1. Charles Ward, The Life of John Dryden (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), p. 292. [BACK]

2. Reprinted in Drydeniana X: Late Criticism, 1688-98 (New York: Garland, 1975). [BACK]

3. Luke Milbourne, Notes on Dryden's Virgil (London, 1698; rpt. New York, Garland, 1974), p. II. All citations are to this reprint. [BACK]

4. A Tale of a Tub and The Battel of the Books , ed. A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 246. All citations of these works are to this edition. [BACK]