“For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”

— John Dryden, book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, lines 364–365.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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