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

Note 369 — PROLOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, or the PERSIAN PRINCE.

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Probably alluding to the pope-burning, meditated by the Whigs during the administration of Harley. Swift, in his journal to Stella, mentions the figures intended for the procession having been seized by government.

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