[29] See Footnote 26, Section II, this volume.

[30] Mr. Malone has seen a MS. copy of “Limberham” in its original state, found by Bolingbroke in the sweepings of Pope’s study.  It contained several exceptionable passages, afterwards erased or altered.

[31] Vol. vi.

[32] By allusion to the act for burying in woollen.

[33] [Transcriber’s note:  “See their Petition, page 88” in original.  This is to be found in Footnote 26, Section II.]

[34] Vol. vi.

[35] This is ridiculed in “Chrononhotonthologos.”

[36] Parallel of Poetry and Painting, vol. xvii.

[37] [Transcriber’s note:  “See page 181” in original.  This approximates to paragraphs preceding reference [26] in text, Section IV.]

[38] He is said to have cast the eyes of ambitious affection on the Lady Anne (afterwards queen), daughter of the Duke of York; at which presumption Charles was so much offended, that when Mulgrave went to relieve Tangier in 1680, he is said to have been appointed to a leaky and frail vessel, in hopes that he might perish; an injury which he resented so highly, as not to permit the king’s health to be drunk at his table till the voyage was over.  On his return from Tangier he was refused the regiment of the Earl of Plymouth; and, considering his services as neglected, for a time joined those who were discontented with the government.  He was probably reclaimed by receiving the government of Hull and lieutenancy of Yorkshire.  See vol. ix.

[39] In a poem called “The Laureat,” the satirist is so ill informed, as still to make Dryden the author of the “Essay on Satire.”  Surely it is unlikely to suppose, that he should have submitted to the loss of a pension, which he so much needed, rather than justify himself, where justification was so easy.  Yet his resentment is said to have been

“For Pension lost, and justly, without doubt: 
When servants snarl we ought to kick them out.
* * * * *
That lost, the visor changed, you turn about,
And straight a true-blue Protestant crept out. 
The Friar now was wrote; and some will say,
They smell a malcontent through all the play.”

See the whole passage, vol. vi.

[40] See, for this point also, the volume last quoted.

[41] In “A Modest Vindication of Antony, Earl of Shaftesbury, in a Letter to a Friend concerning his having been elected King of Poland,” Dryden is named poet-laureate to the supposed king-elect, and Shadwell his deputy.  See vol. ix.

[42] “Dryden being very desirous of knowing how much Southerne had made by the profits of one of his plays, the other, conscious of the little success Dryden had met with in theatrical compositions, declined the question, and answered, he was really ashamed to acquaint him.  Dryden continuing to be solicitous to be informed, Southerne owned he had cleared by his last play L700; which appeared astonishing to Dryden, who was perhaps ashamed to confess, that he had never been able to acquire, by any of his most successful pieces, more than L100.”—­Life of Southerne prefixed to his Plays.