[Footnote 308: "The English Poets," Waller, VIII. 45.] [Footnote 309: Ibid.] [Footnote 310: "English Poets," VII. 237.] [Footnote 311: Ibid. 236-237.] [Footnote 312: Etherege's "Sir Fopling Flutter"; Wycherley's "The Gentleman Dancing-master," I. 2.] [Footnote 313: From 1672 to 1726.] [Footnote 314: Onuphre, in La Bruyère's "Caractères," ch. XIII. de la Mode; Begears, in Beaumarchais's "La Mère Coupable."] [Footnote 315: Consultations of Sganarelle in the "Médecin Malgré Lui."] [Footnote 316: Amongst women, Éliante, Henriette, Élise, Uranie, Élmire.] [Footnote 317: Compare the admirable tact and coolness of Éliante, Henriette, and Élmire.] [Footnote 318: Dryden boasts of this. With him, we always find a complete comedy grossly amalgamated with a complete tragedy.] [Footnote 319: Vanbrugh, "Confederacy," II. 1.] [Footnote 320: Wycherley, "The Country Wife," V. 4.] [Footnote 321: Vanbrugh, "Relapse," II. end.] [Footnote 322: Ibid.] [Footnote 323: She says to Maskwell, her lover: "You want but leisure to invent fresh falsehood, and soothe me to a fond belief of all your fictions; but I will stab the lie that's forming in your heart, and save a sin, in pity to your soul."--Congreve, "Double Dealer," V. 17.] [Footnote 324: Farquhar, "The Beaux Stratagem," II. 1.] [Footnote 325: Vanbrugh, "Provoked Wife," V. 6.] [Footnote 326: Vanbrugh, "Provoked Wife," III. 2.] [Footnote 327: Ibid. V. 2.] [Footnote 328: The valet Rasor says to his master: "Come to your kennel, you cuckoldy drunken sot you."--Ibid.] [Footnote 329: Vanbrugh's "Relapse," III. 2.] [Footnote 330: Ibid.] [Footnote 331: Vanbrugh's "Relapse," III. 2.] [Footnote 332: Ibid. III. 5.] [Footnote 333: Ibid.] [Footnote 334: Ibid. V. 5.] [Footnote 335: Ibid. III. 4.] [Footnote 336: Vanbrugh's "Relapse," III. 4.] [Footnote 337: Ibid. IV. 1.] [Footnote 338: Ibid. IV. 4. The character of the nurse is excellent. Tom Fashion thanks her for the training she has given Hoyden: "Alas, all I can boast of is, I gave her pure good milk, and so your honour would have said, an you had seen how the poor thing sucked it.--Eh! God's blessing on the sweet face on't! how it used to hang at this poor teat, and suck and squeeze, and kick and sprawl it would, till the belly on't was so full, it would drop off like a leech." This is good, even after Juliet's nurse in Shakespeare.] [Footnote 339: Vanbrugh's "Relapse," IV. 6.] [Footnote 340: Ibid. V. 5.] [Footnote 341: Ibid. IV. 1.] [Footnote 342: Vanbrugh's "Relapse," V. 5.] [Footnote 343: See also the character of a young stupid blockhead, Squire Humphrey. (Vanbrugh's "Journey to London.") He has only a single idea, to be always eating.] [Footnote 344: Wycherley's Hippolita; Farquhar's Silvia.] [Footnote 345: Farquhar's "Beaux Stratagem," IV. 1] [Footnote 346: Vanbrugh's "Provoked Wife," III. 3] [Footnote 347: Ibid. V. 2.] [Footnote 348: Congreve's "Love for Love," II. 10.] [Footnote 349: Ibid. 11.]