among the meagre crowd appeared,
An old, revolted, unbelieving bard,
Who thronged, and shoved, and pressed, and would be heard.

"Sakil's high roof, the Muse's palace, rung
With endless cries, and endless songs he sung.
To bless good Sakil Laurus would be first;
But Sakil's prince and Sakil's God he curst.
Sakil without distinction threw his bread,
Despised the flatterer, but the poet fed."

Laurus, of course, stands for Dryden, and Sakil for Dorset.]

[Footnote 23: The Squire of Alsatia is said to have realized him £130.]

[Footnote 24: An Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace.--The word "censure" will, of course, be understood to mean judgment, not condemnation.]

[Footnote 25: Imitation of Horace, Bk. ii. Epist. i.]

[Footnote 26: See the History of England, Vol. IV., Chapter 17, for reference to Shadwell's Volunteers.]

[Footnote 27: History of England, Chapter 19.]