wholesome, dangerous, melancholy meat." WILLIAMS.

2289. Domestic poultry. "The Catholic clergy maintained by King James." [SCOTT.] 2300. The bird, etc. "The cock is made an emblem of the regular clergy of Rome, on account of their nocturnal devotions and matins." [SCOTT.]

2318. Sister Partlet. The nuns; v. 823, 68. 2320. Restiff. Ed. 1 reads restless.

249, 2325. Undress. Ed. 1 reads undrest. At the end of the verse eds. 1, 2, and 3 read pleas, which modern editors have changed to please. Please may have been what Dryden intended, although N. E. D. cites no instance of the spelling pleas for please later than 1503, and the expression make her pleas in the sense of plead her cause seems intelligible.

2326. A lively faith, etc. A sarcasm upon Article XII: "Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's Judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit."

2336. An hideous figure, etc. "The Roman Catholic pamphlets of the time are filled with complaints that their principles were misrepresented by the Protestant divines." [SCOTT.] 2339. Some Egyptian. Ed. 1 reads, an Ægyptian.

2346. There, etc. "The worship of images, charged upon the Romish Church by Protestants as idolatrous." ScOTT.

2350. No Holland emblem. "The Dutch seem to have been remarkable for emblems, of which their old-fashioned prints and figured pantiles are existing evidence." [SCOTT.] 2361. A law, etc. v. n. 243, 1927. 2370. Shibboleth. v. n. 244, 1992 and n. 216

(To the Reader). On the word, v. Judges xii. 6. 2387. For those, etc. The idea of these lines

goes back to Greek literature. Lycurgus, In Leocratem, 92, quotes a similar saying from "some of the old poets."

2392. The Meccan prophet. "The foolish fable of Mahomet accustoming a pigeon to pick peas from his ear, to found his pretensions to inspiration, is well known." [SCOTT.] 250, 2415. Buzzard. "Gilbert Burnet, well known as a historian, was born in Scotland in 1643. Being ordained, he obtained the living of Saltoun, in East Lothian. While in this living he drew up a memorial of the abuses of the Scotch bishops, and was instrumental in procuring the induction of some moderate Presbyterian divines into vacant churches. To measures so unfavorable for Episcopacy Dryden seems to allude in ll. 2418-2421. He was next created Professor of Divinity at Glasgow; but, as his active temper led him to mingle much in political life, he speedily distinguished himself rather as a politician than as a theologian. In 1672 he was made one of

the king's chaplains, and was in high favor both with Charles and his brother. He enjoyed much of the countenance of the Duke of Lauderdale; but a quarrel taking place between them, the duke represented Burnet's conduct in such terms that he was deprived of his chaplainry, and forced to resign his professor's chair and abandon Scotland. (He later had an opportunity of revenging himself upon Lauderdale; v. n. 2473.) During the time of the Popish Plot he again received a portion of the royal countenance. He was then preacher at the Rolls Chapel (v. n. 142, 396), and enjoyed a high degree of public consideration. By a too frank letter to King Charles, in reproof of the faults of his character and government, he forfeited his favor, at least for a time. This freedom, with his Low Church tenets, gave also offense to the Duke of York, who was moreover offended with him for some interference in the affair of the Exclusion. At length his devotion to Lord Russell drew upon him the full resentment of both brothers. After a final breach with the court he went abroad, and settled in Holland at the court of the Prince of Orange. Here he did not fail, with that ready insinuation which seems to have distinguished him, to make himself of consequence to the prince, and especially to the princess, afterwards Queen Mary. From this place of refuge he sent forth several papers relating to the controversy in England; and the clergy, who had formerly looked upon him with some suspicion, began now to treat with great attention and respect a person so capable of serving their cause. He was consulted upon every emergency; which confidence was no doubt owing partly to his situation near the person of the Prince of Orange, the Protestant heir of the crown. He stood forward as the champion of the Church of England in the controversy with Parker, Bishop of Oxford, who advocated the repeal of the Test Act (v. l. 2486). In the History of his own Time he talks with complacency of the sway which circumstances had given him among the clergy, and of the important matters which fell under his management; for he was admitted into all the secrets of the English intrigues. These insinuations of Burnet's importance may, from the very satire of Dryden, be proved to have been well founded. This acquired importance of Burnet is the alliance between the Pigeon house and Buzzard which Dryden reprobates, believing, or wishing to make others believe, that Burnet held opinions unfavorable to Episcopacy. This active politician had a very important share in the Revolution, and reaped his reward by being advanced to the see of Salisbury. He died in 1715." [SCOTT.]

