[ [253] "Life of Betterton," p. 16.
[ [254] Downes expressly mentions her as Mrs. Betterton for Camilla [should be Portia], in the "Adventures of Five Hours," 1663; and she also acted by that name, a few months after, in the "Slighted Maid." This error originated with the "Biographia Britannica," but Mr. Jones, the late slovenly editor of the book alluded to, had ample means to correct it. (B.)
[ [255] "You'll have Pinkethman and Bullock helping out Beaumont and Fletcher."—Tatler, No. 89.
[ [256] "Tatler," No. 201.
[ [257] "Dramatic Miscellanies," vol. ii. p. 133.
[ [258] "Dramatic Miscellanies," vol. iii. p. 465.
[ [259] It is supposed that she was engaged in a tender intercourse with Farquhar, and was the "Penelope" of his amatory correspondence. She lived successively with Arthur Mainwaring, one of the most accomplished characters of his age, and General Churchill; by each of whom she had a son.
[ [260] This fact is firmly denied in Cibber's "Lives of the Poets," and with a pointed reference to Johnson's admission of it.—Vol. v. p. 33.
[ [261] Savage, however, was not silent; though he abstained from putting his name to the poem, he indisputably wrote upon Mrs. Oldfield's death. It is preserved in Chetwood's "History."
[ [262] What can be more ridiculous than the following anecdote?