An Essay on Criticism. Part I • Paragraph 122
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[Line 617: Durfey's Tales.--Thomas D'Urfey, the author (in the reign of Charles II.) of a sequel in five acts of _The Rehearsal_, a series of sonnets entitled _Pills to Purge Melancholy_, the Tales here alluded to, etc. He was a very inferior poet, although Addison pleaded for him.]