in the unauthorised edition
of Prior's Poems, 1707, a volume the poet himself repudiated. In
the Cambridge edition of Prior's _Works_ (1905-7), reason is given,
however, to show that the lines are certainly Prior's, and that he
withdrew this and other satires (says Curll, the bookseller), owing
to 'his great Modesty'. The Horatian tag (Epistles i, xiv, 19) is of
course 'O Imitatores servum pecus'.]

[Footnote 55: In his _Preface Concerning Ovid's Epistles_ affixed to
the translation of the _Heroides_ (_Ovid's Epistles_), 'by Several
Hands' (1680), Dryden writes: 'The Reader will here find most of the
Translations, with some little Latitude or variation from the
Author's Sence: That of _Oenone_ to _Paris_, is in Mr. Cowley's way
of Imitation only. I was desir'd to say that the Author who is of
the _Fair Sex_, understood not _Latine_. But if she does not, I am
afraid she has given us occasion to be asham'd who do.']

[Footnote 56: 'Old Mr. John Bowman, the player, told me that Mrs.
Behn was the First Person he ever knew or heard of who made the
Liquor call'd Milk Punch.' --Oldys; MS. note in Langbaine. In a
tattered MS. recipe book, the compilation of a good housewife named
Mary Rockett, and dated 1711, the following directions are given how
to brew this tipple. 'To make Milk Punch. Infuse the rinds of
8 Lemons in a Gallon of Brandy 48 hours then add 5 Quarts of Water
and 2 pounds of Loaf Sugar then Squize the Juices of all the Lemons
to these Ingredients add 2 Quarts of new milk Scald hot stirring the
whole till it crudles grate in 2 Nutmegs let the whole infuse 1 Hour
then refine through a flannel Bag.']

[Footnote 57: 'She always Writ with the greatest ease in the world,
and that in the midst of Company, and Discourse of other matters.
I saw her my self write _Oroonoko_, and keep her own in Discoursing
with several then present in the Room.' --Gildon: _An Account of the
Life of the Incomparable Mrs. Behn_, prefixed to _The Younger
Brother_ (4to 1696). Southerne says, with reference to _Oroonoko_,
'That she always told his Story, more feelingly than she writ it.']

In 1690, there was brought out on the stage a posthumous comedy, _The
Widow Ranter_.[58] But without her supervision, it was badly cast, the
script was mauled, and it failed. In 1696 Charles Gildon, who posed as
her favourite protege (and edited her writings), gave _The Younger
Brother_. He