The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 78 PROLOGUE TO TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

SPOKEN BY MR BETTERTON, REPRESENTING THE GHOST OF SHAKSPEARE.

See, my loved Britons, see your Shakspeare rise,

An awful ghost, confess'd, to human eyes!

Unnamed, methinks, distinguish'd I had been

From other shades, by this eternal green,

About whose wreaths the vulgar poets strive,

And with a touch their wither'd bays revive.

            
            

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