Epilogue To "albion And Albanius." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHHIIJJKKLM IINNOOPPQRSSTT| After our sop's fable shown to day | A |
| I come to give the moral of the play | A |
| Feign'd Zeal you saw set out the speedier pace | B |
| But the last heat Plain Dealing won the race | B |
| Plain Dealing for a jewel has been known | C |
| But ne'er till now the jewel of a crown | D |
| When Heaven made man to show the work divine | E |
| Truth was His image stamp'd upon the coin | F |
| And when a king is to a god refined | G |
| On all he says and does he stamps his mind | G |
| This proves a soul without alloy and pure | H |
| Kings like their gold should every touch endure | H |
| To dare in fields is valour but how few | I |
| Dare be so thoroughly valiant to be true | I |
| The name of great let other kings affect | J |
| He's great indeed the prince that is direct | J |
| His subjects know him now and trust him more | K |
| Than all their kings and all their laws before | K |
| What safety could their public acts afford | L |
| Those he can break but cannot break his word | M |
| So great a trust to him alone was due | I |
| Well have they trusted whom so well they knew | I |
| The saint who walk'd on waves securely trod | N |
| While he believed the beckoning of his God | N |
| But when his faith no longer bore him out | O |
| Began to sink as he began to doubt | O |
| Let us our native character maintain | P |
| 'Tis of our growth to be sincerely plain | P |
| To excel in truth we loyally may strive | Q |
| Set privilege against prerogative | R |
| He plights his faith and we believe him just | S |
| His honour is to promise ours to trust | S |
| Thus Britain's basis on a word is laid | T |
| As by a word the world itself was made | T |
John Dryden
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