Mac Flecknoe
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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 139: 'Mac Flecknoe:' Richard Flecknoe, from whom this poem derives its name, was an Irish priest, and author of plays.]
[Footnote 140: 'Heywood and Shirley:' play writers in Queen Elizabeth's time.]
[Footnote 141: 'St Andre:' a famous French dancing-master.]
[Footnote 142: 'Psyche:' an opera of Shadwell's.]
[Footnote 143: 'Singleton:' a musician of the time.]
[Footnote 144: 'Nursery:' a theatre for training actors.]
[Footnote 145: 'Simkin:' a character of a cobbler, in an interlude.]
[Footnote 146: 'Panton:' a famous punster.]
[Footnote 147: 'Decker:' Thomas Decker, a dramatic poet of James I.'s reign.]
[Footnote 148: 'Worlds of Misers:' 'The Miser' and 'The Humourists' were two of Shadwell's comedies.]
[Footnote 149: 'Raymond' and 'Bruce:' the first of these is an insipid character in 'The Humourists'; the second, in 'The Virtuoso.']
[Footnote 150: 'Ogleby:' translator of Virgil.]
[Footnote 151: 'Herringman:' Henry Herringman, a bookseller; see 'Life.']
[Footnote 152: 'Love's Kingdom:' this is the name of the only play of Flecknoe's, which was acted, but miscarried in the representation.]
[Footnote 153: 'Virtuoso:' a play of Shadwell's.]
[Footnote 154: 'Gentle George:' Sir George Etheredge.]
[Footnote 155: 'Alien Sedley:' Sir Charles Sedley was supposed to assist Shadwell in writing his plays.]
[Footnote 156: 'Epsom prose:' alluding to Shadwell's play of 'Epsom Wells.']
[Footnote 157: 'Formal:' a character in 'The Virtuoso.']
[Footnote 158: 'Nicander:' a character of a lover in Shadwell's opera of 'Psyche.']
[Footnote 159: 'Wings and altars:' forms in which old acrostics were cast. See Herbert's 'Temple.']
[Footnote 160: 'Bruce and Longville:' two characters in Shadwell's 'Virtuoso.']
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