Chapter XXXI: Canto III

Note. ‘_Thus stopp’d_,’ _etc._ _Hudibras_, Part I. Canto III.
951-2. ‘_And setting his right foot_,’ _etc._ I. III. 82-4.
‘_At this the knight_,’ _etc._ II. II. 541-4. ‘_The knight
himself_,’ _etc._ I. II. 1123-6. ‘_And raised_,’ _etc._ I.
II. 95-6. ‘_And Hudibras_,’ _etc._ II. II. 661-2. ‘_Both
thought_,’ _etc._ II. II. 577-90.

67. _The burlesque description_, _etc._ _Hudibras_, Part I. Canto
II. 1129, _et seq._

‘_As when an owl_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ I. III. 403-6.

‘_The queen of night_, _etc._ _Ibid._ III. I. 1321-6.

_Butler’s Remains. The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of
Mr. Samuel Butler_, not published till 1759.

‘_Reduce all tragedy_,’ _etc._ Butler, _Upon Critics_, 17-42.

68. _Etherege._ Sir George Etherege (1635?-1691) wrote three
comedies, _The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub_ (1664),
_She Would if she Could_ (1667), and _The Man of Mode, or Sir
Fopling Flutter_ (1676). The last was a great favourite of
Hazlitt’s, and is constantly referred to by him.

‘_Tames his wild heart_,’ _etc._ _Much Ado About Nothing_, Act
III. Sc. 1.

‘_Like the morn_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, V. 310-11.

_The Wild Gallant._ First performed February 1662-3. See Act
II. Sc. 1.

69. _Sir Martin Mar-all._ Produced in 1667, and founded on a
translation by the Duke of Newcastle of Molière’s
_L’Étourdi_. _The Busy Body_, by Mrs. Centlivre, appeared in
1709.

_Otway’s comedies._ _The Cheats of Scapin_ (adapted from
Molière) (1677), _Friendship in Fashion_ (1678), _The
Soldier’s Fortune_ (1681), and _The Atheist_ (1684).

_Rehearsal._ The Duke of Buckingham’s (1628-1687) _The
Rehearsal_, first published in 1672.

_Knight of the Burning Pestle._ Written about 1611 and
published in 1613.

_Sir Robert Howard._ _The Committee_, by Sir Robert Howard
(1626-1698), was produced in 1662. Thomas Knight’s _The
Honest Thieves_, an adaptation, was acted at Covent Garden in
1797.

‘_Mitigated into courtiers_ [companions],’ _etc._ Burke,
_Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_,
ed. Payne, II. 90).

_The great bed of Ware._ Referred to by Shakespeare (_Twelfth
Night_, Act III. Sc. 2), and now at Rye House.

LECTURE IV. ON WYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, VANBRUGH, AND FARQUHAR

70. ‘_Graceful ornament_,’ _etc._ ‘Nobility is a graceful
ornament,’ etc. Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution in
France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 164).

_Waller’s Sacharissa._ Lady Dorothy Sidney, eldest daughter of
the second Earl of Leicester.

_Wycherley_, _etc._ William Wycherley (1640?-1715), William
Congreve (1670-1730), Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), and
George Farquhar (1678-1707). Leigh Hunt in 1840 published an
edition of the dramatic works of all these writers, with
biographical and critical notices. With this lecture compare
Lamb’s famous essay ‘On the Artificial Comedy of the last
Century,’ contributed to _The London Magazine_, April 1822.

71. ‘_Whose jewels_,’ _etc._ Collins’s Ode, _The Manners_, 55-6.

_In the dedication of one of his plays._ Probably _The Way of
the World_, though the dedication hardly bears out Hazlitt’s
account of it.

_Love for Love._ 1695.

_The Way of the World._ 1700.

_Munden’s Foresight._ See _A View of the English Stage_,
_ante_, p. 278.

72. ‘_I never valued_,’ _etc._ _Love for Love_, Act V. Sc. 12.

‘_To divest him_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 7.

_The short scene with Trapland._ _Ibid._ Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_More misfortunes_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act I. Sc. 9.

‘_Sisters every way._’ _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 9.

‘_Nay, if you come to that_,’ _etc._ Ibid.

_The Old Bachelor_, brought out in January, 1692-3; _The Double
Dealer_, in November 1693.

‘_Dying Ned Careless._’ _The Double Dealer_, Act IV. Sc. 9.

‘_Love’s thrice reputed_ [repured] _nectar._’ _Troilus and
Cressida_, Act III. Sc. 2.

73. ‘_Ah! idle creature._’ _The Way of the World_, Act IV. Sc. 5.

‘_Like Phœbus_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act IV. Sc. 4.

‘_Come then_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Moral Essays_, Epistle II., 17-20.

‘_If there’s delight_,’ _etc._ _The Way of the World_, Act III.
Sc. 12.

‘_Beauty the lover’s gift_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act II. Sc. 5.

74. ‘_Nature’s own sweet_,’ _etc._ _Twelfth Night_, Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_Wild wit_,’ _etc._ Gray, Ode _On a distant Prospect of Eton
College_, 46.

‘_Blazons herself._’

‘Thou divine nature, how thyself thou blazon’st
In these two princely boys!’

_Cymbeline_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

_Mrs. Abington’s Millamant._ Frances Abington (1737-1815)
practically retired from the stage in 1790, though she
re-appeared for a season as late as 1799.

_Declaim._ Disclaim.

‘_He’s but his half-brother._’ _The Way of the World_, Act I.
Sc. 6.

75. _The description of the ruins_, _etc._ _The Mourning Bride_,
Act II. Sc. 3. For Johnson’s praise of this passage see
Boswell’s _Life_ (ed. G. B. Hill, II. 85).

‘_Be every day_,’ _etc._ _The Mourning Bride_, Act I. Sc. 3.

76. _Bolingbroke’s entry into London._ _Richard II._, Act V. Sc. 2.

_Country Wife._ Produced in 1672 or 1673, published in 1675,
this play was partly founded on Molière’s _L’École des
Femmes_ and _L’École des Maris_.

_Agnes._ In Molière’s _L’École des Femmes_.

77. _Moody._ In Garrick’s adaptation _The Country Girl_ (1766).

‘_With him a wit_,’ _etc._ ‘A wit to me is the greatest title
in the world.’ _The Country Wife_, Act I. Sc. 1.

_The Plain Dealer._ Produced in 1674, published in 1677. The
passage in which Wycherley refers to _The Country Wife_ is in