Note 45 — TRANSLATIONS FROM JUVENAL. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Mr Lewis Maidwell, the author of a comedy called "The Generous Enemies," represented by the Duke's company 1680. In the prologue, as Mr Malone informs us, there is an allusion to Rochester's mean assault on Dryden:
Who dares be witty now, and with just rage Disturb the vice and follies of the age? With knaves and fools, satire's a dangerous fault; They will not let you rub their sores with salt: Else Rose street ambuscades shall break your head, And life in verse shall lay the poet dead.
It is only farther known of this gentleman, that he was a friend of Shadwell, who gave him the epilogue for his comedy, and that he taught a private school.