The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 93 PROLOGUE TO ALBION AND ALBANIUS.

Full twenty years and more, our labouring stage

Has lost on this incorrigible age:

Our poets, the John Ketches of the nation,

Have seem'd to lash ye, even to excoriation:

But still no sign remains; which plainly notes,

You bore like heroes, or you bribed like Oates.

What can we do, when mimicking a fop,

Like beating nut-trees,

            
            

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