First Line: NEXT THESE, A TROOP OF BUSY SPIRITS PRESS Last Line: AND FOR MY FOES MAY THIS THEIR BLESSING BE, %TO TALK LIKE DOEG AND TO WRITE LIKE THEE Subject(s): GREAT BRITAIN - POPISH PLOT (1678-80); PORDAGE, SAMUEL (1633-1691); SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648-1724); SHADWELL, THOMAS (1642-1692);
Poem Sources:
COLLECTION OF ENGLISH POEMS, 1660-1800. CRANE, RONALD S. (ED.) (1932)
THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. W. D. CHRISTIE (ED.) DRYDEN, JOHN (1897)
