The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 63 PROLOGUE.

SPOKEN THE FIRST DAY OF THE KING'S HOUSE ACTING AFTER THE FIRE OF LONDON.

So shipwreck'd passengers escape to land,

So look they, when on the bare beach they stand,

Dropping and cold, and their first fear scarce o'er,

Expecting famine on a desert shore.

From that hard climate we must wait for bread,

Whence even the natives, forced

            
            

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