Note 126 — DRYDEN’S LETTERS. LETTER I. TO THE FAIRE HANDS OF MADAME HONOR DRYDEN THESE CRAVE ADMITTANCE.56
Reading edition
In MS. Harl. p. 35, in the Museum, are the following verses, occasioned by this circumstance:
“To be published in the next edition of Dryden’s Virgil.
“Old Jacob, by deep judgment swayed, To please the wise beholders, Has placed old Nassau’s book-nosed head On poor Æneas’ shoulders, “To make the parallel hold tack, Methinks there’s little lacking; One took his father pick-a-pack, And t’other sent his packing.”
In a copy I have seen of this epigram, “poor” Æneas is improved into “young” Æneas.”