The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 72 EPILOGUE TO THE MAN OF MODE; OR, SIR FOPLING FLUTTER;

BY SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, 1676.

Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown,

They seem not of Heaven's making, but their own.

Those nauseous harlequins in farce may pass;

But there goes more to a substantial ass:

Something of man must be exposed to view,

That, gallants, they may more resemble you.

Sir Fopling is a fool so ni

            
            

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