Footnotes:

{1} The North British Review, No. XLIX.--1. 'Works of Beaumont and
Fletcher.' London, 1679.--2. 'Works of Ben Jonson.' London, 1692--
3. 'Massinger's Plays.' Edited by William Gifford, Esq. London,
1813.--4. 'Works of John Webster.' Edited, etc., by Rev. Alexander
Dyce. Pickering, London, 1830. 5. 'Works of James Shirley.' Edited
by Rev. A. Dyce. Murray, 1833.--6. 'Works of T. Middleton.' Edited
by the Rev. A. Dyce. Lumley, 1840.--7. 'Comedies,' etc. By Mr.
William Cartwright. London, 1651.--8. 'Specimens of English
Dramatic Poets.' By Charles Lamb. Longmans and Co., 1808--9.
'Histriomastix.' By W. Prynne, Utter-Barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
London, 1633.--10. 'Northbrooke's Treatise against Plays,' etc.
(Shakspeare Soc.), 1843.--11. 'The Works of Bishop Hall.' Oxford,
1839.--12. 'Marston's Satires.' London, 1600. 13. 'Jeremy Collier's
Short View of the Profaneness, etc., of the English Stage.' London,
1730.--14. 'Langbaine's English Dramatists.' Oxford, 1691.--15.
'Companion to the Playhouse.' London, 1764.--16. 'Riccoboni's
Account of the Theatres in Europe. 1741.

{2} 'The Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theatres.' Penned by
a Play-poet.

{3} This was written sixteen years ago. We have become since then
more amenable to the influences of French civilisation.

{4} What canon of cleanliness, now lost, did Cartwright possess,
which enabled him to pronounce Fletcher, or indeed himself, purer
than Shakspeare, and his times 'nicer' than those of James? To our
generation, less experienced in the quantitative analysis of moral