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Dryden was born Life to the End of the Commonwealth. in a Northamptonshire village about eighty miles north of London, August 9, 1631. He attended Westminster School under Doctor Busby (who, it will be remembered, once whipped Sir Roger de Coverley's grandfather see The Spectator, No. 329), and Trinity College, Cambridge. Though he did not obtain a fellowship, he remained in Cambridge for three years after his graduation in 1654, apparently engaged in study. On the death of his father he inherited property enough to support him; and from Cambridge he moved to London, which from that time was his residence.

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After the portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

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First Poems.
the death of Cromwell
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this for half a yeare of my salary: But I have two other Advocates,
my extiones trants, even almost to arresting, &f my ill health, which.
Canasts be repaird without immediate retireing into the Country.
A quarters allowance is but the Jesuites ponder
the fit will return a fortnight force. If I durst I wond
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et seen unserviceable to the memory is reputation of
your father. After this, My Lord, my conscience assures
you. I have thre
write bolilly, though I cauit sprake to
mans estate of freed them all up to learning beyond
on Fortune, but they are 1-0 Apefult to be neglected though strat
Be pleased is loke on me with an eye of compoforot; some so th
condition easy. The King is not un-
Employment wou'd reader by so then promilid me his assistance es
satisfyed of me, the Duke-
Your Lordship is the Condit through which their favours pasie.
Either in the Customes, or the Appeales of the Excise, or some other
may means canst be working if you please to have the will
The enough I for
one fige to have reflected Mr Corley, and Stawd
Mr Butler, but neither of them had the Ruppings to live tell your
Lordship's Ministry. In the neare time be pleasd to give me a gracious
and speedy answer to
my privent request of Ralfe a yeares pention
an queping to unite forsirket by his Majesty's
for ich richtiges. Dan goopy to write forsket
command, & cheat Heir to the Courting for my Rearth and Studies
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Your Co Humble Rossant
Ladships,

John Dryden.

FACSIMILE OF A LETTER OF DRYDEN. (British Museum.)

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