In Dryden's time the word buzzard was often applied to a stupid, blundering, ignorant per

son.

2436. Son of Anak. v. Numbers xiii. 33. 2437. Like those, etc. Cf. 18, 48-50.

2445. His profit. Ed. 1 reads ambition. 2466. His praise, etc. "This applies to the sketches of character introduced by Burnet in his controversial tracts." [SCOTT.] 2468. A Greek, etc. Imitated from Virgil's timeo Danaos et dona ferentis (Æneid, ii. 49). 2469. Sev'n, etc. The Anglican Church retains only two (baptism and the Lord's Supper) of the seven Catholic sacraments.

2473. But he, etc. In 1675 the House of Com

mons attacked the Duke of Lauderdale, the king's representative in Scotland, seeking his removal from office. Burnet, being summoned before a committee of that body, had testified that he had heard Lauderdale say "he wished the Presbyterians in Scotland would rebel, that he might bring over the Irish Papists to cut their throats." Burnet also gave other information of a private character unfavorable to Lauderdale. He defends himself against the charge of treachery, but admits that his conduct "had an ill appearance." Dryden's account is much exaggerated. 251, 2482. An Indian muck. “To run amuck is a phrase derived from a practice of the Malays. When one of them has sustained an insupportable calamity, he intoxicates himself and rushes into the streets, stabbing every one he meets, until he is cut down or shot, like a mad dog." [SCOTT.] Amuck was originally an adjective; it was falsely understood as a muck.

2497. Their patron's promise. v. n. 248, 2247. 2521. A gross idolater. Burnet had merely reiterated the usual Protestant charge, that transubstantiation was an idolatrous doctrine. Cf. n. 223, 410.

2527. A doom. The Declaration of Indulgence: v. n. 216 (To the Reader). 2530. License. Eds. 2 and 3 read Licence; ed. 1 reads licens'd. This is doubtless a misprint, though it might be made into sense by placing a semicolon after infring'd, and commas after but and oppress.

2537. Fowl of nature. Wild birds, explained in 11. 2541-2549; cf. 842, 278.

2549. Rubicon. A reference to Cæsar's famous passage (B. C. 49) of the Rubicon, the boundary of his province, by which he entered Italy and began war on the Senate.

252, 2552. Shiloh. v. Genesis xlix. 10. 2554. Dionysius. "The tyrant of Syracuse,

who, after being dethroned, is said to have taught a school at Corinth." [SCOTT.] 2560. And arts, etc. "In the Declaration of Indulgence James expressed his conviction that persecution was unfavorable to popuiation and trade." WILLIAMS.

2562. The smiths, etc. In carminibus Appius ait fabrum esse quemque fortunæ. (From the opening chapter of a piece attributed to Sallust, Epistola (Secunda) ad Caesarem de Republica Ordinanda.)

2572. Two Czars, etc. Peter the Great and his half-brother Ivan, at this time joint rulers of Russia. Dryden prophesies discord between

the High and Low Church parties in the Anglican body. Compare the conclusion of The Medal, 131, 287 f.

2577. Benting times. Times when pigeons are reduced to feed on bents, a sort of coarse grass.

2580. College of the bees. Probably nothing but a reference to Virgil: cf. 477, 478, 92-156; 848, 218.

SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY. Saintsbury notes: "In Dryden's copy of Spenser, preserved at Trinity College, Cambridge, the note, Groundwork for a Song on St. Cecilia's Day, is set against F. Q. VII. vii. 12." 17. Jubal. v. Genesis iv. 21. 253, 52. Organ. St. Cecilia is by tradition the patron saint of music, and an angel is said to have visited her while she was still on earth. But the editor cannot discover Dryden's authority for making her the inventress of the organ, or for representing that she drew an angel to her by its notes. Cf. 733, 161-170. 63. Untune. When this world and the heavenly bodies are destroyed, the music of the spheres will cease; thus Music (the blast of the divine Trumpet) will untune (make incapable of harmony) the sky. The antithesis of music shall untune continues that of the dead shall live, the living die, and is typically Drydenian in style. Thus the universal frame ends, as it began, from harmony. Cf. SS. xviii. 312. EPIGRAM ON MILTON. "These lines were perhaps suggested by the distich written by Selvaggi in honor of the youthful poet, while he was at Rome, which Dryden has very happily amplified:

Græcia Mæonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem; Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem." MALONE, I, 1, 25. 4. Majesty. "Impressive stateliness of character, expression, or action" (N. E. D.); hence not a repetition of loftiness. BRITANNIA REDIVIVA. The heir of James II, the Princess Mary, was married to a Protestant, William, Prince of Orange. By the birth of a son to James her right to the throne after her father's death was set aside, and a Catholic succession seemed assured. Hence the exultation of the Catholic party, which Dryden expresses in this poem.

