Obscure! why prythee what am I? I know
My father, grandsire, and great grandsire too:
If farther I derive my pedigree,
I can but guess beyond the fourth degree.
The rest of my forgotten ancestors
Were sons of earth.

— John Dryden Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)

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