[Footnote 146: 'Panton:' a famous punster.]
[Footnote 147: 'Decker:' Thomas Decker, a dramatic poet of James I.'s reign.]
[Footnote 148: 'Worlds of Misers:' 'The Miser' and 'The Humourists' were two of Shadwell's comedies.]
[Footnote 149: 'Raymond' and 'Bruce:' the first of these is an insipid character in 'The Humourists'; the second, in 'The Virtuoso.']
[Footnote 150: 'Ogleby:' translator of Virgil.]
[Footnote 151: 'Herringman:' Henry Herringman, a bookseller; see
'Life.']
[Footnote 152: 'Love's Kingdom:' this is the name of the only play of
Flecknoe's, which was acted, but miscarried in the representation.]
[Footnote 153: 'Virtuoso:' a play of Shadwell's.]
[Footnote 154: 'Gentle George:' Sir George Etheredge.]
[Footnote 155: 'Alien Sedley:' Sir Charles Sedley was supposed to assist
Shadwell in writing his plays.]