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52. Poems… written upon several Occasions, and to several Persons, by Edmund Waller, Esq. the 8th edition, with additions. To which is prefix’d the authors Life, London, 1711, p. xLvrI. « It is said he (Waller) had a hand in the Rehearsal, with Mr. Clifford, Mr. Cowley, and some other Wits, and that it was at first written as a comment on several plays; but the duke thinking the method was too grave, and the raillery not piquant enough took his hints from thence, and turn’d the comment into a Comedy. »

53. L'éditeur de la huitième édition des Poèmes de Waïler, en 1711 (p. xLvn1), affirme que Saint-Evremond se plaisait dans le commerce de Waller et de Cowley « of whom he had a great opinion ».