The motto is Georgics, i. 498-502; cf. 453, 668-675. Puerum, which has been substituted for juvenem of the original, of course refers to the infant prince, and perjuria to the false testimony of Oates and others, in consequence of which many innocent Catholics lost their lives. Cf. 255, 256, 146–164.

There are no significant variations of text in the two editions of 1688. The folio copy lacks the imprimatur that is found in the quarto, so that it is probably the later of the two.

254, 5. The day. June 10, 1688, of the old style corresponds to June 20 of the calendar now in use; Dryden here speaks of it as the longest day in the year.

9. Sun. The quibble on sun, son is unworthy of Dryden at this period. As far back as 1666 he had emphatically condemned paronomasia: cf. 251, 47, n.

35. Holy violence. Referring to the claims of the Catholics that the prince was sent in answer to their prayers; cf. 9, 139–144. 37. And late, etc. In imitation of Horace's, Serus in cælum redeas (Odes, i. 2. 45). 52. For see, etc. The opponents of James doubted the genuineness of the child; Dryden affects to believe that the doubts were confined to the Commonwealth party.

55. Alcides. v. 209, 447, n.

65. The manna, etc. v. Numbers xi. 4-6. 80. The sign. A reference to the legend that Constantine the Great (272-337) beheld in the heavens, before his elevation to the throne, a luminous cross, with the inscription, TOÚTY víka (conquer by this). Adopting for his standard the symbol of Christianity, he triumphed over his enemies; as emperor, he favored and protected the Christians; shortly before his death he was himself baptized. So Dryden suggests that James's adoption of Catholicism was an omen of Christian success in the war going on between the German Empire and the Turks, in which the English king was much interested.

255, 84. Sylvester. The present Pope of Dryden's note, Innocent XI, was in reality opposed to the policy of James II, and disliked the Jesuits, whose influence was predominant with the English king.

86. Large of his treasures. Christie notes the imitation of Virgil's largus opum (Eneid, xi. 338). Innocent XI had given large sums to aid the German Empire in its war with the Turks.

89. The former, etc. Constantine spent part of his youth in Britain. A mistaken opinion was current that he was born there, and that his mother was a British princess.

91. Whose exile, etc. Cf. nn. 145, 592; 148, 793. 94. Moon-ey'd. Purblind. The king's brief attempt to conciliate the Dissenters having failed, Dryden resumes his natural antipathy to them.

97. Shipwrack. v. 151, 152, 1065-1098, and headnote, p. 133.

102. The surviving eight. v. Genesis vii. 13. 118. Born, etc. The birth took place at about ten o'clock in the morning, in the presence of numerous witnesses.

121. Eaglet. v. 31, 11, n.

128. Not, etc. v. 532, 822-833.

152. Rebellion. "The great Civil War." SCOTT. 256, 154. Plagues. v. 48, 1066, n. 156. Fire. Cf. 44-51.

157. Plots. v. 111, 108, n.

Test. v. n. 216 (To the Reader); 244, 1992, n. 158. Worse. The deaths of Catholics executed for supposed complicity in the Plot. 165. Enough, etc. "All the queen's former children died in infancy." SCOTT.

169. Enough, etc. "The year 1688, big with so many events of importance, commenced very

unfavorably, with stormy weather, and an epidemical distemper among men and cattle." SCOTT.

176. Araunah's, etc. Dryden's reference should be to 2 Samuel xxiv. 18-25.

183. Year! The exclamation point is not found in the editions of 1688.

184. Five months, etc. "During the five months preceding the birth of the Chevalier de St. George, James was wholly engaged by those feuds and dissensions which tended to render irreparable the breach between him and his subjects. Dryden, like other men of sense, probably began to foresee the consequences of so violent and general irritation; and expresses himself in moderate and soothing language, both as to the past and future. Nothing is therefore dropped which can offend the Church of England." [SCOTT.]

