Note 4 — THOMAS OTWAY.
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Tom Otway came next, Tom Shadwell's dear Zany, And swears for heroics he writes best of any; Don Carlos his pockets so amply had filled That his mange was quite cured and his lice were all killed; But Apollo had seen his face on the stage, And prudently did not think fit to engage The scum of a playhouse for the prop of an age.
Wood mentions that it was reported the poet came back from Flanders "mangy, and covered with vermin."