The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 89 EPILOGUE, No.89

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No poor Dutch peasant, wing'd with all his fear,

Flies with more haste, when the French arms draw near,

Than we with our poetic train come down,

For refuge hither, from the infected town:

Heaven, for our sins, this summer has thought fit

To visit us with all the plagues of wit.

A French troop first swept all

            
            

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