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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

John Dryden
Victory, Would Be, Poet
'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Ben Jonson
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.