Chapter XXXII: Act II: Sc. 1

78. ‘_A discipline of humanity._’ Bacon’s Essays, ‘Of Marriage and
Single Life.’

‘_Go! You’re a censorious ill woman._’ ‘Let us begone from this
censorious ill woman.’ _The Plain Dealer_, Act V. Sc. 1.

_The Gentleman Dancing Master._ Produced about 1671, published
in 1673.

_Love in a Wood._ Produced in 1671. It was Wycherley’s first
play.

79. ‘_Had I the tediousness_,’ _etc._ _Much Ado about Nothing_, Act
III. Sc. 5.

_The treatment he received from Pope._ See Elwin and
Courthope’s edition of Pope’s Works, vol. V. 73-5.
Wycherley’s letters to Pope are printed in Appendix I. to
that volume.

_The Provoked Wife._ Produced by Betterton and published in
1697.

_The Relapse._ Produced and published in 1697.

80. _The Confederacy._ Produced and published in 1705.

_This last scene._ _The Confederacy_, Act III. Sc. 2.

81. ‘_It does somewhat smack._’ Cf. ‘My father did something
smack.’ _The Merchant of Venice_, Act II. Sc. 2.

_Old Palmer._ See _ante_, p. 388.

82. ‘_The best company in the world._’ _The Man of Mode_, Act IV.
Sc. 3.

‘_Now, for my part_,’ _etc._ _The Relapse_, Act V. Sc. 5.

‘_Let loose the greyhound_,’ _etc._ See _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 3.

83. ‘_It’s well they’ve got me a husband_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._

‘_A devilish girl at the bottom._’ _The Confederacy_, Act II.
Sc. 1.

‘_Proud to be at the head_,’ _etc._ See _ante_, note to p. 36.

_Garrick’s favourite part._ A portrait of Garrick as Sir John
Brute, by Zoffany, is in the Garrick Club.

_The drunken scene._ See Act IV. Scenes 1 and 3 of _The
Provoked Wife_. When the play was revived in 1725 Vanbrugh
himself changed Sir John Brute’s disguise, and made him
appear before the justice in his wife’s ‘short cloak and
sack.’

84. ‘_Hair-breadth ‘scapes._’ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 3.

‘_Any relish of salvation._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 3.

85. ‘_O’erstep the modesty of nature._’ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_God Almighty’s gentlemen._’ Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_,