106 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



the Ghost in the last scene but one of Shakespeare's 

 Richard the Third. In Caryll's play* King Richard, 

 before Bosworth, is presented in a distracted state, 

 newly risen from his bed, and walking in his dream 

 dagger in hand, for he is surrounded by the ghosts of 

 those whom he has killed. When Henry VI. appears 

 Richard says 



" Saint Henry ! get thee hence to thy cold bed : 

 So tame, alive ; so fierce now thou art dead." 



It must have required all the friendship of Dryden 

 and Wycherley to have kept this cumbrous and turgid 

 play afloat. Another of Mr. Secretary's compositions 

 was a comedy in imitation of Moliere's " L'Ecole des 

 Femmes," which he published in 1671, under the title 

 of " Sir Salomon Single ; or, the Cautious Coxcomb." 



Macaulay says that " Caryll's pieces have long been 

 forgotten, but what Caryll could not do for himself 

 was done for him by a more powerful genius. Half a 

 line in the Rape of the Lock has made his name im- 

 mortal." This, however, is incorrect : the person thus 

 distinguished by Pope is, as we shall see, his nearest 

 friend, another John Caryll (third of that name), the 

 Squire of Harting, a nephew of Mr. Secretary. (A then. 

 May 8th, 1858.) The Secretary himself never saw 

 Pope at all, and died in 1711, while the Poet made 

 his acknowledgments to John Caryll the Squire in 

 1714, as the originator of the Rape of the Lock, a poem 

 called by De Quincey the most exquisite monument of 

 playful fancy that universal literature affords. f 



* Caryll's Richard the Third, Act IV., Scene IX., p. 49. 

 t Pope had only withholden the name of Caryll from the first 

 edition, 1711, because his friend was a Roman Catholic. The first 

 edition was called by Addison " Merum Sal"=" pure wit." John 

 Caryll III., the squire of Lady Holt, proposed the subject to Pope 

 with a view to putting an end, by this piece of playful ridicule, to 

 a quarrel that had arisen between the two noble families of Lord 

 Petre (Caryll's second cousin, and introduced to Pope by Caryll) 

 and Miss, or according to the style of those days, Mrs. Arabella 



