their legs. Ibid., ii, 4, 265.
a man made after supper. Ibid., iii, 2, 332.
Would, Cousin Silence. Ibid., iii, 2, 225.
I did not think. Ibid., v, 3, 40.
in some authority. Ibid., v, 3, 117.
You have here. Ibid., v, 3, 6.
TWELFTH NIGHT
[P. 96.] It aims at the ludicrous. Cf. Hazlitt’s remark in the Characters on “Much Ado About Nothing”: “Perhaps that middle point of comedy was never more nicely hit in which the ludicrous blends with the tender, and our follies, turning round against themselves in support of our affections, retain nothing but their humanity.”
[P. 97.] William Congreve (1670-1729), William Wycherley (1640-1716), Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), the chief masters of Restoration Comedy.