This spelling of the name of George Wither (1588-1667) occurs in the first edition, and has been repeated in all others. It occurs again on p. 212, 1. 21; and the same spelling is found in Oldham, in his Satire dissuading from Poetry, and in Dryden's Dedication of the Aeneid. Probably Wither's adherence to the Parliamentary side in the time of the Rebellion was sufficient, without any thought of his literary defects, to account for his being joined in a sarcastic reference with Swift's unforgiven enemy, Dryden.