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John Dryden, All for Love (1677), Prologue
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What flocks of critics hover here to-day, As vultures wait on armies for their prey, All gaping for the carcass of a play!

— John Dryden on Vultures

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John Dryden

About John Dryden

John Dryden (19 August O.S. 9 August 1631 – 12 May O.S. 1 May 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.