[187] "Life of Lord Clarendon," p. 116.
[188] P. 41, edit. 1719. The stanza which relates particularly to his authorship is the following:—
"But who says he was not
A man of much plot
May repent the false accusation;
Having plotted and penn'd
Six plays, to attend
The Farce of his negotiation."
—Collier.
[189] Query; Lysons says 1684.—Gilchrist.
[190] [Both these plays were printed in 12o, 1641, with verses prefixed by H. Bennet, afterwards the celebrated Earl of Arlington, Robert Waring, and William Cartwright.]
[191] An account of Sir W. Killigrew will be found in Restituta, ii. 130. The three first of his plays here mentioned were published together in 8o in 1664 or 1665, for the title-pages bear both these dates. Pandora was "not approved upon the stage as a tragedy," and therefore the author turned it into a comedy, and Waller wrote some lines upon the change.—Collier.
[192] A play called The Imperial Tragedy has also been assigned to him upon no adequate authority.—Collier.
[193] This play was originally represented wholly by women. See Wright's "Historia Histrionica," 1690, post, and Grainger's "Hist. Engl." iv. On this occasion a Prologue and Epilogue were spoken by Mrs Marshall (of whom see "Memoires de Grammont," p. 202, edit. 4o. Strawberry Hill), which are printed in "Covent Garden Drollery," 1672, p. 3.—Gilchrist.
[194] i.e., The game. Quarry is a term both of hunting and falconry. The allusion here is to the former. Quarrie (as referring to the latter), according to Latham's explanation, "is taken for the fowle which is flowne at, and slaine at any time, especially when young hawks are flowne thereunto."