Note 133 — THE ART OF PAINTING;

Morecraft is an usurer in Beaumont and Fletcher’s comedy of the “Scornful Lady,” who, having been cheated and discomfited, as usurers commonly are in the drama, (I suppose to compensate their success in real life,) at the end of the play suddenly changes his character for that of an extravagant gallant, and assumes the denomination of cutting, or as we would now say dashing, Morecraft.—See Vol. IV. p. 241.