The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 84 PROLOGUE TO THE EARL OF ESSEX; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE;

BY MR J. BANKS, 1682.

SPOKEN TO THE KING AND QUEEN AT THEIR COMING TO THE HOUSE.

When first the ark was landed on the shore,

And Heaven had vow'd to curse the ground no more;

When tops of hills the longing patriarch saw,

And the new scene of earth began to draw;

The dove was sent to view the waves' decrease,

And first brought b

            
            

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