p. xxii 1.28 " outburst of vile poetry." See Poems Jrom Sir K. DJs papers, ed. Warner. Rox- burghe Club, 1877. p. xxiii 1. 16 "hermit." The portrait of Digby in this guise, painted by Janssen, in the posses- sion of T. Longueville, Esq., is repro- duced in Mr. Longueville's life of his ancestor. Says Pennant in his Journey Jrom Chester to London, ed. 1782, " I know of no persons who are painted in greater variety than this illustrious pair [Digby and his wife] : probably because they were the finest subjects of the time." p. XXV 1. 3 "duel . . . with a French lord." See the curious little pamphlet, Sir Kenelme Digby^ s Honour Maititained, 1 64 1. p. xxvi 1. I The Observations on Religio Medici, together with the correspondence between Browne and Digby, are often reprinted with the text oi R.M. J^TES 279 p. xxvi 1. 5 "glass-making." See Longueville, pp. 255-6. p. xxix 1. 1 1 Descartes. Des Maizeaux. V^iede Saint- Evremond, pp. 80—6. p. xxxi \. ^ A Late Discourse made in a Solemtie Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier. By Sir K. D., Kt. Rendered faitlifully into English by R. White. 2nd ed., 1658. The original was in French. Longueville gives a loathsome receipt for the Sympathetic Powder from an original in the Ashmolean. "To make a salve yt healeth though a man be go miles off." But vitriol is the only ingredient Digby mentions; and the receipt given by his steward Hartman [see Appendix], and sold by him, is more likely to be Digby's. Of course, there were many claimants to the credit of the invention of sympathetic powders. p. xxxiii 1. 4 "house in Covent Garden." For a brief account of this house, see an article on Hogarth's London in the English Review, February, 1910. p. xxxi v 1.6 "history of the Digby family." This has disappeared. p. xxxiv 1. 13 "Catalogue of the combined collection." Bibliotheca Digbeiana, 1 680. See also Edwards's MeTmirs of Libraries, II, 1 1 8, and Sir K. D. et les Anciens Rapports des Bibliotheques Franpaises avec la Grande Bre- tagne. L. Delisle. 1 892. p. xxxviii 1. 20 Lloyd's Lives of Excellent Personages that suffered for . . . Allegiance to the Soveraigne in the late Intestine Wars, ed. 1 668. p. xliv 1. 10 "remedyfor Bitingof aMadDog." There is a similar receipt in Arcana Fairfaxiana, 28o C^(pTES ed. G. Waddell, 1890, a collection of old medical receipts, etc. of the Fairfax and Cholmely families. "A Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog Published for ye Benefit of Mankind in the Newspapers of 1 74 1 by a Person of Note. . . . N.B. This Medicine has stood a tryal of 50 years Experience, and was never known to fail." p. liii 1. 30 Culpeper's English Physitian, 1 65 3. p. liii 1. 30 N. Culpeper. Herball. p. liii 1. 30 John Gerard. The Historie of Plants, 1 547. p. liii 1. 3 1 A^' m. Coles. Adam in Eden and The Art of Simpling. l6^J and 1 656. To the Reader. p. 3 1. 20 "that old Saw in the Regiment of Health." The Regyment, or a Dyetary of Helth. By Andrew Borde, 1542. (Reprinted by the Early English Text Soc.) Receipts.

AI-modernized reading of the original text

p. xxii 1.28 " outburst of vile poetry." See Poems Jrom Sir K. DJs papers, ed. Warner. Roxburghe Club, 1877. p. xxiii 1. 16 "hermit." The portrait of Digby in this guise, painted by Janssen, in the possession of T. Longueville, Esq., is reproduced in Mr. Longueville's life of his ancestor. Says Pennant in his Journey Jrom Chester to London, ed. 1782, " I know of no persons who are painted in greater variety than this illustrious pair [Digby and his wife] : probably because they were the finest subjects of the time." p. XXV 1. 3 "duel . . . with a French lord." See the curious little pamphlet, Sir Kenelme Digby^ s Honour Maititained, 1 64 1. p. xxvi 1. I The Observations on Religio Medici, together with the correspondence between Browne and Digby, are often reprinted with the text oi R.M. NOTES p. xxvi 1. 5 "glass-making." See Longueville, pp. 255-6. p. xxix 1. 1 1 Descartes. Des Maizeaux. V^iede Saint- Evremond, pp. 80—6. p. xxxi \. ^ A Late Discourse made in a Solemtie Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier. By Sir K. D., Kt. Rendered faitlifully into English by R. White. 2nd ed., 1658. The original was in French. Longueville gives a loathsome receipt for the Sympathetic Powder from an original in the Ashmolean. "To make a salve yt healeth though a man be go miles off." But vitriol is the only ingredient Digby mentions; and the receipt given by his steward Hartman [see Appendix], and sold by him, is more likely to be Digby's. Of course, there were many claimants to the credit of the invention of sympathetic powders. p. xxxiii 1. 4 "house in Covent Garden." For a brief account of this house, see an article on Hogarth's London in the English Review, February, 1910. p. xxxi v 1.6 "history of the Digby family." This has disappeared. p. xxxiv 1. 13 "Catalogue of the combined collection." Bibliotheca Digbeiana, 1 680. See also Edwards's MeTmirs of Libraries, II, 1 1 8, and Sir K. D. et les Anciens Rapports des Bibliotheques Franpaises avec la Grande Bretagne. L. Delisle. 1 892. p. xxxviii 1. 20 Lloyd's Lives of Excellent Personages that suffered for . . . Allegiance to the Soveraigne in the late Intestine Wars, ed. 1 668. p. xliv 1. 10 "remedyfor Bitingof aMadDog." There is a similar receipt in Arcana Fairfaxiana, 28o C^(pTES ed. G. Waddell, 1890, a collection of old medical receipts, etc. of the Fairfax and Cholmely families. "A Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog Published for ye Benefit of Mankind in the Newspapers of 1 74 1 by a Person of Note. . . . N.B. This Medicine has stood a tryal of 50 years Experience, and was never known to fail." p. liii 1. 30 Culpeper's English Physitian, 1 65 3. p. liii 1. 30 N. Culpeper. Herball. p. liii 1. 30 John Gerard. The Historie of Plants, 1 547. p. liii 1. 3 1 A^' m. Coles. Adam in Eden and The Art of Simpling. l6^J and 1 656. To the Reader. p. 3 1. 20 "that old Saw in the Regiment of Health." The Regyment, or a Dyetary of Helth. By Andrew Borde, 1542. (Reprinted by the Early English Text Soc.) Receipts.

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