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LIFE OF EDMOND MALONE.
him previous information upon the supposed connection between Shakspeare and D'Avenant, thus breaks out in a stanza against Malone’s unhappy assailant.
TO EDMOND MALONE, Esq.,
on the attacks of a virulent scribbler.
Proceed, Malone, thy Shakspeare’s page to clear,
Nor heed what Ritson’s cankered spleen can say;
So may the Sun of our poetic sphere
Shoot through the mists of time its faintest ray.
Nor heed what Ritson’s cankered spleen can say;
So may the Sun of our poetic sphere
Shoot through the mists of time its faintest ray.
