[746] Lambeth Library, 8vo, B-E in fours. Hazlitt, Bibliog. Collections and Notes, ii. 206.
[747] It is included in almost all the Sale Catalogues of private libraries at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century.
[748] Erondell was probably also responsible for numerous other translations from French into English; cp. p. 277, note 2, infra.
[749] Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, 1884, iv. p. 160.
[750] J. Payne Collier, History of English Dramatic Poetry, and Annals of the Stage, 1879, i. pp. 451 sqq.; F. G. Fleay, A Chronicle History of the English Stage, 1890, p. 334.
[751] "Not women but monsters," wrote the Puritan Prynne in his Histriomastrix, 1633, p. 114.
[752] Prynne, op. cit. p. 215.
[753] Payne Collier, op. cit. ii. pp. 2 sqq.; Fleay, op. cit. p. 339.
[754] The former was first acted in France in 1629 and the latter in 1633; cf. Upham, French Influence in English Literature, p. 373.
[755] Scudéry's work is in verse; a king and queen of England figure among the characters. It was first performed in France in 1631.