[952] Lord High Treasurer Cottington, Sir Ed. Hyde, etc.; cp. Diary, Aug. 1 and 18, Sept. 7, 12, 13, Oct. 2, 7, 1649, etc.
[953] Thus the King invited the Prince of Condé to supper at St. Cloud ... "where I saw a famous (tennis) match betwixt Mons. Saumaurs and Colonel Cooke, and so returned to Paris." Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 13, 1649.
[954] Memoirs of Sir John Reresby of Thribergh, Bart., M.P. for York, etc., 1634-1689, ed. J. J. Cartwright, London, 1875, pp. 26, 42 (cp. pp. 359 sqq., supra).
[955] Sir Henry Craike, Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 1911, ii. pp. 321 sqq.
[956] W. Harvey-Jellie, Les Sources du Théâtre anglais à l'époque de la Restauration, Paris, 1906, pp. 37 sqq.
[957] Evelyn visited Waller several times.
[958] Evelyn met Hobbes at Paris in September 1650.
[959] Dennis, Original Letters, familiar, moral and critical, London, 1723, i. p. 215. At a later date he was again in France for reasons of health. The king gave him £500 to pay the expenses of a journey to the South of France. He was at Montpellier from the winter of 1678 to the spring of 1679.
[960] ". . . cette langue dont il savait toutes les plus délicates ressources en grâce, en malice plaisante et en ironie." Cf. Sayous, Histoire de la littérature française à l'étranger.
[961] "Hamilton dans le conte (says Sayous, op. cit.) l'emporte sur Voltaire qui eut été le premier, si au lieu de se jeter dans les allégories philosophiques il s'était abandonné, comme notre Écossais, au plaisir plus innocent de laisser courir son imagination et sa plume."