51: Who else can be meant by the 'Frenchman's Helicon' than Montaigne? He is satirically called 'Helicon,' as he is taken down from his height in 'Hamlet.'
52: In meaning alike to Jonson's: 'Counting all old doctrine heresie.'
60: Act i. Sc. 5 in _Hamlet_; _Malcontent_, act iii. sc. 3.
61: Perhaps an allusion to the conclusion of _Hamlet_, when the State falls into the hands of a soldier (Fortinbras). --Soldaten-Religion, keine Religion ('a soldier's religion, no religion'), as the old German saying is.
62: Rochelle-Churchman--that is, Huguenot.
63: See Bacon's Essay, _Of Atheism_: 'All that impugn a received religion or superstition are by the adverse part branded with the name of Atheists.'
66: In _Eastward Hoe_, his most delicate poetical production, Ophelia, is most abominably parodied--'rudely strumpeted.'