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acrostic quotes

  • Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram: Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostic Land. There thou mayest wings displayand altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

    -John Dryden
      MacFlecknoe (published1682), l.203^8.

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