NOTES (In margin in the Original).

[1] Reflect upon Aristot. &c.

[2] Eurip. Hippolit.

[3] Hamlet.

[4] Don Quixot.

[5] Relapse.

[6] Love for Love.

[7] Mock Astrologer.

[8] Old Batchelour.

[9] Mock Astrologer. Country Wife. Cleomenes. Old Batchelour.

[10] Plaut.

[11] Cistellar.

[12] Terent. Eunuch.

[13] Asinar.

[14] Cistellar.

[15] Bacchid.

[16] Casin.

[17] Mercat. Act. 3.

[18] Persa.

[19] Trucul.

[20] Persa.

[21] Trinum.

[22] Act. 2. 1.

[23] Act. 2. 2.

[24] Casin.

[25] Mil. Glor.

[26] Pers.

[27] Trucul.

[28] Cistellear. A. 1.

[29] Ibid. A. 2.

[30] Heauton.

[31] Eunuch.

[32] Love Triump.

[33] Heauton. A. 5. 4.

[34] Eunuch A. 5. 4. 5. Adelph. A. 2. 3.

[35] Eunuch.

[36] Casaub. Annot. in Curcul. Plauti.

[37] De A te Poet.

[38] Var. apud. Nonium.

[39] Corn. Nep.

[40] Arist. Lib. 4. de Mor. cap. 14.

[41] Vit. Eurip. ed Cantab. 1694.

[42] Love for Love. Love Triump. &c.

[43] p. 14. Ed. Scriv.

[44] Hippol.

[45] Aristoph. Ran.

[46] Χοηφορ. 253, Ed. Steph.

[47] Orest. 48. Ed. Cantab.

[48] Ευμεν. 305.

[49] p. 79.

[50] Ἱκέτ. 340.

[51] Don Sebast. p. 12.

[52] Oedip. Tyran. Ed Steph.

[53] Antig. 242. 244.

[54] Ibid. 264.

[55] Trach. 348.

[56] Μωρία τὸ Μῶρον Ed. Cant. 241. 250. 252.

[57] Ibid. 232. 233.

[58] Androm. p. 303.

[59] Iphig. in Aulid. p. 51.

[60] Helen. 277, 278.

[61] Mourning Bride. p. 36.

[62] Spanish Fryar. Ep. Ded.

[63] Troad. p. 146.

[64] Plain Dealer. p. 21.

[65] Provok'd Wife. p. 41.

[66] Remarks upon Quixot.

[67] Nub. Act. 1. Sc. 3. p. 104. Ed. Amstel.

[68] Sat. 14.

[69] p. 106.

[70] Nub. p. 110.

[71] Act. 5. p. 176.

[72] Plat. Apol. Socrat.

[73] Nub. p. 86.

[74] Plut. A. 1. Sc. 2.

[75] Ran. p. 188.

[76] 536. 538. 546.

[77] 542.

[78] 582.

[79] Ibid.

[80] 602.

[81] Eiren. 616.

[82] p. 142. p. 200.

[83] 242.

[84] p. 244.

[85] p. [......] p. [......]

[86] Ranæ p. 186. p. 182.

[87] p. 192, 194, 196.

[88] Act 2. Sc. 6.

[89] Ranæ p. 242.

[90] Ranæ A. 1. Sc. 1. Concionat.

[91] Ranæ p. 238.

[92] p. 240.

[93] p. 242. 244.

[94] 255. 267.

[95] Discov. p. 700.

[96] p. 701.

[97] p. 706. 717.

[98] Beauments, &c. Works.

[99] Ibid.

[100] Ibid.

[101] Theodore. Ed. Roven. Ep. Ded.

[102] Gad for God.

[103] p. 31.

[104] p. 37.

[105] p. 24.

[106] Hebr. 12.

[107] 34. 36.

[108] 55.

[109] 59.

[110] Orph. p. 20.

[111] p. 31.

[112] Lactan.

[113] p. 19.

[114] p. 28.

[115] p. 31.

[116] 38.

[117] p. 39.

[118] p. 39.

[119] Id. 49.

[120] Double Dealer. 34.

[121] 36.

[122] 55.

[123] p. 40.

[124] Sebast. p. 9.

[125] Id. p. 10.

[126] p. 47.

[127] Id. p. 83. Exod. 12, 13.

[128] Ibid.

[129] Ibid.

[130] Ded. p. 51.

[131] Love Triumph. p. 3.

[132] Id. p. 11.

[133] Id. p. 11.

[134] p. 34.

[135] 58.

[136] p. 62.

[137] 1st. Eliz. cap. 2.

[138] p. 63.

