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Jonson has made far more use than of Sallust, and many other original sources of information, to spoil the play.—But this gentleman, who, like most of the poet's censurers, never looked into the piece which he was reviling, well aware that Sallust had written on the subject of Catiline's conspiracy, took it for granted that Jonson had merely turned him into doggrel, and hazarded his assertion, fearless of question, and confident of finding a ready belief in the prejudices of the times.
