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NYWJ.742.038
12 Jul 1742:31 (450)
From Mr. Dryden's verses which are in the frontispiece of
Milton's Paradise Lost, (to wit.)
Three poets in three distant places born,
Greece, Italy and England did adorn,
The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,
The next in majesty, in both the last,
The force of nature cou'd no further go,
To make a third she join'd the former two.
A certain person took the hint and penned the following
lines (to wit.)
Three preachers in three distant places born,
Georgia, New-Brunswyk, Southold did adorn,
The first to strike the passions did excell,
The next was fam'd for sending souls to hell,
The last had nothing of his own to show,
And therefore wisely join'd the former two.
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