Note 50 — LITERARY IMPOSTURES.

Edmund Gayton was born in 1609, was educated at Oxford, then led the life of a literary drudge in London, where the best book he produced was Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote, in which are many curious and diverting stories, and among the rest the original of Prior's Ladle. He ultimately retired to Oxford, and died there very poor, in a subordinate place in his college.