...verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed: I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads...blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. Sir Charles Sedley TO CELIA NOT, Celia, that I juster am, Or better than the rest! For I would change...

...and for writing dull. . . I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes. For who would read thy life who reads thy rhymes ? But of King David's foes be this...blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee! " Of the multitudinous rejoinders and counterblasts provoked by tins thunder, Dryden, it ¡s supposed,...

...verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's annointed: I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads...blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. Doeg is Elkanah Settle, another bad poet and playwright who feuded with Dryden. There is a rollicking...

...verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's Anointed. I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads...blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee. 43 To My Dear Friend Mr Congreve, on his Comedy called 'The Double-Dealer' JOHN DRYDEN Printed 1694...

...For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes? But of King David's foes, be this the doom,0 50 May all be like the young man Absalom; And for my...blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee. The Medal A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION per Graium populos, mediaeque per Eltdis urbem ibat ovans, dsvumque...