Maggots, or, Poems on several subjects, never before handled by a schollar.

NOTES.

(a)

[The Nose of Zara's Dowzabel.]

Vid.—The famous and renowned History of Don Zaradel Fogo;—the Lady of whose best Affections, (a piece of purtenance as necessary to a Knight Errant, as Mambrino's Helmet, or the Parallel of this Lady [Dulcinea de'l Fobo∣so] to Don Quixot) whose Damsel that had wofully besmitten the gentle Knight, was, after all the Parentheses, Yclept—Dowzabella,—Of whom the Poet thus,

"—Whose gallant gray Eyes, like Stars in the Skies, "Denoted, &c.

(b)

[Bake't on thy n'own dear Granny's Wemm.]

—A Scotch Oven.—A Traveller eating some

Cake on the Road in Scotland, complain'd 'twas not well bake't: 'Twas reply'd, that was im∣possible; for 't had been all night baking upon the Hostess's warm Wemm.

(c)

—[Thy goggling Egg-like Eyes [Like those in Mahomet's Paradice.]

Among the other pleasures in the Heaven of his own building, Mahomet's Alcoran promi∣ses the Mussal-man Bed-fellows with Eyes as big as Eggs; esteemed as great a piece of beau∣ty, it seems, by the Asiatick's, as great Lips by most of the Africans.

(d)

[A Mouth which should with Mopsa's vye] Altho' Pamela's self stood by.]

See the Description of charming Mopsa, in an ingenious drolling Poem at the End of Sir Philip Sidney.

(e)

[Lips which like Paris-Casements shew, When opening with a Guard•• vou'z!]

Such as walk late at Paris, and when the Windows open with that sound, avoid not in time, will soon, by their bounteous benevolence, smell out the meaning of the Allusion here.

(f)

[Not Western Civet half so sweet.]

Paracelsus is reported, (with a great deal of washing you may think) to have reduced no better nor worse than a Sir—an't please ye, into an excellent Perfume—Balsamum Apo∣plecticum, but Assa foetida to't,—and after∣wards christen'd it by the cleanlier name of Zi∣betum Occidentale.

(g)

[When Atoms were in Altitude.]

Willis in his Book de Fermentatione, gives that account of Putrefaction of Bodies; He says, the blood, &c. ferments, and the Particles are highly agitated,—(and a great deal more, which, if you ha'n't enough for your money, you shall have in the next Edition.)