The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 65 PROLOGUE TO AMBOYNA.[46]

As needy gallants in the scrivener's hands,

Court the rich knave that gripes their mortgaged lands,

The first fat buck of all the season's sent,

And keeper takes no fee in compliment:

The dotage of some Englishmen is such,

To fawn on those who ruin them-the Dutch.

They shall have all, rather than make a war

With those who of th

            
            

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