A friend of your Governor
Note by H Craik to The Epistle of the Tale of a Tub

i. e. Sir William Temple, whose complimentary references to Phalaris, in his Treatise of Ancient Learn ing, were the object of Bentley's attack in the Dissertation appended to the second edition of Wotton's Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning. Temple is described as a friend of Time, because it is assumed that his fame will be immortal.