173 _s.d. in a chair like a sick man._ Idea from Crowne, _City Politicks_, first acted 1682. 178 _fitigue._ 1717, "Fatigue." s.d. _powers some drops in._ 1717, "pours." 180 _have the any power._ 1717, "they." 182 Townley's concealing Plotwell under the petticoat owes to Mrs. Behn's _The Younger Brother_ (acted 1696, not revived), Mirtilla's hiding "Endimion" under the train of her gown in IV.ii. _invisible i th is very._ Typo for "in this very"; 1717 has "on this very." Gay (or Cibber) might have changed "on" to "in" when adding the sentence at the end of Act IV; see next note. 183 _But prithee ... rarities._ This sentence is not in 1717, but seems an improvement, as it hints at developments to come and raises the expectations of the audience. 186 _desarts._ 1717, "Disserts." _Macedonian queen._ Olympias: Underplot in his verses alludes, mock-heroically, to the fabled begetting of Alexander the Great. _mantygers._ This spelling may have come from the London 1757 _Supplement_. 1717, "Mantegers" (OED, mantegar, a kind of baboon). 191 _s.d. leap from their places._ Idea from Ravenscroft's _The Anatomist_: cf. n. to 215. 199 _Come we may_ (5th line on page). 1717, "Come we now"--perhaps "may" is a misreading. _Epilogue._ _sound in living._ Perhaps another misreading: 1717, "and" for "in." _viol._ 1717, "vial." Perhaps another misreading. _Key._ 212 _knights of the shires, who represent them all._ Paraphrase of a line in Dryden's epilogue to _The Man of Mode_: a mark of literacy in the anonymous writer of our Key. _Heautontimerumenos._ Self-tormentor--title of a play by Terence. 213 _another eminent physician's wife ... shall be nameless._ Contemporary gossip said that the wife of Dr. Richard Mead was meant: Parker, less considerate than the gentlemanly author of our Key, uses her name, and in Breval (p. 15) Mrs. Oldfield is made to wish that she had not "mimick'd Mrs. M--d" in her role as Mrs. Townley. But it seems likely that any mimicry would be in the mind of the audience rather than in Mrs. Oldfield's performance, or for that matter, the intention of the authors. 214 _Marriage not to be undertaken wantonly._ The Key is incorrect in citing the Jonson play; see note to p. 140, above. 215 _letters ... Cocu imaginaire._ None of our Key-writer's adducings of Molière is really in point. The hint for the letters came from Act V of anon., _The Apparition_, acted twice in 1713. The same play has an intriguing valet named Plotwell; here our authors found the name for one of their gallants--Underplot was a happy invention of their own.