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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 15

Note 44 — AN ESSAY UPON SATIRE.

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This seems to have been copied by Gay in his Trivia:

Why do you, boys, the kennel's surface spread, To tempt, with faithless pass, the matron's tread? How can you laugh to see the damsel spurn, Sink in your frauds, and her green stocking mourn?

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