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TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF OXFORD UPON A PIECE OF NEWS IN MIST [MIST’S JOURNAL] THAT THE REV. MR. W. REFUSED TO WRITE AGAINST MR. POPE BECAUSE HIS BEST PATRON HAD A FRIENDSHIP FOR THE SAID POPE - 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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TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF OXFORD

UPON A PIECE OF NEWS IN MIST [MIST’S JOURNAL] THAT THE REV. MR. W. REFUSED TO WRITE AGAINST MR. POPE BECAUSE HIS BEST PATRON HAD A FRIENDSHIP FOR THE SAID POPE

    • Wesley, if Wesley ’t is they mean,
    • They say on Pope would fall,
    • Would his best Patron let his Pen
    • Discharge his inward gall.
    • What Patron this, a doubt must be,
    • Which none but you can clear,
    • Or father Francis, ’cross the sea,
    • Or else Earl Edward here.
    • That both were good must be confess’d,
    • And much to both he owes;
    • But which to him will be the best
    • The Lord of Oxford knows.

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