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_He somewhere prides himself_, _etc._ In the dedication of _The
Inconstant_.

_The Trip to the Jubilee._ _The Constant Couple; or, a Trip to
the Jubilee_, produced in 1700.

85. _Mr. Burke’s courtly and chivalrous observation._ ‘That
chastity of honour ... under which vice itself lost half its
evil, by losing all its grossness.’ _Reflections on the
Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 89).

86. ‘_Now, dear madam_,’ _etc._ _Sir Harry Wildair_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

88. _The dialogue between Cherry and Archer._ See _The Beaux’
Stratagem_ (produced 1707), Act II. Sc. 3.

89. _The Recruiting Officer._ 1706.

_Catastrophe of this play._ See Farquhar’s Dedication.

_Love and a Bottle_, 1699; _The Twin Rivals_, 1702.

_Farquhar’s Letters._ Originally published in 1702 under the
title of ‘Love and Business.’

_Dennis’s Remarks_, _etc._ Dennis’s _Remarks upon Cato_
appeared in 1713.

_His View of the English Stage._ Jeremy Collier’s _Short View
of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage_
(1697-8).

90. ‘_Shews vice_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘To show virtue her own feature,
scorn her own image.’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Denote a foregone conclusion._’ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

_Colley Cibber’s Life_, _etc._ Cf. the second essay ‘On Actors
and Acting’ in _The Round Table_, vol. I. p. 156.

91. ‘_Let no rude hand_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _Ellen Irwin_, St. 7.

‘_Die and leave the world no copy._’ _Twelfth Night_, Act I.
Sc. 5.

LECTURE V. ON THE PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS

‘_The proper study_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Essay on Man_, II. 2.

‘_Comes home to the business_,’ _etc._ Bacon, dedication of the
_Essays_.

‘_Quicquid agunt homines_,’ _etc._ These words of Juvenal
(_Sat._ I. 85-6) formed the motto of the first 40 numbers of
_The Tatler_.

‘_Holds the mirror_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_The act_ [art] _and practic part_,’ _etc._ _Henry V._, Act I.
Sc. 1.

92. ‘_‘The web of our life_,’ _etc._ _All’s Well that Ends Well_,