[75] See Walter Scott's edition of Dryden, vol. x., p. 372. "Abhorrers" were addressers on the side of the court, who had avowed "abhorrence" of the proceedings of the Whigs. The word was a capital one to sound through a trumpet.
[76] Aubrey says that his death took place in a cellar in Long Acre; and adds; "Mr. Edm. Wylde, &c., had made a collection for him, and given him money." But Aubrey's authority is not valid against Wood's. He is to be read like a proper gossip, whose accounts we may pretty safely reject or believe, as it suits other testimony.
[77] Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, fol. vol. ii., p. 145.
[78] Baker's Biographia Dramatica. Reed's edition, 1782, vol. i., p. 207.
[79] Malone in the Prolegomena to Shakspeare, as above, vol, iii., p. 287.
[80] Correspondence of Samual Richardson, &c., by Anna Letitia Barbauld, vol. i., p. 97.
[81] Our authority (one of the highest in this way) is Mr. Nichols, in his Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. iv., p. 579.
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