Note 1 — INTRODUCTION.

The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century. [2] Cf. Lenient, History of French Satire. [3] Thomson's Ante-Augustan Latin Poetry. [4] Cf. Mackail; Paten, Études sur la Poésie latine. [5] See Skeat's "Langland" in Encyclop. Brit. [6] See Arber's Reprints for 1868. [7] Arber's Select Reprints. [8] Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury. [9] This, of course, was Marston. [10] From the Fifth Satire in The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image and Certain Satyres, by John Marston. 1598. [11] Pasquil's Madcappe: Thrown at the Corruption of these Times—1626. Breton, to be read at all, ought to be studied in the two noble volumes edited by Dr. A.B. Grosart. From his edition I quote. [12] English Literature, by Prof. Craik. Hannay's Satires and Satirists. [13] Life of Dryden, by Sir Walter Scott. Saintsbury's Life of Dryden. [14] Thackeray's English Humorists. Hannay's Satires and Satirists. [15] Satire and Satirists, by James Hannay. Lecture III. [16] Dowden's French Literature. [17] Minto's Characteristics of English Poets. [18] Cf. Saintsbury's Life of Dryden. [19] Cf. Gosse, Eighteenth Century Literature. [20] Thackeray's English Humorists. [21] The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin—Carisbrooke Library, 1890. [22] The Bæviad and the Mæviad, by W. Gifford, Esq., 1800.]