[5]. Cf. the phrase "Twofold might" in Absalom and Achitophel, I, 175.
[6]. Review of English Studies, I (1925) 82-83.
[7]. In his Notes upon Mr. Dryden's Poems in Four Letters (1687) Clifford, in 16 pages, accuses Dryden of plagiarism, especially in Almanzor.
[8]. "The Attacks on John Dryden," Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, XXI, 41-74.
[9]. Joseph Spence, Anecdotes ... of Books and Men (1858), p. 51.
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[10]. Modern Philology, XXV (1928) 409-416.
[11]. e.g., over The Empress of Morocco; see Scott's Dryden, XV, 397-413.
[Transcriber’s Footnote:]
"the volume of the California Dryden relevant to Absalom is still awaited"
This Introduction was written in 1959. Volume II of the California Edition (The Works of John Dryden) was published in 1972.