The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 104 EPILOGUE TO THE PILGRIM.

Perhaps the parson[70] stretch'd a point too far,

When with our Theatres he waged a war.

He tells you, that this very moral age

Received the first infection from the stage.

But sure, a banish'd court, with lewdness fraught,

The seeds of open vice, returning, brought.

Thus lodged (as vice by great example thrives)

It first debau

                         

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