The epilogue writ by Mr. Dreyden ; spoke before His Majesty at Oxford, March 19, 1680. Dryden, John, 1631-1700. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A36621 of text R37775 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D2272). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A36621 Wing D2272 ESTC R37775 17015488 ocm 17015488 105792 2240876589

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A36621) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 105792) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1614:24) The epilogue writ by Mr. Dreyden ; spoke before His Majesty at Oxford, March 19, 1680. Dryden, John, 1631-1700. 1 broadside. Printed for Rich. Royston, London : [1687] In verse. Date of publication suggested by Wing. "Prepared for a special performance of Charles Saunders' Tamerlane the Great"--NUC pre-1956 imprints. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng eebo The epilogue. Writ by Mr. Dreyden, spoke before His Majesty at Oxford, March 19. 1680. Dryden, John, 1681 1 302 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2002-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Epilogue . Writ by Mr. Dreyden , Spoke before His MAJESTY at Oxford , March 19. 1680. AS from a darkned Room some Optick Glass Transmits the distant Species as they pass , The Worlds large Landskip is from far descry'd , And men contracted on the Paper glide : Thus crowded OXFORD represents Mankind , And in these Walls Great Britain seems confin'd ; OXFORD is now the Publick Theatre , And you both Audience are and Actors here : The gazing World on the New Scene attend , Admire the Turnes , and wish a prosperous end . This place the Seat of Peace ; the quiet Cell , Where Arts remov'd from noisy bus'ness dwell , Should calm your Wills , Unite the Jarring parts , And with a kind Contagion seize your hearts . Oh! may its Genius like soft Musick move , And Tune you all to Concord and to Love : Our Ark that hath in Tempest long been tost , Could never Land on so secure a Coast. From hence you may look back on Civil rage , And view the Ruins of the former Age : Here a New World its Glories may unfold , And here be Sav'd the Remnants of the Old . But while your Day-sun publick thoughts are bent Past ills to heal , and Future to prevent , Some vacant hours allow to your delight ; Mirth is the pleasing bus'ness of the night , The King's Prerogative , The Peoples Right : Were all your hours to Sullen Cares confin'd , The body would be Jaded by the mind . 'T is Wisdom's part betwixt Extremes to steer , Be Gods in Senates , but be Mortals here .

LONDON , Printed for Rich. Royston .

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