Excerpt from The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6: Illustrated With Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author It ne'er looked up, since we were dipt in show When sense in doggrel rhymes and clouds was lost, And dulness flourished at the actor's cost. Nor stopt it here when tragedy was done, Satire and humour the same fate have run, And comedy is sunk to trick and pun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.