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449 ceeded Garrick, who though he doubtless departed in some measure from the original idea, made the representation incomparably pleasant. formed the original Bayes; after him, celebrated for dancing and mimicry.

The Duchess of Portsmouth, who was alleged to be an abettor of Rochester in the outrage on Dryden, returned to France on the death of her royal paramour. In 1699 she paid a visit to England, when according to Burnett, she told Mr. Anthony Henley, of the Grange in Hampshire, that Charles the Second had been poisoned. She died at Paris in 1728, much advanced in life.

Had not the whole of Lord Shaftesbury’s political life made him so justly odious, Dryden’s connections would naturally have led him to represent that nobleman in a favourable light. For Shaftesbury had married Margaret, daughter of William, second Lord Spencer; and Henry Howard, one of the brothers of Dryden’s wife, married Elizabeth, another of Lord Spencer’s daughters.

The discomfiture and flight of Shaftesbury to Holland in 1682, gave great satisfaction to the adherents of the Duke of York. It amounted in their view almost to a second Restoration. He had been represented on the stage in various evil imaginary forms; on one occasion with fiends’ wings and snakes twisted round the body, while rebellious heads sucked poison out of his side which ran out