[139] p. 72.

[140] Love for Love. p. 42.

[141] 26.

[142] p. 27.

[143] p. 47.

[144] Vid. Person. Dram.

[145] p. 80.

[146] p. 91.

[147] p. 92.

[148] Prov. Wife p. 38.

[149] Id. p. 77.

[150] Relapse. p. 32, 33.

[151] p. 44, 45.

[152] Vid. Infra.

[153] p. 51.

[154] p. 96, 97.

[155] Ibid.

[156] p.91.

[157] Don. Sebastian. p. 51.

[158] Double Dealer. p. 19.

[159] p. 17.

[160] p. 44.

[161] Double Dealer. p. 18.

[162] Gen. 2. St. Math. 9.

[163] Love, &c. p. 59, 61.

[164] Provok'd Wife. p. 3.

[165] p. 4.

[166] p. 65.

[167] Relapse. p. 19.

[168] p. 96.

[169] Eccles. 8. 11.

[170] Gal. 6.

[171] Eunuch.

[172] Heauton. A. 5. 1.

[173] Adelp. A. 5. 7.

[174] Lyconides. Aulular. A. 2. 4. Palæstra. Rud. A. 1. 3. Dinarchus. Trucul. A. 2. 4.

[175] Mil. Glor.

[176] Pseud. A. 1. 3.

[177] Prom. vinct. 57.

[178] p. 92.

[179] p. 101.

[180] Περσ. 161.

[181] 164.

[182] Ajax. Flagell.

[183] Oedip. Tyran. p. 187.

[184] p. 188.

[185] Antig. p. 256.

[186] Trach. p. [......].

[187] Trach. p. 375.

[188] Trach. p. 340.

[189] Cleom. p. 54.

[190] Id. p. 55.

[191] p. 54.

[192] De Art. Poet.

[193] Philoct. 402.

[194] 419.

[195] p. 431.

[196] Act. 2.

[197] p. 295.

[198] Agam. Act. 3.

[199] 20.

[200] p. 37.

[201] p. 23.

[202] Country Wife p. 6.

[203] p. 35.

[204] Ibid.

[205] p. 25.

[206] p. 26.

[207] Ibid.

[208] Old Batch. p. 19, 20.

[209] p. 27.

[210] p. 41.

[211] p. 71.

[212] Absal. and Achi.

[213] p. 24.

[214] p. 96.

[215] p. 32.

[216] Oedip. p. 38.

[217] p. 43.

[218] Ibid.

[219] Ibid.

[220] Provok'd Wife. p. 45, 46, 52, 52.

[221] Relapse. p. 74.

[222] p. 75.

[223] p. 86.

[224] p. 97.

[225] 89.

[226] p. 94.

[227] p. 95, 97, 105.

[228] Hom. Il. α. p. 3. & dein. Ed. Screvel.

[229] Il. B. p. 91.

[230] Ibid. p. 92.

[231] Il. E. p. 154, 155.

[232] Il. E. p. 154, 155.

[233] Ibid. p. 158.

[234] Odyss. I p. 174, 181.

[235] Ænid. 2.

[236] Ruaus. in Loc.

[237] Æneid 2.

[238] Ibid.

[239] Æneid. 3.

[240] Ibid.

[241] Ænead. 1st.

[242] Æn. 6.

[243] Ibid.

[244] Æneid. 7.

[245] Lib. 1.

[246] Æneid. 10.

[247] Æneid. 11.

[248] Æneid. 9. 10. 11.

[249] Guther. de jure veter. pontif.

[250] Oedip. Tyr. p. 148.

[251] Ibid. 169.

[252] p. 38.

[253] Antig. p. 250, 258.

[254] Eurip. Phœniss. p. 158, 159.

[255] Bacch. Act. 1. Act. 4.

[256] Jon. Act 5.

[257] Iphig. in Aulid. & in Taur.

[258] Oedip.

[259] Troad. A. 2. p. 193.

[260] Plut. Ran. Aves.

[261] Bacchid. Act. 2. 5. 3.

[262] Rud. A. 1. 5. A. 2. 3.

[263] Act [......]

[264] Rud. A. 4. S. 7.

[265] Measure for Measure. Much a do about Nothing. Twelf-Night. Henry 4th pt. 1st. Hen. 6. pt. 3d. Romeo and Juliet. * Merry Wives of Windsor.

[266] Essay of Dramat. &c.

[267] De Bell. Judaic.

[268] Deut. 17. 9. 20. 2. Chron. 19. 8.

[269] Math. 27. Act. 4. Vid. seldon de Synedr.

[270] Joseph.

[271] Diod. Sic.

