Test: GRE Subject Test: Literature in English

In pious times, e’r Priest-craft did begin,        

Before Polygamy was made a Sin;     

When Man on many multipli’d his kind,       

E’r one to one was cursedly confin’d,

When Nature prompted and no Law deni’d           

Promiscuous Use of Concubine and Bride;   

Then Israel’s Monarch, after Heavens own heart,       

His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart    

To Wives and Slaves: And, wide as his Command,    

Scatter’d his Maker’s Image through the Land.

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Who is the author of this poem?

John Dryden

Sir William Davenant

Thomas Shadwell

John Milton

Edmund Spenser

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