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ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS. HOWE - Alexander Pope, The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope [1903]

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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Cambridge Edition, ed. Henry W. Boynton (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903).

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ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS. HOWE

Mary Howe was appointed Maid of Honour to Queen Caroline, in 1720. ‘Lepell’ was another Maid of Honour, referred to in The Challenge.

  • What is Prudery?
  • ’T is a beldam,
  • Seen with Wit and Beauty seldom.
  • ’T is a fear that starts at shadows;
  • ’T is (no, ’t is n’t) like Miss Meadows.
  • ’T is a virgin hard of feature,
  • Old, and void of all good-nature;
  • Lean and fretful; would seem wise,
  • Yet plays the fool before she dies.
  • ’T is an ugly envious shrew,
  • That rails at dear Lepell and you.