[272] Gen. 41.

[273] Porph. de Abstin. Lib. 4. Cæsar de Bell. Gall. Lib. 6

[274] Lib. 6.

[275] Ser. in Controv.

[276] Dion. Halic.

[277] Pro Dom. ad Pontif.

[278] Hebr. 7.

[279] Davila Filmers Freeholders Grand Inq.

[280] Miræus De Statu Relig. Christ.

[281] Fletchers Embassy.

[282] Puffendorf Introduction à l'Histoire.

[283] Heylins Cosgmog.

[284] 2, Hen. 8. cap. 22. 26, Hen. 8 cap 2. 1. Edw. 6. cap. 12, &c. Preamb.

[285] S. Luke 12.

[286] Moral Essays.

[287] Mock Astrol. p. 3, &c.

[288] Mock Astrol. p. 57, 59.

[289] Spanish Fryar. p. 61.

[290] Country Wife. p. 25.

[291] Old Batch.

[292] Double Dealer. p. 34.

[293] Love for Love p. 90.

[294] Love for Love. p. 6, 7. 25. 61. 89. 91.

[295] p. 35.

[296] Don Sebast.

[297] Love for Love. p. 20.

[298] Provok'd Wife. p. 64.

[299] Chap. 1. & 2.

[300] Mostel. A. 1. 2. Trinum. A. 2. 1. A. 2. 2. Enuch. A. 3. 3. Hecyr. A. 3. 4.

[301] Trinum. A. 2. 1.

[302] A. 2. 2.

[303] Enuch. A. 3. 3.

[304] Hecyr. A. 3. 4.

[305] Stich A. 1. 1.

[306] p. 3.

[307] Stich. A. 1. 2.

[308] p. 60.

[309] Ibid.

[310] De Art. Poet.

[311] Ibid.

[312] [......] Schol.

[313] Libr. de Poet. cap. 5.

[314] Psyche.

[315] Ibid.

[316] Pref. Mock. Astrol.

[317] Ibid.

[318] Ibid.

[319] Essay of Dramatick Poetry. p. 28.

[320] The London Prodigall.

[321] Ibid.

[322] Ibid.

[323] Ibid.

[324] Rapin Reflect. &c. p. 10.

[325] Libr. 4. de Morib. cap. 14.

[326] De Mor. Lib. 10, cap. 2.

[327] Institut. Lib. 6; c. 3.

[328] p. 32.

[329] p. 52.

[330] Spanish Fryar. p. 36.

[331] p. 70.

[332] p. 61.

[333] Enuch.

[334] King Arth. p. 2.

[335] Love Trium. p. 26.

[336] p. 47.

[337] Oedip. p. 3.

[338] Old Batch. p. 41.

[339] p. 35.

[340] p. 22.

[341] Don. Sebast. p. 5.

[342] Double Dealer. Person. Dram. Relapse. Provok'd Wife. p. 4. p. 2.

[343] Relapse.

[344] p. 4.

[345] p. 2.

[346] Don Sebast. p. 16.

[347] p. 17.

[348] Don. Quix. part. 2. p. 37.

[349] Relapse. p. 84.

[350] p. 24.

[351] L'Ombre de Moliere

[352] Essay Dram. poet. p. 5.

[353] Amphit. p. 1, 2, 3, 8, 9.

[354] p. 8. 17.

[355] p. 18.

[356] 19.

[357] Eunuch.

[358] Euseb. præpar. Evang.

[359] Ep. Ded.

[360] p. 1.

[361] p. 3, 16, etc.

[362] p. 1.

[363] Pref.

[364] p. 1.

[365] 19.

[366] Troil. and Cressid.

[367] The Hist. of Sr. John Old Castle.

[368] King Arthur.

[369] Ep. Ded.

[370] p. 6.

[371] Ep. Ded. Don Sebast.

[372] Ded. King Arthur.

[373] Sebast. K. Arth.

[374] Ibid.

[375] Part 1st. p. 20.

[376] p. 20.

[377] p. 37.

[378] p. 13.

[379] Part. 1. p. 13.

[380] Person. Dram.

[381] p. 51.

[382] p. 3.

[383] p. 7.

[384] p. 10.

[385] p. 41.

[386] p. 47.

[387] Part. 1st. p. 7, 8. pt. 2d. p. 57.

[388] pt. 2d. p. 60;

[389] pt. 1st. p. 38. pt. 2d. p. 14.

[390] pt. 1st. p. 7, 8. pt. 2d. p. 52. pt. 2d. p. 36, 49. pt. 2d. p. 37. 44.

[391] Pref. pt. 3d.

[392] Ibid.

