The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 59 PROLOGUE TO SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL.

Fools, which each man meets in his dish each day,

Are yet the great regalios of a play;

In which to poets you but just appear,

To prize that highest, which cost them so dear:

Fops in the town more easily will pass;

One story makes a statutable ass:

But such in plays must be much thicker sown,

Like yolks of eggs, a dozen beat to

            
            

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