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e had refused to write an elegy on the
death of Queen Mary in ????. Tonson at once became even less co-
operative than before; one day he refused point-blank to do Dryden some
small serviceand the poet sat down and gave these three lines to a
messenger with the injunction: ‘Tell the dog that he who wrote these can
write more’. The lines were:
With leering looksbull-faced and freckled fair
With two left legsand Judas-coloured hair
And frowsy pores that taint the ambient air.
Tonson hastened to comply––but in the end got his own backfor
although he did not get the desired dedication to the Kinghe cunningly
altered each picture of Aeneas to resemble His Majesty whose hook-nose
was one of his most notable features.
Drydenfor all his tweaking of Tonson’s earwas half afraid of him;
after allit was his livelihood that was at stake in these exchanges. One
day at home Dryden was entertaining a young manHenry St Johnlater
to become famous as Viscount Bolingbroke; St John heard someone else
enter the house. Dryden broke o? his conversation and said to him: ‘This
is Tonson; you will take care not to depart before he goes away: for I have
not completed the sheet which I promised him; [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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