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Aubrey is the authority for the well-known story of Dryden’s visit to Milton to obtain permission “to tagge his verses.” Dr. Verrall was of opinion that it is probably apocryphal. This version of it, with additional details, seems to have escaped notice: “We shall here beg the Readers Pardon for mentioning a Passage told a Gentleman of our Society almost Forty years since by Mr. Dryden,