The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 74 PROLOGUE TO LIMBERHAM.

True wit has seen its best days long ago;

It ne'er look'd up, since we were dipp'd in show:

When sense in doggerel rhymes and clouds was lost,

And dulness flourish'd at the actors' cost.

Nor stopp'd it here; when tragedy was done,

Satire and humour the same fate have run,

And comedy is sunk to trick and pun.

Now our machining l

            
            

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