P. 16: 16. _Locket's._ An ordinary at Charing-Cross mentioned in many Restoration comedies. P. 16: 21. _the Royal Theatre._ Presumably the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, although the term could equally well be meant for the theatre at Whitehall. P. 17: 7. _the briskest of our Crew._ Probably Dryden, although the description has some problematical features. The fact that the poet is a rhymer and connected with the Duke's house rules out most other possibilities. P. 19: 1. _Will have a Poet at their tail._ Possibly Otway. In _PC_ (pp. 2-3), a shorter version of the description is combined with lines from the "Dryden" portrait--the one piece of evidence for the truncation theory: Then there are mighty Peers o' th' Realm, Whose conduct helps to steer the Helm: They're great pretenders unto Wit. And that they may seem to incourage it They'll have a Poet at their Tail: And that to know him they mayn't fail, He has an old fashion thread-bare Coat, Foul Linnen, Hat not worth a Groat; One points and cries, there goes _Long-lane_, Another cries, he's Long-and-Lean. For like one newly fluxt he'l crawl, And lets the Foot-Boys take the Wall. But when to th' Tavern they do go, Their Honours will more freedom show; There they may Swagger Swear and Lye, And doe any thing, but Pay: Damn ye, I din'd with such a Lord to Day, And such a Lord did like my Play: And without Vanity it is The best I writ, my Master-piece. P. 20: 2. _Channel-row._ The scene of this canto is Arthur Prior's Rhenish house in Channel-row near Whitehall. P. 20: 19. _A. as 'tis first in th' Alphabet._ In view of his exalted station, wealth, and Whiggish company, it is probably safe to identify "A" with Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, who is known as a habitué of Prior's wineshop through the stories of his encouragement of the owner's nephew Matthew. However, most details would apply equally well--in his own mind at least--to another prominent patron of the day, John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave. In this connection, it is interesting to note that Mulgrave's account at Child's bank records a payment of £20/--/--made on 14 May 1683 to a Thomas Wood. The name was, naturally, a common one. P. 21: 28. _And wounds it too with its own Sting._ Presumably a reference to Dorset's "On Mr. Edward Howard upon his British Princes" or Mulgrave's "An Essay upon Satyr." Both poems may be found in the first volume of the Yale _Poems on Affairs of State_ series (ed. George deForrest Lord [New Haven, 1963]). P. 22: 3. _Next unto A. B. took his place._ Sir George Etherege. The opening lines anticipate Dean Lockier's comment recorded by Spence that "he was exactly his own Sir Fopling Flutter" which may on the other hand be derived from it. See Joseph Spence, _Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men_, ed. James M. Osborn (Oxford, 1966), p. 281.