If the admirers of Dryden were active in the condemnation of Higden's play, the offence probably lay in these verses.
It seems likely that Higden's translation, of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal, which I have never seen, was printed before Dryden published his own version, in 1693; consequently, before the damnation of the "Wary Widow," acted in the same year, which seems to have been attended with a quarrel between Dryden and the author. It is therefore very probable, that this Epistle should have stood earlier in the arrangement: but, having no positive evidence, the Editor has not disturbed the former order.
EPISTLE THE ELEVENTH.
T he Grecian wits, who satire first began,
Were pleasant Pasquins on the life of man;
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