190. Conscience, etc. Cf. 246, 2117, 2118. 199. Rome. The Latin words in the footnote mean, "lest enemies should entice away the gods by incantations." When the gods had deserted a city, it was thought to be doomed; cf. 542, 471-474; 15, 19-22.

216. Estian race. Cf. headnote, p. 133. 257, 237. Gigantic brood. Dryden's note exaggerates stories told, not of the giants, but of the Aloeidæ, Otus and Ephialtes, who, when only nine years old, threatened the Olympian gods with war, and would have succeeded in their rebellion, had they been allowed to reach manhood. Cf. 604, 784 f.

257. Mercy, etc. v. Matthew xiv. 31. 258, 296. Amalek. Cf. 271, 28, n. 304. But you, etc. "The address to the queen has all the smoothness with which Dryden could vary the masculine character of his general poetry, when he addressed the female sex, and forms a marked contrast to the more majestic tone of the rest of the piece." [SCOTT.] 306. Beyond, etc. Cf. 40, 639, n; 208, 353. 259, 15. Jove, etc. Cf. 655, 167.

21. When, etc. An allusion to the gradual exclusion of French wine, owing to the war, which culminated, ten years later, in the Methuen treaty and the establishment of port as the staple drink." [SAINTSBURY.]

By the Methuen treaty (Dec. 27, 1703) England agreed to admit Portuguese wines on payment of two thirds of the duty imposed on French wines.

41. Horses, etc. "Alluding to the act for disarming the Catholics, which provided that no Papist should keep a horse or horses above the value of five pounds." [SCOTT.]

260, 36. And make, etc. Alluding to the addresses upon the Revolution." SCOTT. 1. Nostradame, etc. Cf. 242, 1814, n. 4. Our vast expenses. Owing to the elaborate scenery required for an opera.

2611, 34. Our blacks. "It was the fashion, at this time, to have black boys in attendance, decorated with silver collars." [SCOTT.]

46. Selling, etc. v. 136, 181, n.

47. Dumfounding, etc. "Explained by a stage direction in Shadwell's Bury Fair (act iii,

sc. 1), where 'Sir Humphrey dumfounds the count with a smart rap on the shoulders.' The humor seems to have consisted in doing this with such dexterity that the party dumfounded should be unable to discover to whom he was indebted for the favor." [SCOTT.] 2611, 17. Julian's. "Julian, who styled himself Secretary to the Muses, made a dirty livelihood by copying and dispersing lampoons at Will's Coffee-House." [SCOTT.] Cf. 921.

Interloping. Cf. 128, 41, n.

20. The first, etc. "The poetasters of that age were so numerous and so active that the most deplorable attempt at wit or satire was usually answered in one which was yet worse. Parody and personal abuse were the implements of this warfare, which sometimes extended to answers, replies, rejoinders, rebutters, and surrebutters, all only distinguished by malignant scurrility." SCOTT. Cf. 3082, 39-42. 262. MERCURY'S SONG TO PHEDRA. The intrigue between these characters is of Dryden's own invention; Phædra is one of Alcmena's slaves. 2631, 31. Height. This spelling, contrasting with heighth six lines later, is a fair sample of the inconsistencies of the early editions. Cf. leafs, leaves (460, 498, 515); been, bin (829, 515, 549); elfs, elves (872, 3; 873, 34). 2632. Mr. Williams. "This was quite in charac

ter. Cibber says of Williams (Apology, ch. vi), that his industry was not equal to his capacity, for he loved his bottle better than his business." SCOTT.

2641, 10. Cork. "The taking of Cork was one

of the first exploits of the renowned Marlborough. The assault began on September 25, 1690, and the city surrendered on September 28." [SCOTT.]

35. Peace and the butt. Cf. 245, 2053, n. 264, 11. He, etc. Shovel-board was played by sliding coins or metal weights over a long smooth table. The highest score was gained by making the coin hang over the edge of the table; if it went the merest trifle further, it fell into the box, or trough placed to catch it. To score at all, the piece must cross a line drawn about four feet from the end of the table; this is apparently what is meant by laying the piece. v. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes.

2651, 37. Ottobuoni. Cardinal Ottoboni became pope in 1689, as Alexander VIII, and died on February 1, 1691. He had been hostile to France, and friendly to the German Empire, hence to England as well. The policy of his successor was naturally a matter of much speculation. This reference settles the date of presentation of King Arthur; Innocent XII, Alexander's successor, was elected on July 12. Mrs. Bracegirdle. Anne Bracegirdle (1663?1748), a beautiful and talented actress, and a woman well reputed," spoke this indecent epilogue.

