cal led Attaxia and Metriopathia, and in fufpending their Judgment in regard of Good or Evil, Truth or Falfhood, which they called Epochi. Sixtus Empiricus, who liv'd in the Second Century under the Emperour Antoninus Pius, writ ten Books against the Mathematicians, or Aftrologers, and three of the Pyrrhonian Opinion. The Word is derived from the Greek onirlews, quod eft, confiderare, speculari. Idem p. 8. In School-Divinity as able As he that hight Irrefragable, &c. Here again is another Alteration of three or four Lines, as I think, for the worfe... Some |