Dryden, on O. Cromwell.
“Illustrious virtues, who by turns have rose.”
Prior.
⸺“Had not arose.” Swift, Tale of a Tub, Sect. x. and Battle of Books: and Bolingbroke, Letter to Wyndham, p. 233.⸺“This nimble operator will have stole it.” Tale of a Tub, Sect. x. “Some philosophers have mistook.” Ibid. Sect. ix.
⸺“Silence
Was took ere she was ware.”
Milton, Comus.
“Into these common places look,
Which from great authors I have took.”
Prior, Alma.