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Rh, whom I have named already, and Beaumont and Fletcher, who have sometimes touched the Passions with a masterly Hand, we must come down to  Dryden and Otway, who stand almost alone, unless Lee may be joined unto them, but he is too much out of the Way, too much in a Passion to be named, and therefore we will put Southern in his Room. Afterwards we have none of Consideration, but Congreve, Rowe, and Mr. Granville, and two Oxford Scholars, who need not be pointed out.

I do not insist on the particular Character of these Authors, thinking it enough to my Purpose to name them, as the most distinguished of our Tragic Writers. Rh