2681. EPITAPH ON ERASMUS LAWTON. The text is from a copy of the inscription courteously furnished to the editor by the Reverend

William Woodward, Rector of Great Catworth.

2682. THE LADY'S SONG. The text in Buckingham's Works reads Ladies (for beauties) in

1. 1 and the (for our) in l. 7.

269. EPITAPH ON DUNDEE. The text in Poetical Miscellanies has the following variants: (5) Scotland and Thee; (6) Nor wou'dst thou her; (7) dying did support.

ELEONORA. For the motto, cf. 596, 194-197: the original edition, after Eneid, reads only "I. 6;" in the last line it reads Diis.

2691, 5 (prose). Ovid. v. Tristia, i. 1. 2692, 10 (prose). My disease. The gout, according to Malone, who cites no authority for his statement.

2702, 4. Dr. Donne. Cf. 283a, 22-45; 3171, 4351; n. 736, 20. Donne states in a letter to George Gerrard (?): "Since I never saw the gentlewoman, I cannot be understood to have bound myself to have spoken just truth; but I would not be thought to have gone about to praise anybody in rhyme, except I took such a person as might be capable of all that I could say. If any of those ladies think that Mistress Drury was not so, let that lady make herself fit for all those praises in the book, and it shall be hers." GOSSE, Life and Letters of John Donne, i. 302.

2711, 24. The dragon's teeth. Alluding to the legend of Cadmus, who, having slain a dragon, sowed its teeth, whereupon armed men sprang up, who immediately fell to fighting and slew one another, leaving only five survivors. 33. An elected Speaker of the House. The Speaker of the House of Commons has not the right to take part in debates.

272, 71. Pharaoh, etc. v. Genesis xli. 273, 181. So subjects, etc. A reproach to the English, who had driven into exile James II. 193. Her children, etc. "Lady Abingdon had six sons and three daughters." [SCOTT.]

On Charity, cf. Spenser, Faerie Queene, I. x. 4, 16, 29-33.

197. Anchises. v. 606, 921 f.

201. Cybele. The mother of Jupiter and other deities; cf. 639, 94, 127; 640, 142.

274, 207. And as, etc. Apparently a loose reference to Exodus xvi. 11-31. 252. Bodies. Cf. 219, 95, n. 273. Orb. Cf. 1, 27, n.

275, 299. Her Savior's time. The age at which he is said to have been crucified.

325. Courtier. Christie well compares 132,

20-23.

339. The third errand. "Enoch and Elijah were the two former instances, though the chariot is not especially mentioned in Enoch's case.' [SAINTSBURY.] v. Genesis v. 24; 2 Kings ii. 11. 276, 7. Would wonder, etc. Cf. 275, 295–298. 23. Thus then, etc. Cf. 275, 303-305. 278, 9. The Spanish nymph. Apparently a reference to the "Spanish plot" of Southerne's play; cf. B. S. xviii.

11. But let, etc. Cf. 7341, 21, 22. 18. Nokes. A celebrated actor of low comic parts; cf. 61', 7; n. 603, 1.

27. Copy, etc. Etherege died early in 1691; Wycherley survived until 1716. 2792, 22. Mr. Fuller. "William Fuller was an in

former who pretended to make discovery of a formidable plot by the Jacobites against the government. The House of Commons, finding him unable to produce the witnesses to whom he referred, on February 24, 1692, declared him a notorious impostor, a cheat, and a false accuser.' He was prosecuted by the attorney general and punished by the pillory; notwithstanding which he did not profit by Mrs. Bracegirdle's legacy, for in 1702 he was sentenced to the same painful elevation for publishing more false statements." [SCOTT.] 2801. Mrs. Bracegirdle. Cf. 2651, n. In Henry the Second she played the part of Rosamond, who dies of a draught of poison given her by Queen Eleanor.

2802, 20. Haynes. "The facetious Joe Haynes became a Catholic in the latter part of James II's reign. But after the Revolution he read his recantation of the errors of Rome, in a penitentiary prologue." [Scorт.] Cf. 701, 45, n; 9002, 47, n.

