His second wife, though twenty years younger than himself, and of no unpleasing face or figure, had frequent reason to complain of his inconstancy.

But of all his illicit attachments the strongest was that which bound him to Catharine Sedley.
This woman was the daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, one of the most brilliant and profligate wits of the Restoration.

The licentiousness of his writings is not redeemed by much grace or vivacity; but the charms of his conversation were acknowledged even by sober men who had no esteem for his character.

To sit near him at the theatre, and to hear his criticisms on a new play, was regarded as a privilege.

[65] Dryden had done him the honour to make him a principal interlocutor in the Dialogue on Dramatic Poesy.