It compares the faculties of its central subject to "monarch oaks that shade the plain."
This work's genesis lies in its author's reading of another author's volume on Oliver Cromwell and the play Love's Dominion. It describes how a "tragic muse gives smiles," and its central subject has a "felonious heart though venom lies." At its end, Bruce and Lonvil prepare a trap for the title figure, wherein his "drugget robe is left behind." It compares the faculties of its central subject to "monarch oaks that shade the plain." In a part addressing fame that spreads from Bunhill to Watling Street, "No Persian carpets spread the imperial way, but scattered limbs of mangled poets lay." Written in a series of heroic couplets, its second line claims "when fate summons, monarchs must decay," and it begins "All human things are subject to decay. For 10 points, identify this John Dryden poem that attacks Thomas Shadwell and the title author.
This work's genesis lies in its author's reading of another author's volume on Oliver Cromwell and the play Love's Dominion.
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