The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 100 PROLOGUE TO ALBUMAZAR. [67]

To say, this comedy pleased long ago,

Is not enough to make it pass you now.

Yet, gentlemen, your ancestors had wit;

When few men censured, and when fewer writ.

And Jonson, of those few the best, chose this

As the best model of his masterpiece.

Subtle was got by our Albumazar,

That Alchymist by this Astrologer;

Here he was f

            
            

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