¹ See William D. Templeman, “Some Commendatory Verses by George Wither”, ? & Q, cixxxiii (1942), 365 ff.; my George Wither (unpublished dissertation in the Harvard College Library, 1928), chap. 15; and Joseph Hunter, “Chorus Vatum” (B.M. Add. MS 24,491; photographic reproduction in the Yale Univ. Library), v, 26, 55. Most of the titles are also given in Sir Sidney Lee's article on Wither in the DNB.

² Reproduced here by kind permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. They are written on the (?a) blank leaf preceding the address “To the Reader” in the STC 25900b copy of the Emblems. Although the transcript is intended to follow the original spelling and punctuation faithfully except for the long s, some of the commas are so faint, and some of what may be commas are in such odd places, that I am not sure of complete accuracy. Written in an entirely different hand across the margin are two names, probably of later owners of the book: William Challoner and Peyton Cole. Both names seem to be in the same seventeenth-century hand.

³ John and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part ? (Cambridge, 1924), iii, 423; one or two facts are from G. F. Matthews (ed.), Year Books of Probate from 1630, 8 vols. (1902 ff.), Vol. ii, part 2, p. 115; Vol. vi, part 2, p. 136; Sentences and Complete Index Nominum, p. 70; William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2nd ed. (London, 1878), i, 168-9.