Dryden's collection of translations from Boccaccio, Chaucer, and others, known as "The Fables", was published by Tonson in November 1699; a second edition did not appear until 1713. There is an undated letter from Mrs. Aphra Behn to Tonson at Bayfordbury, thanking him warmly for what he had said on her behalf to Dryden. She begged hard for five pounds more than Tonson offered for some of her verses. In connection with Jeremy Collier's attack on the stage, the Middlesex justices presented the playhouses in May 1698, and also William Congreve for writing the "Double Dealer", Thomas d'Urfey for "Don Quixote", and Tonson and Brisco, booksellers, for printing them. Tonson published Congreve's reply to Collier, and at a later date "The Faithful Friend" and "The Confederacy" by his friend, Sir John Vanbrugh.