FOOTNOTES:

[106] See on the subject Sir Sidney Lee, French Renaissance in England; Upham, French Influence in English Literature, Charlanne, L'influence française en Angleterre au XVII^e Siècle.

[107] Scornful Lady, Act I. Sc. 1.

[108] Chalmers, English Poets, v. p. 506.

[109]

"Et Gallice linguam sonat Britannicam,
Et Gallice omnem, præter unam Gallicam,
Nam Gallicam solam sonat Britannice."
Thomæ Mori Lucubrationes (Basil, 1563), p. 209.

[110] Dialogues de l'orthografe, p. 60 (1550).

[111] State Papers, Dom., Eliz. xix. No. 35; see also The Travels of Nicander Nucius (Camden Soc.), p. 13; Paul Jove, Descriptio Britanniæ, Venice, 1548. "Aulæ et foro Gallicus sermo familiaris."

[112] The Coxcomb, Act IV. Sc. 1 (1610)

[113] Six Court Comedies, 1632.

[114] Mauger, French Grammar, pp. 189, 217, 234.

[115] Butler, On our Ridiculous Imitation of the French.

[116] Bury Fair, Act ii. Sc. 1.

[117] Marriage à la Mode, Act iii. Sc. 1.

[118] Etheredge, Man of Mode, Act ii. Sc. 1.

[119] Virtuoso, Act i. Sc. 1.

[120] True Widow, Act ii. Sc. 1.

[121] Eastward Hoe, Act ii. Sc. 1 (1605).

[122] City Madam, Act i. Sc. 1 (1632).

[123] Characters, p. 144 (1614).

[124] State Papers, Dom., 1665-1666, p. 481.

[125] Butler, op. cit.

[126] Spectator, No. 277.

[127] Hudibras, iii. 923.

[128] "Put about a cup of ale, is this not better than your foolish French kickshaw claret."—Shadwell, Epsom-Wells, Act i. Sc. 1.

[129] True Widow, Act i. Sc. 1.

[130] "How can you breathe in a room where there's grease frying? Advise My Lady to burn wax lights."—Man of Mode, Act iv. Sc. 1.

[131] Characters, pp. 419, 424, 469.

[132] See Evelyn, Diary, 18th-30th October 1666; Pepys, Diary, 15th-17th October, 22nd November 1666; Miège, New State of England, ii. p. 38; State Papers, Dom., 1666, p. 191.

[133] Ascham, The Schole-master, 1570, pp. 26 ssq.; Nash, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1587 (Works, ii. p. 300)

[134] Beaumont and Fletcher, Little French Lawyer, Act i. Sc. 1.

[135] Savile Correspondence, p. 143.

[136] Etheredge, Man of Mode, Act iv. Sc. 2.

[137] Lettres, Mémoires et Instructions de Colbert, v. p. 322.

[138] King, Life and Letters of Locke, p. 83.

[139] Clarke and Foxcroft, Life of Burnet, p. 210.