to it, and struck therein also his note of war against the follies of Italian Opera.
Had Valentini, musically coy,
Shunned Phædra's Arms, and scorn'd the puffer'd Joy,
It had not moved your Wonder to have seen
An Eunich fly from an enamour'd Queen;
How would it please, should she in English speak,
And could Hippolitus reply in Greek!
The
Epilogue
to this play was by Prior. Edmund Smith's relation to Addison is shown by the fact that, in dedicating the printed edition of his
Phædra
and
Hippolitus
to Lord Halifax, he speaks of Addison's lines on the
Peace of Ryswick