John Dryden - If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh th

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

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Dryden, John. "Alexander's Feast." The Poetical Works of John Dryden, edited by W.D. Christie, Macmillan and Co., 1870, p. 370.

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