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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 17

Note 11 — SPECIMEN OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE.

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“Our attention, therefore, was to make the play a parallel betwixt the Holy League plotted by the house of Guise and its adherents, with the Covenant plotted by the rebels in the time of Charles I. and those of the New Association, which was the spawn of the Old Covenant.”—Vol. VII. p. 146.

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