D'Urfey

From Pills to Purge Melancholy, v. 4, D'Urfey note: tune used in Beggar's Opera for Polly is a Sad Slut

Cuckolds All a-Row 1996

But neither D'Urfey nor Langbaine could secure for _Bussy D'Ambois_ a renewal of its earlier popularity.

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

D'Urfey died in 1723, aged 70, leaving Steele a watch and chain, which his friend wore at the funeral.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Young coupled his prose with the poetry of the wretched D'Urfey.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Motteux while he was translating Rabelais, included among its contributors Aphra Behn, Oldmixon, Dennis, D'Urfey and others.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

D'Urfey, "for a long time after" the play "lay buried in [his] grave."

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

D'Urfey_, I am told, is an Admirer, and Mr. _John Dunton_ has been heard to say, more than once, he had rather be the Author of it than all his Works.

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Gregory Griffin

If Chapman's plot needed to be "writ new" at all, D'Urfey deserves credit for having done his work with considerable skill and taste, though he hints in his dedication that there were detractors who did not view his version as favourably as Lord Carlisle.

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

D'Urfey rejects, too, the supernatural machinery in Act IV, and the details of the torture of the erring Countess, whom, at the close of the play, he represents not as wandering from her husband's home, but as stabbing herself in despair.

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

In the same year as D'Urfey revised the play, Langbaine published his

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman