P. 22: 17. _For you must know he's kept by a Miss._ Frederick Bracher has pointed out in a letter that Etherege was closely connected at this time with the circle of the Duchesse de Mazarin. See James Thorpe's note on "A Song on Basset," _The Poems of Sir George Etherege_ (Princeton, 1963), pp. 85-87. P. 22: 25. _Heroick C._ Elkanah Settle. P. 23: 7. _Cadem_----. William Cademan, Settle's principal publisher. P. 23: 23. _But if you speak one word of's Chumb._ Probably William Buller Fyfe, an Oxford friend who had assisted Settle with his first play, _Cambyses_. Fyfe was dead by the time the play reached the stage and Settle was criticized for bringing it out under his own name only. P. 23: 26. _D. the brisk lack-latine Poet._ Thomas Shadwell. The accusation that he knew no Latin was repeated by Dryden in _The Vindication of the Duke of Guise_ (1683) and is denied with characteristic stridency by Shadwell in _The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal_ (1687). The accusation that his plays were partly written by others is made by Dryden in _Mac Flecknoe_ ("But let no alien Sedley interpose") and is present by implication in Rochester's reference in "Timon" to "Shadwell's unassisted former Scenes...." Shadwell began his career as the collaborator of the aged Duke of Newcastle and acknowledges Sedley's help in his best comedy, _A True Widow_ (1678). He was on good terms with Rochester, Dorset, and Buckingham and addressed dedications to the two last. The references to Horace and Lucretius allude to the preface to _The Humorists_ and the opening scene of _The Virtuoso_, respectively. P. 24: 14. _Angling for single Money in a Shoe._ This line from the Epilogue to _The Libertine_ (1676) is quoted in context in the Author's Epistle. It also appears on the title-page of _PC_. P. 27: 14. _Whetstone-Whore_. A reference to Whetstone Park, a street at the North end of Lincoln's Inn Fields. The name was subsequently changed to Whetstone St., but has since reverted, perhaps under the liberalizing influences of its principal present-day occupants, _The New Statesman_ and the Olivetti typewriter company. P. 30: 12-17. _To ... pick'd._ The reference is apparently to one of the "posture artists" of Moorfields, another brothel district; however, there may also be an allusion intended to an incident in the Duke's playhouse on 23 June 1679, when John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, attempted to cane Betty Mackerell, an orange girl, and was thrashed in his turn by Thomas Otway. See Ham, _Otway and Lee_, pp. 112-115. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California, Los Angeles THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY 2520 CIMARRON STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90018 _General Editors:_ William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles: Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles _Corresponding Secretary:_ Mrs. Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library