Id. ibid. For as Æneas bore his Sire. Eneas was Son of Anchifes and Venus; a Trojan, who after long Travels came into Italy, and after the Death of his Fatherin-Law, Latinus, was made King of Latium, and Reigned 3 Years; his Story is too long to infert here, and therefore I refer you to Virgil's Eneids. Troy being laid in Afhes, he took his Aged Father Anchifes upon his Back, and rescued him from his Enemies: But being too Solicitous for his Son and Houfhold Goods, he loft his Wife Creufa; which Mr. Dryden in his Excellent Tranflation thus expreffeth, 25 Hafe, my Dear Father, (tis no time to What ere befals, your Life shall be my One Death, or one Deliverance we will My Hand fhall lead our little Son, and you, My Faithfull Comfort, fhall our Steps purfue. Who this Arthur was, and whether any ever Reign'd in Britain, has been doubted heretofore, and is by fome to this very Day, However, the Hiftory of him, which makes him one of the Nine Wonders of the World, is a Subject fufficient for the Poet to be Pleasant upon. Idem p. 18. Toledo trufty. The Capital City of New-Caftile in Spain, with an Archbishoprick and Primacy: It was very Famous, amongst other things, for tempering the beft Metal for Swords, as Damafcus was, and perhaps may be ftill. Idem p. 25. As three or four legg'd Oracle, Read the Great Geographical Dictionary, un: der that Word. Idem p. 26. They who would know more of Sir Cornelius Agrippa here meant, may confult the great 0 3 Dictionary. Id. ibid. He Anthropofophus and Floud, Anthropofophus is only a compound Greek Word, which fignifies a Man that is Wife in the Knowledge of Men, and is us'd by fome Anonymous Author to conceal his true Name. Dr. Floud was a fort of an English Rofy-Crucian, whofe Works are Extant, and as Intelligible as thofe of Jacob Behmen. Idem p. 42. 'Tis fung there is a Valiant Mammaluke. No Question but the Rhime to Mammaluke, was meant Sir Samuel Luke, of whom in the Preface. Vid. p. 172. of the foregoing Annotations. Canto II. p. 46. That is to fay, whether Tollutation, Tollutation and Succufation, are only Latin Words for Ambling and Trotting, tho' I believe both were natural amongst the Old Romans; fince I never read, they made ufe of the Tramel, or any other Art to pace their Horses, Idem p. 47. The dire Pharfalian Plain, &c. Pharfalia is a City of Theffaly, Famous for the Battel won by Julius Cafar again Pompey the Great in the Neighbouring Plains, in the 607 Year of Rome; of which read Lucan's Pharfalia. Idem. p. 50. Chiron, that four-legg'd Bard, &c. Chiron, a Centaure Son to Saturn and Phillyris, living in the Mountains, when being much given to Hunting, he became very knowing in the Vertues of Plants, and one of the most Famous Phyficians of his Time. He imparted his Skill to Æfculapius,and was afterwards to Achilles's Governour, until being Wounded by Hercules, and defiring to die, Jupiter placed him in Heaven, where he forms the Sign of Sagittarius or the Archer. Id. Ibid. In Staffordshire, where Virtuous Worth The whole History of this Ancient Ceremony, you may read at large in Dr. Plot's Hiftory of Staffordshire, under the Town Tutbury. Idem. p. 51. Grave as the Emperour of Pegu. For the Hiftory of Pegu, read Mandelfo and Olearius's Travels. Paris Garden in Southwark, took its Name from the Poffeffor. Idem p. 55. Though by Promethean Fire made. Promethean Fire. Prometheus was the Son of Iapetus, and Brother of Atlas, concerning whom the Poets have feign'd, that having firft formed Men of the Earth and Water, he ftole Fire from Heaven to put Life into them; and that having thereby difpleafed Jupiter,he Commanded Vulcan to tie him to Mount Caucafus with Iron Chains, and that a Vultur fhould prey upon his Liver continually; but the Truth of the Story is, That Prometheus was an Aftrologer, and conftant in obferving the Stars upon that Mountain, and that among other things, he found the Art of making Fire, either by the means of a Flint, or by contrating the Sun Beams in a Glafs. Bochart |