Alan Rudrum's brief 1972 note in Notes and Queries is a single-page source identification, documenting a passage in Book I of the De occulta philosophia as the source for Henry Vaughan's poem "The Tempest" from Silex Scintillans (1650). The note is a companion piece to Judson's 1926 article on "The Ass" and adds another specific data point to the documentation of Agrippa's influence on Henry Vaughan.

"The Tempest" is a meditation on the turmoil of the visible world against the backdrop of divine peace, using the image of the storm as both a literal meteorological phenomenon and a figure for the disorder of human passion and learning. Rudrum shows that the specific natural-philosophical language Vaughan uses to characterize the storm — the conflict of elemental powers, the role of stellar and planetary influences in producing meteorological disturbances, the underlying divine order that remains unaffected by the visible disorder — corresponds closely to Agrippa's treatment of meteorology and elemental magic in Book I.

Together with Judson (1926) and William Newman (1982), this article contributes to a picture of Agrippa's influence on the Vaughan brothers that is more specific and better documented than the vague claims of "hermetic influence" that appeared in earlier literary scholarship. Henry Vaughan engaged with Agrippa's work at the level of specific arguments and images — the meteorological theory, the ass figure, probably others — rather than merely absorbing a general hermetic atmosphere.