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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 11

Note 191 — BOOK III.

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Dryden has given Jack Straw the national antipathies of the mob in his own time. Chaucer says more correctly, their rage was directed against the Flemings. In the next two lines, Dryden again alludes to the riots of his own time, whose gathering cry used to be "one and all."

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