Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TEMPEST: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN


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First Line: Gallants, by all good signs it does appear
Last Line: And you'll be troubled with 'em all agen.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Ghosts; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Actresses


Gallants, by all good Signs it does appear
That Sixty Seven's a very damning Year,
For Knaves aboard, and for ill Poets here.

Among the Muses there's a gen'ral Rot;
The Rhyming Monsieur and the Spanish Plot,
Defie or court, all's one, they go to Pot.

The Ghosts of Poets walk within this place,
And haunt us Actors wheresoe're we pass,
In Visions bloodier than King Richard's was.

For this poor Wretch, he has not much to say,
But quietly brings in his Part o' th' Play,
And begs the Favour to be damn'd to-day.

He sends me only like a Sh'riffs man here
To let you know the Malefactor's neer,
And that he means to dye en cavalier.

For, if you shou'd be gracious to his Pen,
Th' Example will prove ill to other Men,
And you'll be troubled with 'em all agen.





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