Note 11 — [THE PLAYS OF] WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

This anecdote is given by Leigh Hunt on the authority of Voltaire's Letters concerning the English Nation. But Leigh Hunt's memory appears to have played him false. The only allusion, in Voltaire's Letters, to the connection between Wycherley and the Duchess, is contained in the following words:—"Mr. Wycherley, who was a long Time known publickly to be happy in the good Graces of the most celebrated Mistress of King Charles the Second."—Ed.