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The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements ... printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton / [Alexander Pope].

Alexander Pope

Date:: 1787-1788

Credit: The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements ... printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton / [Alexander Pope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$And how did, pray, the florid Youth offend, Whofe Speech you took, and gave it to a Friend ? P. Faith, it imports not much from whom it came ; ^ Whoever borrow’d, could not be to blame, C Since the whole Houfe did afterwards the fame. 3 Let Courtly Wits to Wits afford fupply, 17JV As Hog to Flog in huts of Weftphaly; Ff one, thro’ Nature’s Bounty or his Lord’s, Has what the frugal, dirty foil affords. From him the next receives it, thick or thin, 175; As pure a mefs almofl as it came in 'The blefled benefit, not there confin’d. Drops to the third, who nuEzlcs clofe behind ; <’ From tail to mouth, they feed and they caroufe : The lafl: full fairly gives it to the Houje. 180 F. This filthy firaile, this beaflly line Quite turns my flomach— P. So does Flatt’ry mine : And all your courtly Civet-cats can vent. Perfume to you, to me is Excrement. But hear me farther—Japhet, ’tis agreed, 185. Writ not, and Chartres fcarce would write or read,. In all the Courts of Pindus guiltlefs quite; But Pens can forge, my Friend, that cannot write ; And muft no Egg in Japhet’s face be thrown, Becaufe the Deed he forg’d was not my own ? 190^ Muft never Patriot then declaim at Gin, Unlefs, good man ! he has been fairly in ? Ver. 166. And bow did, etc.] This fcenas to allude to a com» plaint made ver. 71. of tho preceding Dialogue. VzR, .185. Japhet—mCbartre{\ See the Epiftle to Lord Batburfi:. VARIATIONS.. Ver. 185. in the MS. I grant it, Sir j and further ’tis agreed, Japhet writ not, and Chartres fcarce could read#$