[21] Tom's Coffee House, 17, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, on the north side, over against Button's. See Guardian, No. 71.
[22] Richard Lucas, D.D. (1648-1715), wrote, among other things, The Enquiry after Happiness, and Practical Christianity. The latter, published in 1700, was afterwards referred to in the Guardian, No. 63, and there are quotations from both works in Steele's Ladies' Library, 1714.
[23] Daniel Purcell composed music for these verses.
[24] Henry Lawes, the friend of Milton, and his associate in the production of Comus, died in 1662.
[25] Slippers.
[26] Gildon suggests that this should be "premises"; but the word was not altered in later editions of the play.
[27] It is interesting to compare the ensuing dialogue with similar scenes in Sheridan's School for Scandal.
[28] Budgell refers to this scene in a paper in the Spectator (No. 506), on happiness in the married state.
[29] Daniel Purcell composed music for this song.
[30] In the Lay Monastery, No. 9 (December 4th, 1713), Blackmore dwelt on the fine touches of humanity in the part of Trusty in this play. He said this passage was too well known on the stage to need transcribing: "This is not only nature, but nature of the most beautiful kind; or, to borrow Plautus's own remark, by the representation of such plays even good men may be made better."