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in wrong years. I have followed Langbaine, as the best authority for his plays; and if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology, will publish it; but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous.

It had been told me, that in the College of Physicians there is fome memorial of Dryden's funeral, but the intelligence was not true; the ftory therefore wants the credit which fuch a teftimony would have given it. There is in Farquhar's Letters an indiftinct mention of it, as irregular and diforderly, and of the oration which was then . fpoken. More than this I have not difcovered.

Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere printed before. The

. former cdition I have not feen. This

was tranfcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript.

As this undertaking was occafional and unforeseen, I must be supposed to have engaged in it with less provision of materials than might have been accumulated by longer premeditation. Of the later writers at least I might, by attention and enquiry, have gleaned many particulars, which would have diverfified and enlivened my Biography. These omiffions, which it is now useless to lament, have been often supplied by the kindness of my friends; and great affistance has been given me by Mr. Spence's Collections, of which I confider the communication as a favour worthy of publick acknowledge

ment.

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