Excerpt from The Satires of Dryden: Absalom and Achitopel, the Medal, Mac Flecknoe To prevent possible misunderstanding I ought per haps to add, that in the Memoir and General Intro duction I have incorporated, here and there, a few sentences from an article on Dryden contributed by me some years ago to the Quarterly Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.