Or hast thou known the world so long in vain? ✨ Juvenal, John Dryden, …

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Or hast thou known the world so long in vain? ✨ Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, p.210
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