. He was a
cock-brained man, and afterwards took orders."

[140] It was published in quarto in 1673, and has engravings of the
principal scene in each act, and a frontispiece representing
the Duke's Theatre in Dorset Gardens, where it was first acted
publicly; it had been played twice at court before this, by
noble actors, "persons of such birth and honour," says Settle,
"that they borrowed no greatness from the characters they
acted." The prologues were written by Lords Mulgrave and
Rochester, and the utmost _eclat_ given to the five long acts
of rhyming bombast, which was declared superior to any work of
Dryden's. As City Poet afterwards Settle composed the
pageants, speeches, and songs for the Lord Mayor's Shows from
1691 to 1708. Towards the close of his career he became
impoverished, and wrote from necessity on all subjects. One of
his plays, composed for Mrs. Mynns' booth in Bartholomew Fair,
has been twice printed, though both editions are now
uncommonly rare. It is called the "Siege of Troy;" and its
popularity is attested by Hogarth's print of Southwark Fair,
where outside of Lee and Harper's great theatrical booth is
exhibited a painting of the Trojan horse, and the announcement
"The Siege of Troy is here."--ED.

QUARRELS OF AUTHORS;

OR,

SOME MEMOIRS FOR OUR LITERARY HISTORY.

"The use and end of this Work I do not so much design for
curiosity, or satisfaction of those that are the lovers of
learning, but chiefly for a more grave and serious purpose:
which is, that it will _make learned men wise in the use and
administration of learning_."--LORD BACON, "Of Learning."

PREFACE.

THE QUARRELS OF AUTHORS may be considered as a continuation of the
CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS; and both, as some Memoirs for Literary
History.

These Quarrels of Authors are not designed to wound the Literary
Character, but to expose the secret arts of calumny, the malignity of
witty ridicule, and the evil prepossessions of unjust hatreds.

The present, like the preceding work, includes other subjects than the
one indicated by the title, and indeed they are both subservient to a
higher purpose--that of our Literary History.

There is a French work, entitled "Querelles Litteraires," quoted in
"Curiosities of Literature," many years ago. Whether