ABSTRACT
Extracts from The Tory-Poets: A Satyr, 1682; attributed on inadequate evidence to Shadwell (Complete Works (1927), ed. M. Summers, v. 273–87). I ‘heartily wish’, says the author in his ‘Epistle to the Tories’, ‘I had some of Mr. Bays his confidence, that I might speak in the praise of my own Poem, as he doth of his, indeed a rotten Post covered with Brass goes through all weathers, but I am no fond fool of my own Issue.’ Other poets attacked in the poem are Otway, D’Urfey, and Aphra Behn.
