THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME SIXTH.

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LIMBERHAM;

OR,

THE KIND KEEPER.

A
COMEDY.

LIMBERHAM.

The extreme indelicacy of this play would, in the present timesfurnish ample and most just grounds for the unfavourable receptionit met with from the public. But in the reign of Charles II. manyplays were applauded, in which the painting is, at least, as coarse asthat of Dryden. "Bellamira, or the Mistress," a gross translation bySir Charles Sedley of Terence's "Eunuchus," had been often representedwith the highest approbation. But the satire of Dryden wasrather accounted too personal, than too loose. The character of Limberhamhas been supposed to represent Lauderdale, whose ageand uncouth figure rendered ridiculous his ungainly affectation offashionable vices. Mr Malone intimates a suspicion, that Shaftesburywas the person levelled at, whose lameness and infirmities made thesatire equally poignant. In either supposition, a powerful andleading nobleman was offended, to whose party all seem to havedrawn, whose loose conduct,

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