BUTLER.C P. 271. 1. 10---15. r. Samuel Butler was born in the parish woof Strenfham, in Worcestershire; according to his bio grapher, in 1612. This account Dr. Nash finds con....firmed by the regifter: he was chriftened Feb. 14. -P. 272. 1. 3. r. but Mr. Longueville, the fon of Butler's principal friend, fays, &c. Ib. 1. 20. add, Dr. Nash has discovered that his father was owner of a house and a little land, worth about eight pounds a year, still called Butler's Tenement. P. 273. 1. 13. add, Some pictures faid to be his were fhewn to Dr. Nafh at Earl's Cromb; but when he enquired for them fome, years afterwards, he found them deftroyed, to stop windows; and owns, that they hardly deferved a better fate. P. 278. l. 13. add, and perhaps his health might now begin to fail. Ib 1. 19. add, Granger was informed by Dr. Pearce, who named for his authority Mr. Lowndes of the Treasury, that Butler had an yearly penfion of an hundred pounds. This is contradicted by all tradition, by. the complaints of Oldham, and by the reproaches of Dryden; and I am afraid will never be confirmed. P. 280. I. S. dele the date of his birth is doubtful. P. 281. l. 10. r. to trains of, &c. P. 290. 1. 25. r. which perplexed doctrine, difordered practice, and disturbed, &c. ROCHESTER. P. 303. 1. 17. r. thirty-fourth year. P. 307. 1. 21. r. of Rochefter, whose buffoon conceit was, I fuppofe, a faying often mentioned, that every man would be a coward if he durft. ROSCOM P ROSCO MIMO N. 315. 1. 2. r. was the fon of James Dillon and Elizabeth Wentworth, fifter to the earl of Strafford. He was. born in Ireland, during the lieutenancy of Strafford, .: who, being both his uncle and godfather, gave him his own furname. His father, the third. earl of Rofcommon, had been, &c. P. 316. 1. gura was fent to Caen. OTWAY. P. 341. 1. 17. r. where he is faid to have died of want. P. 342. I. 1. All this, I hope, is not true; and there is this ground of better hope, that Pope, who lived near enough to be well informed, relates in Spence's Memorials, that he died of a fever caught by violent purfuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends; but that indigence, and its concomitants, forrow and defpondency, preffed hard upon him, has never been denied, whatever immediate caufe might bring him to the grave. P. WALLER. P. 349. 1. 5. r. Neither of thefe pieces, that feem to carry their own dates, could have been the fudden effufion of fancy. In the verfes on the prince's efcape, the prediction of his marriage, &c... Ib. 1.11. r. could not be properly perufed. P. 353. 1. 10, r. praised fome whom, &c. P. 364. 1. ult. r. They proceeded with great caution. Three only met in one place, and no man was allowed to impart the plot to more than, two others fo that if any fhould be fufpected or feized, more than three could not be endangered. F. 365. 1. 13. r. for the Royalifts. 7734 P. 365. P. 365. l. 15. r. there were five for them. P. 368. 1. 12. r. May, 1643. P. 375. 1. 13. add, His crime was, that he had commiffion to raise money for the King; but it appears not that the money was to be expended upon the advancement of either Crifp or Waller's plot. Ib. 1. 23. r. Hampden escaped death, perhaps by the intereft of his family; but, &c. P. 395, 1. 14. r. he endeavored the improvement. P. 432. 1. ult. r. fome fpecies of merit. A Lub DORSE Tunique P. 435. 1. 5. r. as the author is fo generally read. STEPNE E X 10 P. 443.1.6. r. where he paffed fix years in the college, he went at nineteen to, Cambridge .. jalog 445. 1. 3. r. fuperaverit. Ib. 1. 6. r. parum, Famæ &c. : détenglast ones not I Ib. 1. 7. r. efflavit. T P. 477. 1. penult. . a scholar, but a man of fashion, and, alad Dennis remarks, oftentatiously splendid in his dress. 1 VOL VOLUME II. DR Y DE N. P. 4. 1. 16. After patrimony, 7. He was indeed fometimes reproached for his first religion. I am therefore inclined to believe that Derrick's intelligence was partly true, and partly erroneous. P. 8. 1. 2. r. but fince the plays are faid to be printed, &c. 10. r. which may be efteemed one, &c. P. 11. 1. P. 49. .I I. 18. add. When this was first brought upon the stage, news that the Duke of Monmouth had landed was told in the theatre, upon which the company departed, and Arthur was exhibited no more; Et I P. 51. 1. 21. 7. copioufly as occafions arofe. P. 59. 1. 20. r. Fanshaw, Denham, &c P. 83. 1. ult. r. nor have I met with any confirmation but in a letter of Farquhar, and he only relates that the funeral of Dryden was tumultuous and confufed. Suppofing the thing true, we may remark that the gradual change of manners, &c. .1 P. 100. 1. 6. r. helpless mifery. P. 106. 1. 1. r. One of his opinions will, &c. t Ib. 1. 11. dele and, &c. to true, l. 13.0 non av I P. 107. 1. 2. add, The letter added to this narrative leaves no room to doubt of his notions or practice. P. 108. 1. 16. regular and valuable treatise. q .{ P. 1,12, l. 18-22, 8, poured out his knowledge with little labour. P. 123. Ì. 6. r. should tranfmit to things. P. 130. l. 4. r. Davenant was perhaps at this time P. 134. 1. 12. r. gives the reader P. 137. P. 137. 1. S. add, for he complains of its difficulty. P. 155. 1. 22. r. what durable materials. P. 179. 1. 7. r. by reviving natural fentiments, or impref fing new appearances of things. Ib. 1. 18. r. are not always understood. Ib. 1. 24. r. objections and folutions at command. P. 193. 1. 3, 4. Though Davis has reafoned in rhyine before him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. SMITH. P. 247. 1.3, 4. r. the cenfor is a tutor, and it was not thought proper, &c. P. 260. 1. 17. r. verfuum ordinem &c. P. 261. 1. 11. Flacco] Pro Flaeco, animo paulo attentiore, fcripfiffem Marone. DUKE. P. 266. 1. 14. r. been bad in the first part of his life was, &c. KING. P. 273. 1. 14. add, on' a queftion which Learning only could decide. Ib. 1. 16. after Lifter, add, who had published A Journey to Paris. SPRAT. P. 289. 1. 7. 7. by my father, an old man. HALIFA X. P. 299. 1. 21. r. and, if the patron be an author, those &c. PARNEL L. P. 304. 1. 4. r. to the memory of Goldfinith. VOL. IV. M m GARTH. |