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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 4: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
He did not, however, omit to improve the right which his office had given him to the notice of the royal family. On the arrival of the princefs of Wales, he wrote a poem, and Obtained fo much favour, that both the Prince and Princefs went to fee his What d'ye call it, a kind of mock-tragedy, in which the images Were comic, and the action grave; fo that, as Pope relates, Mr. Cromwell, who could not hear what was faid, was at a lofs how to re concile the laughter of the audience with the folemnity of the fcene.
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