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"I remember," said Dryden, writing to Dennis, "I remember poor Nat Lee, who was then upon the verge of madness, yet made a sober and witty answer to a bad poet who told him, 'It was an easy thing to write like a madman. 'No,' said he, ''tis a very difficult thing to write like a madman, but 'tis a very easy thing to write like a fool.'. Nevertheless, the difficult song of distraction is to be heard, a light high note, in
English poetry throughout two centuries at least, and one English poet lately set that untethered lyric, the mad maid's song, flying again.