[37] "The Songs in Amphitryon, with the Musick. Composed by Mr. Henry Purcell. London: printed by J. Heptinstall for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane. MDCXC."
[38] Dioclesian.
[39] North, in the Memoires of Musick, 1728, mentions Purcell's King Arthur as at that time "unhappily lost."
[40] Round about Piccadilly, by Wheatley, p. 294.
[41] Hawkins's History of Music, vol. ii. p. 753.
[42] See Sir Walter Scott's Life of Dryden.
[43] Hogarth's Memoirs of the Musical Drama, 1838.
[44] Reading and Pate some three years afterwards figured in another kind of Duo; the Post-Boy, June 20th, 1695, has the following paragraph:—"I am informed that the Lord Chamberlain hath been pleased to displace Mr. Pate and Mr. Reading from their places in the Playhouse for being in the late riot at Drury Lane." The riot had occurred at the "Dog Tavern," and in consequence several persons were prosecuted and found guilty; some were fined 500 marks each, but Reading and Pate were fined only twenty marks each; probably their fines were reduced in consideration of their dismissal by the Lord Chamberlain. They were, however, soon afterwards reinstated in their previous appointments.
[45] Nichol's Select Collection of Poems.
[46] In the thirteenth edition published in 1697, the third part has the following heading:—"The art of Descant, or composing musick in parts; made very plain and easie by the late Mr. Henry Purcell."