Note 63 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Reading edition
The couplet ran thus in the first edition, with less neatness and perspicuity:
Those hate as rivals all that write; and others But envy wits as eunuchs envy lovers.
The inaccuracy of the rhymes excited him to alteration, which occasioned a fresh inconvenience, that of similar rhymes in the next couplet but one.—Wakefield.
Dryden's Prologue to the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada:
They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.