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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10

Note 441 — MAC-FLECKNOE.

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This elegant phrase is the current catch-word of Sir Samuel Hearty in the "Virtuoso," described in the dramatis personæ as "a brisk, amorous, adventurous, unfortunate coxcomb; one that, by the help of humorous, nonsensical bye-words, takes himself to be a great wit."

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