[27] Hugh Macdonald, "The Attacks on Dryden," _Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association_, XXI (1936), 67. [28] The Translators Epistle to the Reader, _Amadis de Gaule_ (1652). [29] Wood, III, 364. [30] His father's coat of arms is described in Clark, I, 237. But for a conservative attitude toward use of the address, see Edward Chamberlayne, _Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England_, the First Part, the Fifteenth Edition (London, 1684), p. 344. [31] Wood, III, 367. [32] Clifford makes the same charge of plagiarism in equally virulent language: "And next I will detect your Thefts, letting the World know how great a Plagery you are ..." (_Notes upon Mr. Dryden's Poems_ [London, 1687], P. 3). [33] Maximillian E. Novak, "Introduction," Settle, Dryden, Shadwell, Crowne, Duffet, _The Empress of Morocco and Its Critics_, The Augustan Reprint Society Special Series (Los Angeles, 1968), pp. i-xix. Novak also discusses Dryden's quarrels with Howard and the Rota. [34] _Account_, p. 140, gives new information, or gossip, about Dryden's pre-Restoration activities. [35] Loftis, pp. ix-xiii. [36] This is a focus of Clifford's charges as well: "There is one of your Virtues which I cannot forbear to animadvert upon, which is your excess of Modesty; When you tell us in your Postscript to _Granada_, That _Shakespeare is below the Dullest Writer of Ours, or any precedent Age_" (p. 10). [37] Although Shakespeare's "Learning was not extraordinary," Langbaine "esteem[s] his Plays beyond any that have ever been published in our Language" (_Account_, pp. 453-454). In both _Momus_ and the _Account_ Langbaine employed the 1685 folio edition of Shakespeare's works which was printed for Herringman and others and dedicated to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery (Wing 2915, 2916, 2917). He catalogues the seven plays added in this edition to those of the earlier collected editions, but contrary to its genre designation in the First Folio and in this edition, Langbaine refers to _Merchant of Venice_ as a tragi-comedy and, in _Momus_, lists two parts of "John King of England." In the _Account_ he changes the designation of _Winter's Tale_ from comedy to tragi-comedy, and in both catalogues appends "Birth of Merlin," altering his description of its genre from pastoral to tragi-comedy. [38] Wood, III, 449. [39] See, for example, a review in the _Moderator_, no. 3 (23 June 1692); quoted in Wood, III, 367. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE This facsimile of _Momus Triumphans_ (1688 [1687]) is reproduced from a copy (*ZPR/640/L271m) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Momus Triumphans: OR, THE PLAGIARIES OF THE English Stage; Expos'd in a CATALOGUE OF ALL THE