[393] Pref.

[394] Ibid.

[395] Person. Dram.

[396] pt. 2d. p. 31.

[397] p. 51.

[398] Pref. pt. 1st.

[399] Ibid.

[400] pt. 3d.

[401] p. 53.

[402] Reflect, &c. p. 131.

[403] Relapse. p. 19

[404] Reflect. p. 133.

[405] p. 27.

[406] p. 79.

[407] Ibid.

[408] p. 81.

[409] p. 83.

[410] p. 59.

[411] p. 11.

[412] p. 47.

[413] p. 51.

[414] p. 74.

[415] Reflect. p. 40.

[416] Tragedies of the last Age consider'd, &c. p. 113, 114.

[417] p. 59.

[418] p. 61.

[419] p. 42.

[420] p. 43.

[421] p. 44.

[422] p. 64. At top.

[423] p. 85.

[424] p. 64.

[425] p. 94.

[426] p. 15.

[427] p. 99.

[428] Ibid.

[429] p. 100.

[430] Rapin Reflect, &c.

[431] Discourse des Trois Unitez. pt. 3d.

[432] p. 88.

[433] Pref.

[434] see Chap. 2d.

[435] Pref.

[436] An Academy in Lithuania, for the Education of Bears. Pere Auvill Voyage en Divers Etats, &c. p. 240.

[437] Plat. de Repub. Lib. 10. Euseb. Præpar. Evang.

[438] Cyropæd. p. 34

[439] Polit. Lib. 7. c. p. 12.

[440] Polit. Lib. 8.

[441] Tusc. Quest. Lib. 4. De Leg. Lib. 1.

[442] Dec. 1. Lib. 7.

[443] Lib. 2. cap. 4.

[444] cap. 6.

[445] Natural Quest. Lib. 7. cap. 32.

[446] Epist. 7.

[447] Annal. Lib 14. cap. 14.

[448] De Mor. German. cap. 19

[449] Symposiac. Lib. 7. De Audiend. Poet. p. 15. Ed. Par.

[450] Lib. 1.

[451] Remed. Amor.

[452] Lib. 2.

[453] Ep. Ded.

[454] Plut. De Glor. Atheniens.

[455] Plut. Lacon. Institut.

[456] Cic. de Repub. Lib. 4. cited by, St. Augustine. Libr. 2. de civ. dei. cap. 13.

[457] Lib. 2. cap. 29.

[458] Dec. 1. Libr. 7.

[459] Ab Histrionibus Pollui.

[460] XV. Cod. Theod. Tit. vii. p.375.

[461] in loco Honesto.

[462] turpe munus.

[463] L. 1. §. 6. de his qui notantur infamia. Gothofred. Ibid. p. 376.

[464] Rawlidge his Monster, lately found out, &c. p. 2, 3, 4.

[465] Gazett Roterdam: Dec. 20. Paris.

[466] French Amsterdam Harlem Gazetts. Paris, May. 17th. 1697.

[467] Trois lettres Pastorales De Monseigneur L'Eveque D'Arras &c. A Delf. 1697.

[468] Ann. 305. Can. 67.

[469] Ann. 314. Can. 5.

[470] Ann. 452.

[471] Ann. 397. Can. 11.

[472] Secularia spectacula, which manifestly comprehends the Stage.

[473] Ann. 424. Can. 96

[474] Concil. Cabilon. Ann. 813. Can. 9.

[475] Libr. 3. ad Autol.

[476] Spectacula.

[477] Chap. 38.

[478] Chap. 3.

[479] Ibid. Cap. 10.

[480] The Play-houses were dedicated to Bacchus.

[481] Ibid. cap. 15.

[482] Ibid. cap. 22.

[483] Ibid. cap. 23.

[484] Ibid. cap. 26.

[485] Ibid. cap. 27.

[486] Ibid. cap. 28.

[487] Ibid. cap. 29.

[488] By Exorcisms

[489] Lib. 3. Pædag. Ann. 204. cap. 11.

[490] Ann. 206.

[491] Ad Eucrat.

[492] Lib. 6. cap. 20.

[493] Ibid. cap. 21.

[494] Ibid. cap. 22.

[495] In Psal. 119.

[496] Ep. 9. 12. Advers. Jovinian. Lib. 2. cap. 7.

[497] Chap. 20.

[498] cap. 33.

[499] Didac. &c. in D. Thom. p. 546.

[500] De Repub. L. 4.

[501] Cic. de Leg. L. 2.

[502] A Famous Musician

[503] Vid. Corneille Cid, Cinna & Pompee.

[504] Moral Essays.

[505] 2 Cor. 6. 14.