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First line: ‘Our Prologues Wit grows flat: the Nap’s worn off’.

Motto: ‘Quo liciat [sic] libris non licet ire mihi, | Turpiter huc illuc ingeniosus eo’ (an adaptation of Ovid, Amores, III. viii. 6, 8). First line: ‘Hear me, dull Prostitute, worse than a Wife’. The attribution to Dryden in the title is satirical.