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... the scabbard 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 ; 60 65 But neither side a winner , For things are as OF DRYDEN . 23 3333.
... the scabbard 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 ; 60 65 But neither side a winner , For things are as OF DRYDEN . 23 3333.
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John Dryden. 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 at last : Nature is my kindly care ; Mars ...
John Dryden. 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 at last : Nature is my kindly care ; Mars ...
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... things : But Shakespeare's power is sacred as a king's . Those legends from old priesthood were received , And he then writ , as people then believed . But if for Shakespeare we your grace implore , We for our theatre shall want it more ...
... things : But Shakespeare's power is sacred as a king's . Those legends from old priesthood were received , And he then writ , as people then believed . But if for Shakespeare we your grace implore , We for our theatre shall want it more ...
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... things to say , That he's more wit than any man i̇ ' th ' play : But of so ill a mingle with the rest , As when a parrot's taught to break a jest . Thus , aiming to be fine , they make a show , As tawdry squires in country churches do ...
... things to say , That he's more wit than any man i̇ ' th ' play : But of so ill a mingle with the rest , As when a parrot's taught to break a jest . Thus , aiming to be fine , they make a show , As tawdry squires in country churches do ...
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John Dryden. 35 40 Things well consider'd , ' tis so hard to make A comedy , which should the knowing take , That our dull poet , in despair to please , Does humbly beg , by me , his writ of ease . " Tis a land - tax , which he's too ...
John Dryden. 35 40 Things well consider'd , ' tis so hard to make A comedy , which should the knowing take , That our dull poet , in despair to please , Does humbly beg , by me , his writ of ease . " Tis a land - tax , which he's too ...
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