[493] Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, passim.
[494] Pepys: Diary, Dec. 7, 1660; Feb. 10, 1661; May 12, 1666; Nov. 16, 1668; May 5, 1669.
[495] The Ladies' Calling, part II, section II.
[496] Shadwell, Thomas: Bury-Fair, Act III, Sc. 1.
[497] Steele, Richard: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplished Fools (1705).
[498] Urganda was an enchantress in the Amadis and Palmerin romances.
[499] Musidorus, in Sir P. Sidney's Arcadia, is the Prince of Thessaly, and in love with Pamela.
[500] Parthenissa was the heroine of a romance of that name by Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, the first two parts of which appeared in 1651.
[501] Statira, in Cassandra, was the widow of Alexander the Great, and the daughter of Darius. She married Oroondates after many difficulties had been overcome.
[502] Chambers, in Traditions of Edinburgh (1869), says that Allan Ramsay in 1725 set up "a circulating library, whence he diffused plays and other books of fiction among the people of Edinburgh. It appears from some private notes of the historian Wodrow that, in 1728, the magistrates, moved by some meddling spirits, took alarm at the effect of this kind of reading on the minds of youth, and made an attempt to put it down, but without effect."