[Footnote 5:]

It is the last sentence in Part III of the

Poetics

.

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[Footnote 6:]

Nathaniel Lee died in 1692 of injury received during a drunken frolic. Disappointed of a fellowship at Cambridge, he turned actor; failed upon the stage, but prospered as a writer for it. His career as a dramatist began with

Nero

, in 1675, and he wrote in all eleven plays. His most successful play was the

Rival Queens