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Thus some by temperance taught approaching slow

DMI number:
5621
First Line:
Thus some by temperance taught approaching slow
Last Line:
And steal themselves from life and melt away
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
Themes:
Age and Death
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Act 5 Scene 1 of Dryden's The State of Innocence; Calif. XII (1995): 144-5 [‘Some few, by temp’rance’]
Content/Publication
Title:
Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
Page No(s):
p.389
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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