The Poetical Entertainer Or, Tales, Satyrs, Dialogues, And Intrigues, &c. Serious and Comical. All digested into such Verse as most agreeable to the several Subjects. To be publish'd as often as occasion shall offer [by Edward Ward] |
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The following Epitaph, tho' old, was never before Printed.
Epitaphium Jo. Drydeni, Q. P. L. Thus render'd into English.
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Cast a moist Eye on Dryden's sacred Urn;
Bestow a Tear, Apollo bids you weep!
The British Virgil does in silence sleep.
Vict'ry herself forlorn, with drooping Wings,
Protects his Shrine, her Poet's Praises sings,
Whose bold Salonick and Pantherean Verse
Embalm his Fame and consecrate his Hearse.
Batavian Wreaths he scorn'd should girt his Brow:
Look down! there Palms and lasting Laurels grow.
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