The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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... keep , And let mankind agree ; Better the world were fast asleep , Than kept awake by thee . The 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 ...
... keep , And let mankind agree ; Better the world were fast asleep , Than kept awake by thee . The 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 ...
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... of wealth supply ; It keeps the peasant from the cold , And takes for kings the Tyrian dye . VI . FAIREST isle , all isles excelling , Seat of pleasures and of loves ; 10 Venus here will choose her dwelling , And forsake her 40 SONGS .
... of wealth supply ; It keeps the peasant from the cold , And takes for kings the Tyrian dye . VI . FAIREST isle , all isles excelling , Seat of pleasures and of loves ; 10 Venus here will choose her dwelling , And forsake her 40 SONGS .
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... keep friendship , they shall pickle you . 10 Some are resolv'd not to find out the cheat , But , cuckold like , love him who does the feat : What injuries soe'er upon us fall , Yet , still the same religion answers all : Religion ...
... keep friendship , they shall pickle you . 10 Some are resolv'd not to find out the cheat , But , cuckold like , love him who does the feat : What injuries soe'er upon us fall , Yet , still the same religion answers all : Religion ...
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... ' re now grown vassals to them in your wit . Mark , when they play , how our fine fops advance , The mighty merits of their men of France , 40 45 Keep time , cry Bon , and humour the cadence PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 59.
... ' re now grown vassals to them in your wit . Mark , when they play , how our fine fops advance , The mighty merits of their men of France , 40 45 Keep time , cry Bon , and humour the cadence PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 59.
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John Dryden. Keep time , cry Bon , and humour the cadence . Well , please yourselves ; but sure ' tis understood , That French machines have ne'er done England good . I would not prophesy our house's fate : But while vain shows and ...
John Dryden. Keep time , cry Bon , and humour the cadence . Well , please yourselves ; but sure ' tis understood , That French machines have ne'er done England good . I would not prophesy our house's fate : But while vain shows and ...
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