[16] An Order of the Lord Chamberlain to the Managers of the Haymarket and Drury Lane Theatres, dated 24 Dec., 1709, directed that all agreements with actors, &c., were to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain; that all players were to be sworn in; that all new plays, &c., were to be re-licensed by the Master of the Revels; and "that from and after the first day of January next no new Representations be brought upon the Stage which are not Necessary to the better performance of Comedy or Opera, such as ladder-dancing, antic postures, &c., without my leave and approbation first had." (Lord Chamberlain's Records, Warrant Book No. 22, end). See _Tatler_, Nos. 12, 99. The author of a book called _The Antient and Modern Stages surveyed_ (1699), attributed to Dr. James Drake, and written in reply to Collier's _Short View_, says (p. 99): "As for the dancing, which he calls bold, it may in one sense be allowed him; for it must be granted that he that ventures his neck to dance upon the top of a ladder is a very bold fellow." [17] Pother. [18] In a letter written in August, 1710, to her future husband, Mr. E. Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary Pierrepoint says: "People talk of being in love just as widows do of affliction. Mr. Steele has observed in one of his plays, 'the most passionate among them have always calmness enough to drive a hard bargain with the upholders.' I never knew a lover that would not willingly secure his interest as well as his mistress; or, if one must be abandoned, had not the prudence (among all his distractions) to consider that a woman was but a woman, and money was a thing of more real merit than the whole sex put together." [19] See note 35. [20] In the first edition this speech reads, "Oh that Harriot! To fold these arms about the waist of that beauteous struggling--and at last yielding fair!" In the _Spectator_ (No. 51), Steele condemned the passage as an offence to delicacy and modesty. [21] Tom's Coffee House, 17, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, on the north side, over against Button's. See _Guardian_, No. 71. [22] Richard Lucas, D.D. (1648-1715), wrote, among other things, _The Enquiry after Happiness_, and _Practical Christianity_. The latter, published in 1700, was afterwards referred to in the _Guardian_, No. 63, and there are quotations from both works in Steele's _Ladies' Library_, 1714. [23] Daniel Purcell composed music for these verses. [24] Henry Lawes, the friend of Milton, and his associate in the production of _Comus_, died in 1662. [25] Slippers. [26] Gildon suggests that this should be "premises"; but the word was not altered in later editions of the play. [27] It is interesting to compare the ensuing dialogue with similar scenes in Sheridan's _School for Scandal_. [28] Budgell refers to this scene in a paper in the _Spectator_ (No. 506), on happiness in the married state. [29] Daniel Purcell composed music for this song.