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

Note 70 — CANTO III.

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These lines in the original, are translated with uncommon spirit and accuracy in his Life of Lopez de Vega:

The Spanish bard, who no nice censure fears, In one short day includes a lapse of years; In those rude acts the hero lives so fast, Child in the first, he's grey-beard in the last.

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