The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 77 EPILOGUE TO OEDIPUS.

What Sophocles could undertake alone,

Our poets found a work for more than one;

And therefore two lay tugging at the piece,

With all their force, to draw the ponderous mass from Greece;

A weight that bent e'en Seneca's strong Muse,

And which Corneille's shoulders did refuse:

So hard it is the Athenian harp to string!

So much tw

            
            

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