A true coppy of the Epilogue to Constantine the Great that which was first published being false printed and surreptitious / written by Mr. Dryden. Epilogue to Constantine the Great Dryden, John, 1631-1700. 1684 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A36707 Wing D2392 ESTC R1683 12265205 ocm 12265205 58021 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A36707) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58021) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 181:25) A true coppy of the Epilogue to Constantine the Great that which was first published being false printed and surreptitious / written by Mr. Dryden. Epilogue to Constantine the Great Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692. Constantine the Great. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for J. Tonson ..., London : 1684. In verse. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Constantine -- I, -- Emperor of Rome, d. 337 -- Poetry. Prologues and epilogues. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century 2002-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 John Latta Sampled and proofread 2002-10 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A TRUE COPPY OF THE EPILOGUE TO CONSTANTINE the GREAT . That which was first Published being false printed and surreptitious . Written by Mr. Dryden . OUr Hero's happy in the Plays Conclusion , The holy Rogue at last has met Confusion : Tho' Arius all along appear'd a Saint , The last Act shew'd him a true Protestant . Eusebius , ( for you know I read Greek Authors , ) Reports , that after all these Plots and Slaughters , The Court of Constantine was full of Glory , And every Trimmer turn'd Addressing Tory ; They follow'd him in Heards as they were mad : When Clause was King , then all the World was glad . Whigs kept the Places they possest before , And most were in a Way of getting more ; Which was much as saying , Gentlemen , Here 's Power and Money to be Rogues again . Indeed there were a sort of peaking Tools , Some call them Modest , but I call e'm Fools , Men much more Loyal , tho' not half so loud ; But these poor Devils were cast behind the Croud . For bold Knaves thrive without one grain of Sence , But good men starve for want of Impudence . Besides all these , there were a sort of Wights , ( I think my Author calls them Teckelites ; ) Such hearty Rogues , against the King and Laws , They favour'd even a Foreign Rebel's Cause . When their own damn'd Design was quash'd and aw'd , At least they gave it their good Word abroad . As many a Man , who , for a quiet Life , Breeds out his Bastard , not to nose his Wife ; Thus o're their Darling Plot , these Trimmers cry ; And tho' they cannot keep it in their Eye , They bind it Prentice to Count Teckely . They believe not the last Plot , may I be curst , If I believe they e're believ'd the first ; No wonder their own Plot , no Plot they think ; The Man that makes it , never smells the Stink . And , now it comes into my Head , I 'le tell Why these damn'd Trimmers lov'd the Turks so well . The Original Trimmer , tho' a Friend to no man , Yet in his heart ador'd a pretty Woman : He knew that Mahomet laid up for ever , Kind black-eyed Rogues , for every true Believer : And , which was more than mortal Man e're tasted , One Pleasure that for threescore Twelve-months lasted : To turn for this , may surely be forgiven : who 'd not be circumcis'd for such a Heav'n ! London , Printed for I. Tonson , at the Judge's Head in Chancery-lane , 1684.