Dryden on the Kind Keeper

Extracts from (a) Dryden’s letter to Lord Latimer, July 1677 (Letters (1942), ed. C. E. Ward, pp. 11–12); (b) the Epistle Dedicatory of The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy (1680) to Lord Vaughan (Dryden’s Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas (1701), ii. 108).