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Quotes from Mac Flecknoe — John Dryden

1631–1700 England

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All human things are subject to decay,
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Mac Flecknoe (1682)

Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command
Some peaceful province in acrostic land.
There thou mayst wings display and altars raise,
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

Mac Flecknoe (1682)

The rest to some faint meaning make pretense,
But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Some beams of wit on other souls may fall,
Strike through and make a lucid interval;
But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray,
His rising fogs prevail upon the day.

Mac Flecknoe (1682)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Dryden (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.