[67] See Miles, The Influence of Moliere on Restoration Comedy, 1910: published after this paper was written.
[68] Celadon, in Dryden’s Marriage a la Mode, enters marriage with the distinct expectation that his wife will be untrue to him.
[69] At the Restoration ten of the actors were attached to the household establishment as the king’s menial servants, and ten yards of scarlet cloth with an amount of lace were allowed them for liveries. This connection lasted until Anne’s time. Genest, II, 362.
[70] Elizabeth Woodbridge, Studies in Jonson’s Comedies, Yale Studies in English, IV.
[71] The Development of Sentimental Comedy in the Eighteenth Century, Anglia, XXX.
[72] The Theatre, II, 511. By John Dennis. His temper and prejudice often destroy the value of his writings as impartial evidence, but in this case he is right.
[73] The Man of Mode, V, ii.
[74] The Funeral, I, i.
[75] Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies, III, 412.
[76] Ibid., III, 409.