The above were thrown in Dryden's grave. We are assured they were never
in print before.


[Footnote 1: Athen. Oxon.]

[Footnote 2: He might have added, 'twas unnatural.]

[Footnote 3: Defence, or the Essay on Dramatic Poetry.]

[Footnote 4: Original Poems.]

[Footnote 5: This was written before Mr. Dodsley's edition of Virgil in
English appeared.]

[Footnote 6: Essay on Criticism.]

[Footnote 7: Life of Congreve.]

[Footnote 8: In Millar's edition of the bishop's work, we have the
following note upon this passage. 'This (says the editor) must be
understood of his performances for the stage; for as to his personal
character, there was nothing remarkably vicious in it: but his plays
are, some of them, the fullest of obscenity of any now extant.']

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Sir CHARLES SEDLEY, Bart.