The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 82 PROLOGUE[57] TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

1681.

The famed Italian Muse, whose rhymes advance

Orlando and the Paladins of France,

Records, that, when our wit and sense is flown,

'Tis lodged within the circle of the moon,

In earthen jars, which one, who thither soar'd,

Set to his nose, snuff'd up, and was restored.

Whate'er the story be, the moral's true;

The wit we l

            
            

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