Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masqu…

John Dryden
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Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade. ✨ John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). The Poems of John Dryden
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