Note 135 — THE ART OF PAINTING;
Reading edition
A comedy written by Sir Robert Stapylton, and acted by the Duke of York’s servants, at their theatre in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, in 1663. Dryden has elsewhere undervalued this play, Vol. X. p. 336:
Your Ben and Fletcher, in their first young flight, Did no Volpone, nor no Arbaces write; But hopped about, and short excursions made } From bough to bough, as if they were afraid; } And each was guilty of some “Slighted Maid.” }
Sir Robert Stapylton, the author of the “Slighted Maid,” translated Juvenal and Musæus, and wrote other two plays, called “The Step-mother,” and “Hero and Leander.”