e a Martial to the manes of
Catullus: In imitation of this, a celebrated poet, in the preface
before the Spanish Friar, is pleased to acquaint the world, that he
has indignation enough to burn a Bussy D'Amboys, annually, to the
memory of Ben Jonson. Since the modern ceremony, of offering up one
author at the altar of another, is likely to advance into a
fashion; and having already the authority of two such great men to
recommend it, the courteous reader may be pleased to take notice,
that the author of the following dialogue is resolved, (God
willing) on the festival of the Seven Sleepers, as long as he
lives, to sacrifice the Hind and Panther to the memory of Mr
Quarels and John Bunyan: Or, if a writer that has notoriously
contradicted himself, and espoused the quarrel of two different
parties, may be considered under two distinct characters, he
designs to deliver up the author of the Hind and Panther, to be
lashed severely by, and to beg pardon of, the worthy gentleman that
wrote the Spanish Friar, and the Religion Laici." _The reason of Mr
Bayes' changing his religion._ Preface.

6. "The Revolter," a tragi-comedy, 1687, p. 29.

7. It is impossible to avoid transcribing the whole account of this
representation, with some other curious particulars, contained in a
letter from the earl of Nottingham, published by Sir John
Dalrymple, from a copy given him by the bishop of Dromore; and also
inserted by Mr Malone in his third volume of Dryden's prose works.

"I am loth to send blank paper by a carrier, but am rather willing
to send some of the tattle of the town, than nothing at all; which
will at least serve for an hour's chat,--and then convert the
scrawl to its proper use.

"The only day her Majesty gave herself the diversion of a play, and
that on which she designed to see another, has furnished the town
with discourse for near a month. The choice of the play was THE
SPANISH FRIAR, the only play forbid by the late K[ing], Some
unhappy expressions, among which those that follow, put her in some
disorder, and forced her to hold up her fan, and often look behind
her, and call for her palatine and hood, and any thing she could
next think of; while those who were in the pit before her, turned
their heads over their shoulders, and all in general directed their
looks towards her, whenever their fancy led them to make an