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IV: EPIGRAM ON MR. M[OO]RE’S GOING TO LAW WITH MR. GILIVER: INSCRIBED TO ATTORNEY TIBBALD - 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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IV

EPIGRAM

ON MR. M[OO]RE’S GOING TO LAW WITH MR. GILIVER: INSCRIBED TO ATTORNEY TIBBALD

  • Once in his life M[oo]re judges right:
  • His sword and pen not worth a straw,
  • An author that could never write,
  • A gentleman that dares not fight,
  • Has but one way to tease—by law.
  • This suit, dear Tibbald, kindly hatch;
  • Thus thou may’st help the sneaking elf;
  • And sure a printer is his match,
  • Who ’s but a publisher himself.