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poems doing little to add to his reputation. About 1679 he married the widowed Countess of Drogheda, who died in 1681, and he entered into a second marriage eleven days before his death. In his later years he formed a friendship with Pope, then a boy of 16. Wycherley was one of the founders of the Comedy of Manners. The merit of his plays lies in smart and witty dialogue rather than in construction. The Plain Dealer, his best, is founded upon Molière’s Misanthrope. His plays are notoriously coarse.

Wyntoun, Andrew of (1350?-1420?).—Chronicler, was a canon of St. Andrews, who became Prior of St. Serf’s island in Loch Leven. His work, entitled The Orygynale Cronykil, begins with the creation of angels and men and comes down to 1406. It is poetic in form though rarely so in substance, and is of considerable historical value in its later parts and as regards the see of St. Andrews.