[20:1] For an account of Flecknoe, see Southey’s Omniana, i. 105. Lamb placed some fine lines of Flecknoe’s at the beginning of the Essay A Quakers’ Meeting.
[24:1] Grosart, vol. iii. p. 175.
[24:2] See preface to Religio Laici, Scott’s Dryden, vol. x. p. 27.
[24:3] Jeremy Collier in his Historical Dictionary (1705) describes Marvell, to whom he allows more space (though it is but a few lines) than he does to Shakespeare, “as to his opinion he was a dissenter.” In Collier’s opinion Marvell may have been no better than a dissenter, but in fact he was a Churchman all his life, and it was Collier who lived to become a non-juror and a dissenter, and a schismatical bishop to boot.
[31:1] Life of Lord Fairfax, by C. R. Markham (1870), p. 365.
[35:1] The fifth edition is dated 1703.
[46:1] Many a reader has made his first acquaintance with Marvell on reading these lines in the Essays of Elia (The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple).
[47:1] Poems and Satires of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols. Routledge, 1905.
CHAPTER III
A CIVIL SERVANT IN THE TIME OF THE COMMONWEALTH