text:  But does this most general attribution of a characteristic--shared with Fletcher--and such as the loosest observation of the plays forces upon the most uncritical reader--does the accident that Dryden left this inevitable word "VARIETY" written make the critical observation of Pope no more than a "diffusing" and "paraphrasing" of Dryden's "Epitome?" Has he only "changed Dryden's gold for baser metal of lower value though of greater bulk?" It would at least be as near the truth to say that he has made Dryden's bill good money by accepting it