27. Our author has elsewhere expressed, in the same terms, his contempt for the satire of "The Rehearsal." "I answered not the Rehearsal, because I knew the author sat to himself when he drew the picture, and was the very Bayes of his own farce." _Dedication to Juvenal._--The same idea occurs in a copy of verses on the Duke of Buckingham sometimes ascribed to Dryden: But when his poet, John Bayes, did appear, 'Twas known to more than one-half that were there, That the great'st part was his Grace's character; For he many years plagued his friends for their crimes, Repeating his verses in other men's rhymes, To the very same person ten thousand times. _State Poems_, Vol. II, p. 216. 28. Besides those who were alarmed for civil liberty, and those who dreaded encroachment on their religion, the whig party, like every one which promises to effect a great political change, was embraced by many equally careless of the one motive or the other; but who hoped to indulge their licentious passions, repair their broken fortunes, or gratify their inordinate ambition amidst a revolutionary convulsion. 29. The motto to Hunt's pamphlet. 30. _Tantivi_ was a cant phrase for furious tories and high-flyers. In one of College's unlucky strokes of humour, he had invented a print called _Mac Ninny_, in which the Duke of York was represented half-jesuit half-devil; and a parcel of tories, mounted on the church of England, were driving it at full gallop, _tantivy_, to Rome. Hickeringill's poem, called "The Mushroom," written against our author's "Hind and Panther," is prefaced by an epistle to the tories and tantivies. 31. This passage is inaccurately quoted. Mr Hunt wrote, "Such monsters as Theseus and Hercules _are_, renowned throughout all ages for destroying." The learned gentleman obviously meant that Dryden's heroes (whom he accounted tyrants) resembled not the demi-gods, but the monsters whom they destroyed. But the comma is so unhappily placed after _are_, as to leave the sense capable of the malicious interpretation which Dryden has put upon it.