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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: pamphlets, Dryden could refrain from pointing out to the public
the mistake into which they had fallen by honouring this man.
Nor was he singular in his feelings of animosity. The poets
Shadwell and Crowne, believing themselves ignored and neglected,
whilst their rival was enriched and exalted, joined Dryden in
writing a merciless criticism upon Settle's tragedy. This was
entitled "The Empress of Morocco, or some few erratas to be
printed instead of the sculptures [Illustrations.], with the
second edition of the play." In this Settle was described as "an
animal of a most deplored intellect, without reading and
understanding;" whilst his play was characterized as "a tale told
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