, lines 701, 702:
"Bidding in one grand pile this Town expire,
Her towers in dust, her Thames a Lake of fire."
Nathaniel Lee (circ. 1653-1692), the dramatist, wrote
The Rival Queens
(1677), in which occurs the line:
"When Greek join'd Greek then was the tug of war."
He collaborated with Dryden in
Œdipus