Dryden's Fables

Dryden's Fables Synopsis

Excerpt from Dryden's Fables: Tales in Verse Retold From Chaucer and Boccaccio

His age then was sixty-six. His health was fail ing. His-son. Charles was disabled by an accident at Rome money'was needed to bring the son home and secure proper' care for him. If it please God I must die of overstudy, Dryden said, I cannot spend my life-better than in preserving his.

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