“Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.”

— John Dryden, book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Line 82.

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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