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II: EPIGRAM - 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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EPIGRAM

  • Should D[enni]s print, how once you robb’d your brother,
  • Traduced your monarch, and debauch’d your mother;
  • Say, what revenge on D[enni]s can be had;
  • Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad?
  • Of one so poor you cannot take the law;
  • On one so old your sword you scorn to draw.
  • Uncaged then let the harmless monster rage,
  • Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.