The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

Note 53 — PREFACE ON TRANSLATION, PREFIXED TO DRYDEN's SECOND MISCELLANY, PUBLISHED IN 1685.

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I wish our author had attended to his noble friend Roscommon's recommendation:

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense; What moderate fop would range the Park, or stews, Who among troops of faultless nymphs might chuse?

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