Yet then this little spot of earth well till’d,
A num’rous family with plenty fill’d,
The good old man and thrifty housewife spent
Their days in peace and fatten’d with content;
Enjoy’d the dregs of life, and lived to see
A long descending healthful progeny.

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

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