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The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Dryden, Junior

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John Dryden, Junior.

THis Gentleman is second Son to the abovesaid great Poet of that Name, and is now living in Rome, in the Pope's Service, as a Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber, where he wrote a Play, call'd,

The Husband his own Cuckold, a Comedy 4to. 1696. Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majesty's Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Howard, &c., and is usher'd into the World by a Preface of his Father, who in it indeed shews the tenderness of a Parent, but I think not the Impartiality and Justice of a true Critick, when he excludes all from Poetry and Nature but his Friends, at least since the Revolution. The young Gentleman in his Epistle, has gone a little too far for a Beginner, as yet too uncertain of his own Success, to fall upon the other Writers of the Age.