The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06
THE
NOW FIRST COLLECTED
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HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,
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In this play, (which I take to be the best comedy of his) he so much exposed the keeping part of the town, that the play was stopt when it had but thrice appeared on the stage; but the 004 author took a becoming care, that the things that offended on the stage, were either altered or omitted in the press. One of our modern writers, in a short satire against keeping, concludes thus:
Dryden, good man, thought keepers to reclaim,
Writ a kind satire, call'd it Limberham.
John Dryden
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WORKS
JOHN DRYDEN,
WITH NOTES,
A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
1808.
CONTENTS
VOLUME SIXTH.
LIMBERHAM;
LIMBERHAM.
PROLOGUE.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
LIMBERHAM;
KIND KEEPER.
ŒDIPUS.
ŒDIPUS.
PREFACE.
PROLOGUE.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
ŒDIPUS.
EPILOGUE.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA:
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.
THE PREFACE.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
SPANISH FRIAR;
THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY.
THE SPANISH FRIAR.
PROLOGUE.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
SPANISH FRIAR:
DOUBLE DISCOVERY.
END OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.