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Dryden's translation of Virgil, executed between 1693 and 1696, was published by Tonson in July 1697 by subscription.
Serious financial differences arose between the poet and his publisher, and Dryden's letters to Tonson ( 1695 – 7 ) are full of complaints of meanness and sharp practice and of refusals to accept clipped or bad money.
Tonson would pay nothing for notes ; Dryden retorted, " The notes and prefaces shall be short, because you shall get the more by saving paper.
" He added that all the trade were sharpers, Tonson not more than others.
Dryden described Tonson thus, in lines written under his portrait, and afterwards printed in Faction Displayed ( 1705 ):
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