The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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Page 22
... thy pack , And lighten thy back , 10 00 15 The world was a fool , e'er since it begun , And since neither Janus , nor Chronos , nor I Can hinder the crimes , Or mend the bad times 22 ' THE SECULAR MASQUE . The Secular Masque.
... thy pack , And lighten thy back , 10 00 15 The world was a fool , e'er since it begun , And since neither Janus , nor Chronos , nor I Can hinder the crimes , Or mend the bad times 22 ' THE SECULAR MASQUE . The Secular Masque.
Page 25
... fools are only thinner , With all our cost and care ; But neither side a winner , For things are as they were . CHORUS OF ALL . The fools are only , & c . Enter VENUS . VENUS . Calms appear when storms are past ; Love will have his hour ...
... fools are only thinner , With all our cost and care ; But neither side a winner , For things are as they were . CHORUS OF ALL . The fools are only , & c . Enter VENUS . VENUS . Calms appear when storms are past ; Love will have his hour ...
Page 47
... FOOLS , which each man meets in his dish each day , Are yet the great regalios of a play ; In which to poets you but just appear , To prize that highest , which cost them so dear : Fops in the town more easily will pass ; One PROLOGUES ...
... FOOLS , which each man meets in his dish each day , Are yet the great regalios of a play ; In which to poets you but just appear , To prize that highest , which cost them so dear : Fops in the town more easily will pass ; One PROLOGUES ...
Page 51
... fools grow wary now ; and , when they see A poet eyeing round the company , 20 Straight each man for himself begins to doubt ; They shrink like seamen when a press comes out . Few ... fool , to serve the stage . PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 51.
... fools grow wary now ; and , when they see A poet eyeing round the company , 20 Straight each man for himself begins to doubt ; They shrink like seamen when a press comes out . Few ... fool , to serve the stage . PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 51.
Page 52
... fool and farce , Nor scorn a mode , because ' tis taught at home , Which does , like vests , our gravity become , Our poet yields you should this play refuse : As tradesmen , by the change of fashions , lose , With some content , their ...
... fool and farce , Nor scorn a mode , because ' tis taught at home , Which does , like vests , our gravity become , Our poet yields you should this play refuse : As tradesmen , by the change of fashions , lose , With some content , their ...
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