The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 103 PROLOGUE TO THE PILGRIM.

BY BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

REVIVED FOR OUR AUTHOR'S BENEFIT, ANNO 1700.

How wretched is the fate of those who write!

Brought muzzled to the stage, for fear they bite.

Where, like Tom Dove, they stand the common foe;

Lugg'd by the critic, baited by the beau.

Yet worse, their brother poets damn the play,

And roar the loudest, thou

            
            

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