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Notes.

DRYDEN, POPE, AND CURLL'S "CORINNA."

Mr. Carruthers, in his Life of Pope (p. 30.), speaking of Henry Cromwell, the friend of the poet in his wild days, says:

"He [Cromwell] had done more than take a pinch of snuff out of Dryden's snuff-box, which was a point of high honour and ambition at Will's: he had quarrelled with him about a frail poetess, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, whom Dryden had christened Corinna, and who was also known as Sappho."

Most of the readers of "N. & Q." will know that the lady referred to was the person who transferred Pope's early letters to Curll for publication, and duly suffered in The Dunciad: but can any of them tell me the foundation of the story above quoted? I suspect it has no other than some lines in a poetical epistle attributed to Pope, and published in one of Curll's "surreptitious' volumes; from which epistle Mr. Carruthers subsequently quotes some verses. The lines alluded to are as follows:

"What mov'd you, pray, without compelling,
Like Trojan true, to draw for Helen-
Quarrel with Dryden for a strumpet?
(For so she was, as e'er showed r-p yet;
Tho' I confess she had much grace,
Especially about the face.)

from my soul I judge

He [Dryden] ne'er (good man) owed Helen grudge, But lov'd her full as well, it may be, As e'er he did his own good lady." Because Dryden, in a letter, christened Mrs. Thomas "Corinna," and "would have called her Sappho, but that he heard she was handsomer," Mr. Carruthers seems to have assumed that she was Dryden's mistress: and because he believed her to have been afterwards the mistress of Cromwell, he appears to have come to the conclusion that the lady who "had much grace, especially about the face," was no other than the famous Mrs. Thomas, the conveyer of the Pope letters to Curll. If the reputation of his friend was well-merited, Pope might have drawn upon a list as long as Leporello's; but the poem evidently refers to some particular lady who jilted the author of Absalom and Achitophel for Mr. Cromwell (who appears to have got the title of "Beau Cromwell," by wearing red breeches, a tie wig, or a long black unpowdered periwig, no hat, and "not so much as the extremities of clean linen in neckcloth or cuffs"); and as the story was probably derived from himself, I have no doubt that it was highly creditable to that gentleman's gallantry and power of fasci- | nation. But the lines not only do not mention any such names as Elizabeth Thomas, Corinna, or

Sappho, but it is clear from the play upon the name of the Trojan lady, that they refer to some modern frailty whose name was Helen. If it were not so, the second line, quoted above, would be pointless, and the subsequent repetition of the name would have no meaning. Dryden does not appear to have had any personal acquaintance with Corinna, nor does Corinna, though ready enough with a fiction at most times, and always anxious to make the most of her acquaintance with " "glorious John," pretend that she had ever spoken to him. The history of their acquaintance is simply this :Mrs. Thomas, then a stranger to Dryden, took it in her head to forward to him a copy of verses, which, with a letter, she left for him at a certain coffee-house which he frequented. Dryden read them; or, at all events, praised them. They had come to him anonymously; but he says, in his reply, "I continued not a day in the ignorance of the person to whom I was obliged: for, if you remember, you brought the verses to a bookseller's shop, and inquired there how they might be sent to me. There happened to be, in the same shop, a gentleman, who, hearing you speak of me, and seeing a paper in your hand, imagined it was a libel against me, and had you watched by his servant, till he knew both your name and where you lived, of which he sent me word immediately. I have lost his letter; I remember you live somewhere about St. Giles's, and are an only daughter." Mrs. Thomas lived then with her mother in Dyott Street, Bloomsbury. Though Dryden wrote to her two other letters, the last of which is dated December 29, 1699, the first two have no dates, but they all refer to the poems which Corinna sent him at the coffee-house, and which he only returns in the last letter; so that, although he apologises for having kept them so long, it is probable that the correspondence extended over a very short period. Dryden was then nearly seventy; and it is evident, from these three letters, that he felt himself to be sunk into the vale of years, and well nigh at his journey's end: for he speaks repentantly of his literary levities, and recommends his fair correspondent to "avoid the licences which Mrs. Behn allowed herself, of writing loosely, and giving some scandal to the modesty of her sex;" and adds, "I confess I am the last man who ought in justice to arraign her, who have been myself too much a libertine in most of my poems; which I should be well contented I had time, either to purge, or to see them fairly burned. But this I need not say to you, who are too well born, and too well principled, to fall into that mire." In the third letter he speaks of being always crazy, and at that time worse than usual, by a St. Anthony's fire in one leg. Of this complaint he died on May 1, in the following yearfour months after; so that the closer intimacy with Corinna, the jilting and the quarrel with Crom