According to The Columbia Granger's Poetry Index, ninth edition, those lines by John Dryden are from the poem,

To My Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden of Chesterton in

the County of Huntingdon, Esquire.

The full poem can be found in "The Poems of John

Dryden", Edited by James Kingsley, Volume 4, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1958.

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Denis Robitaille

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