“Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,
Seat of pleasures, and of loves;
Venus here will choose her dwelling,
And forsake her Cyprian groves.”

— John Dryden

King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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