Chapter VIII: Act I: , sc. ii. In the novel the heroine is shut up by a miserly hunks of

an uncle to force her into a detested mercenary match with his son. In the play the mistress is the wife of the old and jealous keeper of the asylum.

[9] Preface to _The Mercenary Lover_, (1726).

[10] _The Rash Resolve_, (1724).

[11] _The Double Marriage_, (1726).

[12] Lodge's _Rosalynde, ed._ E.C. Baldwin, p. 19. _Philidore and Placentia_ (1727), p. 12.

[13] Miss C.E. Morgan, _The Novel of Manners_, (1911), 100.

[14] A companion-piece to the third edition of _The Mercenary Lover_, (1728).

[15] A companion-piece to _The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress_.

[16] _Monthly Review_, XXXVIII, 412, May, 1768. _Clementina; or the History of an Italian Lady, who made her Escape from a Monastery,_ etc.

[17] _Critical Review_, XXV, 59.

[18] In both editions is advertised "Persecuted Virtue: or, the Cruel Lover. A True Secret History, Writ at the Request of a Lady of Quality," which was advertised also in the _Daily Post_, 28 Nov. 1728. I have not found a copy.

[19] An anonymous poem prefixed to Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd's _The Happy Unfortunate; or, the Female Page_ (1737) testifies to Mrs. Haywood's reputation in the following terms:

"Yeild [_sic_] Heywood yeild, yeild all whose tender Strains,
Inspire the Dreams of Maids and lovesick Swains;
Who taint the unripen'd Girl with amorous Fire,
And hint the first faint Dawnings of Desire:
Wing each Love-Atom, that in Embryo lies,
And teach young Parthenissa's Breasts to rise.
A new Elisa writes," etc., etc.