[253] Dramatic Miscellanies, vol. iii., chap. 24. Most of the above particulars respecting Hart and Mohun have been gathered from that work. There are scarcely any records of them elsewhere.
[254] Cibber's 'Apology,' ut supra, p. 226.
[255] "March 1st (1671). I thence walked with him through St. James's Parke to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between ... and Mrs. Nellie, as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and ... standing on ye greene walke under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene. Thence the King walked to the Duchess of Cleveland, another lady of pleasure, and curse of our nation."—Evelyn's 'Memoirs,' ut supra, vol. ii., p. 339. It would be curious to know how Mr. Evelyn conducted himself during this time, if he and the King saw one another.
[256] Miscellaneous Works of the Duke of Buckingham and others. 1704, vol. i., p. 34.
[257] The verses are attributed to Etherege; but, from a Scotch rhyme in them of trull and will, are perhaps not his.
[258] History of His own Times, Edin. 1753, vol. i., p. 387.
[259] Tatler, No. 182.
[260] Tatler, No. 188. See also No. 7.
[261] Apology, p. 303.
[262] Baker's Biographia Dramatica, Art. Farquhar, vol. i., p. 155. Faithful Memoirs, &c., of Mrs. Anne Oldfield, by Egerton, p. 76.