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| 9. | ll. 15, 16. | he That makes, etc.] Hazlitt suggests that this is Francis Quarles. |
| l. 17. | Selwin] This person, like the Bartlets immediately after, has left no traces which make identification certain—probably one of the Selwyns of Matson, near Gloucester, and an ancestor of Horace Walpole's witty friend, George Selwyn. | |
| Waller] Walter, 1646, 1658. | ||
| Bartlets] The editor of the 1836 edition mentioned William Bartlet, the independent minister (d. 1682), but doubted whether he was alluded to in this passage. | ||
| l. 18. | Jack Vaughan] Probably John Vaughan of the Inner Temple, Selden's friend and executor, who became Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1668. | |
| Porter] Endymion Porter, famous as a friend and patron of poets. D'Avenant inscribed The Wits 'to the Chiefly Belov'd of all that are ingenious and noble, Endymion Porter of His Majesty's Bedchamber': see Maidment and Logan's ed. of D'Avenant's dramatic works, ii. 112-15. Thomas May dedicated to him his Antigone. Five of Herrick's Hesperides are addressed to him: see especially Nos. 117, 1072. Porter's own verse included an elegy on Donne, printed in the 1633 ed. of Donne's poems. | ||
| 10. | ll. 19-27. | Cf. the picture of Jonson's self-commendation in Howell, Epp. Ho-El., ii., No. 13, dated 5 April, 1636. Suckling may have had this incident in mind, if the 'T. Ca.' of Howell's letter is the poet Carew, as is usually supposed. If so, the date of these verses is fixed between April, 1636, and Jonson's death, 6 Aug., 1637. Cf. also the portrait of Jonson as Multecarni in The Sad One, Acts IV. and V. |
| l. 26. | hoped] hopes 1646, 1658. | |
| l. 36. | New Inn] Jonson's New Inn, acted 1629, is notorious for its failure, which inspired the disappointed author to the lines, 'Come, leave the loathed stage.' | |
| l. 37. | Tom Carew] See Mr. Vincent's introduction to Carew's poems, especially pp. xxxiii, xxxiv. | |
| l. 39. | hide-bound] hard bound 1646, 1658. |
