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LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 1. ON DULLNESS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus dullness, the safe opiate of the mind
Last Line: With dulness first began, in dulness last must end.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


Thus Dulness, the safe Opiate of the Mind,
The last kind Refuge weary Wit can find,
Fit for all Stations, and in each content
Is satisfy'd, secure, and innocent:
No Pains it takes, and no Offence it gives,
Un-fear'd, un-hated, un-disturb'd it lives.
-- And if each writing Author's best pretence,
Be but to teach the Ignorant more Sense;
Then Dulness was the Cause they wrote before,
As 'tis at last the Cause they write no more;
So Wit, which most to scorn it does pretend,
With Dulness first began, in Dulness last must end.





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