ABSTRACT
Extract from a letter by the dramatist George Farquhar (1677–1707) on Dryden’s burial in Westminster Abbey on 13 May 1700. ‘No Ambassador from the greatest Emperor in all the Universe,’ said The London Spy (1700; II. vi), ‘sent over with a Welcome Embassy to the Throne of England, ever made his Publick Entry to the Court, with half that Honour, as the Corps of the Great Dryden did its last Exit to the Grave’. Farquhar saw more deeply into the event. Text from Dryden’s Prose Works (1800), ed. E. Malone, I. i. 363.
