[26] The Advertisement is on the recto of a leaf added after [a4]; "The ERRATA for the Preface" appears on the verso. For an account of Oldham's "A Satyr Against Vertue," published without his consent in 1679, see Wood, IV, 120.
[27] Hugh Macdonald, "The Attacks on Dryden," Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, XXI (1936), 67.
[28] The Translators Epistle to the Reader, Amadis de Gaule (1652).
[29] Wood, III, 364.
[30] His father's coat of arms is described in Clark, I, 237. But for a conservative attitude toward use of the address, see Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England, the First Part, the Fifteenth Edition (London, 1684), p. 344.
[31] Wood, III, 367.
[32] Clifford makes the same charge of plagiarism in equally virulent language: "And next I will detect your Thefts, letting the World know how great a Plagery you are ..." (Notes upon Mr. Dryden's Poems [London, 1687], P. 3).
[33] Maximillian E. Novak, "Introduction," Settle, Dryden, Shadwell, Crowne, Duffet, The Empress of Morocco and Its Critics, The Augustan Reprint Society Special Series (Los Angeles, 1968), pp. i-xix. Novak also discusses Dryden's quarrels with Howard and the Rota.
[34] Account, p. 140, gives new information, or gossip, about Dryden's pre-Restoration activities.
[35] Loftis, pp. ix-xiii.