22. Chapels of ease. Cf. 242, 1834, n. 281. TRANSLATIONS FROM JUVENAL AND PERSIUS.

The editor has been unable to consult the second edition of this work. The first motto is Juvenal, i. 85, 86: cf. 324, 130-132. The second is Martial, iv. 29. 7, 8: "Persius is more often noticed for his one book of Satires than the empty Marsus for his whole Amazonid." The following notes make almost. no attempt to explain the substance of Juvenal and Persius, to comment on Dryden's deviations from the literal sense of the Latin, or to correct errors in his commentary. The headings of Dryden's notes are taken literally from the original edition. In a few cases, as 334, n. 10, they differ from the reading of the text. Cf. n. 418 (VIRGIL). This edition also follows the original in omitting the headings of certain notes.

2821. Dorset. Charles Sackville (1638–1706), Earl of Dorset, to whom in 1668 Dryden had dedicated An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. He became Lord Chamberlain in 1689 and held the office until 1697. v. 412, 48, n.

12. The delight, etc. Cf. 113, 318, n. 2831, 37. Themistocles. Every Greek general in

the Persian wars voted for himself as the most deserving, but the majority assigned the second place to Themistocles. v. Herodotus, viii. 123.

41. Longo, etc. VIRGIL, Eneid, v. 320, with a change of proximus to proximi: cf. 583, 420. 51. Lyric poems. "These lyrical pieces, after all, are only a few smooth songs, where wit is sufficiently overbalanced by indecency." SCOTT.

2832, 4. The best, etc. Said of Dorset by Rochester, in An Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace. On Rochester, v. B. S. xxii, xxv, xxvi: cf. 7442, 11; 515', 46-48.

"The satires of Lord Dorset seem to have consisted in short lampoons, if we may judge of those which have been probably lost from such as are known to us." [SCOTT.] 22. Donne. Pope probably took from this passage the hint for his Satires of Dr. John Donne, Versified. On Donne, cf. 2702, 4, n. 38. He affects, etc. This passage probably suggested the title metaphysical poets, which Dr. Johnson gave to Donne, Cowley, and their school.

47. Cowley. v. 1811, 45, n.

284', 32. Cicero. Tusc. Disp. v. 16: Cicero, however, there passes over fame, as a matter of small consequence.

33. Virgil. Cf. 567, 252-254.

35. Epicurus. v. Lucretius, vi. 58 f. 284, 25. At rovers. To shoot at rovers is, according to C. D.: "(a) To shoot an arrow for distance or at a mark, but with an elevation, not point-blank; or to shoot an arrow at a distant object, not the butt, which was nearer. (b) To shoot at random, or without any particular aim." Cf. 812, 77.

28. The Rehearsal. v. B. S. xxi. Davenant and the Howards were attacked in The Rehearsal as well as Dryden.

2851, 47. A shilling, etc. "The four scepters were placed saltire-wise upon the reverse of guineas, till the gold coinage of his present majesty." SCOTT. "The bath is the chemist's bath, used for gilding." [KER.]

286', 2. Eighteen thousand lines. Really about fourteen thousand.

5. Martial. Epigrams, viii. 18.

2862, 10. Of your Lordship in the latter sort. Ker emends to In your . . . of the sonable but not a certain correction.

; a rea

"Would it be imagined that, of this rival to antiquity, all the satires were little personal invectives, and that his longest composition was a song of eleven stanzas? The blame, however, of this exaggerated praise falls on the encomiast, not upon the author; whose performances are, what they pretend to be, the effusions of a man of wit; gay, vigorous, and airy." JOHNSON, Life of Dorset. 50. Tasso. Professor Ker points out that Dryden is indebted to Tasso's Lettere Poetiche, published with the first edition of his Discorsi in 1587, and probably also to Segrais' preface to his Traduction de l'Eneide and to Rapin's Reflexions sur la Poëtique, ii. 13. 2871, 15. Owen's Epigrams. The Latin epigrams of John Owen (1560?-1622) won popularity both in England and on the Continent; cf. 5151, 27.

32. St. Lewis, etc. Epic poems by Le Moyne, Chapelain, and Georges de Scudéry, all published in the years 1654-58: cf. 4912, 4 f. 2872, 5. But Prince Arthur, etc. Dryden's statement is without foundation in fact. 26. His event is not prosperous, etc. An idea reflected from René Le Bossu, Traité du Poëme Epique, ii. 17.

30. Mr. Rymer's work. "Mr. Rymer had promised to favor the public with some reflections