III, lines 75-78, John Dryden, trans.
Satires, Satire III
“I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.”
Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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