[337] "Lives of the Poets ... to the time of Dean Swift," London. 1753, 5 vols. 12mo; vol. ii. p. 164.
[338] "Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-4," ed. Parry, London, 1888, 8vo. Letter ix. p. 60; Letter x. p. 64; Letter xxiv. p. 124, year 1653.
[339] May 13, 1666; Feb. 24, 1667-8; Nov. 16, 1668.
[340] Letter xxxiv. p. 162. Year 1653.
[341] "Parthenissa, that most fam'd romance," London, 1654.
[342] He assisted her in getting her translation of Corneille's "Pompée" represented at Dublin with embellishments, consisting in dances, music, songs, &c. He was born in 1621 and was held in great esteem both by Cromwell and by the Stuarts. He left dramas and other works and died in 1679.
[343] "British Novelists," by David Masson, Cambridge, 1859, 8vo. p. 72.
[344] Letter LI. p. 236, year 1654.
[345] P. 54. Part of the tale, viz.: the adventures of Brandon, supplied Otway with the plot of his "Orphan" (performed 1680).
[346] "Pandion and Amphigenia, or the history of the coy lady or Thessalia adorned with sculptures," London, 1665, 8vo. Crowne died about 1703; his dramatic works have been published in four vols., 1873.