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Crewe MS/37/pp. 1–12
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‘Satyr. To his Muse. By the Author of Absalom and Achitophel’, by John Somers or Thomas Shadwell(?)
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Motto: ‘Quo liciat [sic] libris non licet ire mihi, | Turpiter huc illuc ingeniosus eo’ (an adaptation of Ovid, Amores, III. viii. 6, 8). First line: ‘Hear me, dull Prostitute, worse than a Wife’. The attribution to Dryden in the title is satirical.
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Printed separately, with only the satirical attribution, in 1682 (ESTC R7499). Printed in Works of Rochester, etc. (1756), ii. 52–60, under the heading ‘Dryden’s Satire to his Muse. Written by Lord Somers.’ See IELM, ii(2). 317, 321; ECS, p. 338; Henry Maddock, An Account of the Life and Writings of Lord Somers (1812), pp. 121–9; and Works of Shadwell, v. 263–72, 443–7. The grounds for the attribution to Shadwell are unclear.