And find as little mercy as they show!
The actors thus, and thus thy poets pray;
For every critic saved, thou damn'st a play.
EPILOGUE
TO THE
HUSBAND HIS OWN CUCKOLD.
This play was written by John Dryden, Junior, son to our poet. See the preface among our author's prose works. It was dedicated to Sir Robert Howard, and acted in 1696.
Like some raw sophister that mounts the pulpit,
So trembles a young poet at a full pit.