[81] What this circumstance was cannot now be discovered.
[82] The Duchess of Ormond died July 1684.
[83] The first edition of Lord Roscommon’s “Essay on Translated Verse” appeared in 1684, and a second edition was published by Jacob Tonson in 4to, early in 1685.
[84] In the first edition it stood,
“That here his conqu’ring ancestors was nurs’d.”
[85] Latin Verses by Charles Dryden, prefixed to Lord Roscommon’s Essay.
[86] Knightly Chetwood. He wrote Lord Roscommon’s life.
[87] Dryden was now about to publish the second volume of the Miscellanies; in which it would appear to have been settled, that nothing should be inserted but what was new. “Religio Laici,” therefore, as having been formerly published, was laid aside for the present.
[88] Probably “Albion and Albanius,” which was afterwards completed and ready to be performed in Feb. 1684-5.
[89] The singing Opera was probably that of “King Arthur,” to which “Albion and Albanius” was originally designed as a prelude. But it was not acted till after the Revolution.