APPENDIX V. 



HISTORICAL NOTES. 



> This song beginning, " Forth from my dark and dismal cell," 

 with the music to it, set by Henry Lawes, is printed in a book en- 

 titled " Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues, to sing to the Theorbo, 

 Lute, and Bass Viol," folio, 1675; an ^ in Playford's "Antidote 

 against Melancholy," 8vo., 1669; and also in Percy's "Reliques 

 of Ancient English Poetry." H. 



b Ulysses Aldrovandus, a great physician and naturalist of Bo- 

 logna. He wrote thirteen volumes folio on subjects of natural 

 history, including one, " De Piscibus," published at Frankfort, 1640. 

 -H. 



Leonard Lessius, a learned Jesuit, professor of divinity in the 

 College of Jesuits at Louvain. He was born at Antwerp, 1554, 

 and became famous in divinity, civil law, mathematics, physic, and 

 history ; he wrote several theological tracts, and a book entitled 

 " Hygiasticon, seu vera ratio valetudinis bonae, et vitoe ad extremam 

 senectutem conservandae." From this tract of Lessius it is probable 

 the text in the passage is cited. He died 1623. His " Hygiasticon " 

 was translated by Timothy Smith, Camb., 1634. H. 



d These verses were written at or near the time when the liturgy 

 was abolished by an ordinance of Parliament, and while it was 

 agitating, as a theological question, whether of the two, preconceived 



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