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Prologue To Sir Martin Marr-All.

By John Dryden

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Fools, which each man meets in his dish each day,         Are yet the great regalios of a play;         In which to poets you but just appear,         To prize that highest, which cost them so dear:         Fops in the town more easily will pass;         One story makes a statutable ass:         But such in plays must be much thicker sown,         Like yolks of eggs, a dozen beat to one.         Observing poets all their walks invade,         As men watch woodcocks gliding through a glade:         And when they have enough for comedy,         They stow their several bodies in a pie:         The poet's but the cook to fashion it,         For, gallants, you yourselves have found the wit.         To bid you welcome, would your bounty wrong;         None welcome those who bring their cheer along.

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About John Dryden

John Dryden (1631–1700) was an English poet, critic, and playwright who served as the first Poet Laureate. His works—including "Absalom and Achitophel," "Mac Flecknoe," and "Alexander's Feast"—established the heroic couplet as the dominant verse form of the Restoration.

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