Mr. Dreyden, which was-That he tvrit as well as any maf;-that could write 110 better.

Now as for Mr. Dreyden, all these Errours wherewith he hath been tax'd, are so few and inconsiderable, that nothing but a self-conceited Envie could have spy'd: which implies, either that he never committed great Crimes, or that you had not the Wit to fmde them; to whom Mr. Dreyden makes this Application, in his Prologue to Maxintin:

Another defence of Dryden against the Rota (see Nos. 12, 13, 14), published anonymously in London with the title, A Description of the Academy of the Athenian Virtuosi: With a Discourse held there in Vindication of Mr. Dryden's Conquest ofGranada; Against the Author of the Censure of the Rota.