rought upon the stage 'till after her
decease. He made very little alteration in it. Our author's plays have
not his name to them; and his fault lies generally in the stile, which
is too near an imitation of Lee's.

He wrote a piece called the New Rehearsal, or Bays the Younger;
containing an Examen of the Ambitious Step-mother, Tamerlane, The Biter,
Fair Penitent, The Royal Convert, Ulysses, and Jane Shore, all written
by Mr. Rowe; also a Word or Two on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock, to which
is prefixed a Preface concerning Criticism in general, by the Earl of
Shaftsbury, Author of the Characteristics, 8vo. 1714. Scene the Rose
Tavern. The freedom he used with Mr. Pope in remarking upon the Rape of
the Lock, it seems was sufficient to raise that gentleman's resentment,
who was never celebrated for forgiving. Many years after, Mr. Pope took
his revenge, by stigmatizing him as a dunce, in his usual keen spirit of
satire: There had arisen some quarrel between Gildon and Dennis, upon
which, Mr. Pope in his Dunciad, B. iii. has the following lines,

Ah Dennis! Gildon ah! what ill-starr'd rage
Divides a friendship long confirm'd by age?
Blockheads with reason wicked wits abhor,
But fool with fool is barb'rous civil war.
Embrace; embrace my sons! be foes no more,
Nor glad vile poets with true critics gore.

This author's other works are chiefly these,

The Post-Boy Robb'd of his Mail, or the Packet Broke Open; consisting of
Five Hundred Letters to several Persons of Quality, &c. 1692.

He published the Miscellaneous Works of Charles Blount, Esq; to which he
prefixed the Life of the Author, and an Account, and Vindication of his
Death, in 12mo. 1695. In this volume are several of the publisher's own
letters.

Likewise Letters, and Essays, on several Subjects, philosophical,
historical, critical, amorous, &c. in Prose and Verse, to John Dryden,
Esq; George Granville, Esq; Walter Moyle, Esq; Mr. Congreve, Mr. Dennis,
and other ingenious gentlemen of the age.

Miscellaneous Poems, on several Occasions, and Translations from Horace,
Persius, Petronius Arbiter, &c. with an Essay upon Satire, by the famous
M. Dacier, 8vo. 1692.

A Review of Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia's Letters to the Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury, and that of Sir Rowland Gwynn's, to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Stamford, 8vo. 1706.

Canons, or the Vision; a Poem, addressed to the Right Hon. James Earl of
Carnarvon, &c. 1717.

The Laws