The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 97 PROLOGUE TO THE PROPHETESS. [65]

BY BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

SPOKEN BY MR BETTERTON. 1690.

What Nostradame, with all his art, can guess

The fate of our approaching Prophetess?

A play which, like a pérspective set right,

Presents our vast expenses close to sight;

But turn the tube, and there we sadly view

Our distant gains; and those uncertain too:

A sweeping

            
            

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