[1] See his Preface to his version of part of Virgil's second _Aeneid_.
[2] Whateley's _Reminiscences of Bishop Copleston_, p. 6.
[3] See _Late Stuart Tracts_.
[4] Wood's _Life and Times_, Clark's Ed. vol. ii. p. 240.
[5] See, for example, _Diary_, February 16th, 1668: 'Much discourse
about the bad state of the Church, and how the clergy are come to
be men of no worth in the world, and, as the world do now generally
discourse, they must be reformed.'
[6] For this information I am indebted to Mr. Paul Leicester Ford's
interesting monograph on the sayings of Poor Richard, prefixed to
his selections from the _Almanack_, privately printed at Brooklyn
in 1890.
[7] Introduction to his selections from the _Almanack_.