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IX: 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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IX

EPIGRAM

  • Behold! ambitious of the British bays,
  • Cibber and Duck contend in rival lays,
  • But, gentle Colley, should thy verse prevail,
  • Thou hast no fence, alas! against his flail:
  • Therefore thy claim resign, allow his right:
  • For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write.

EPITAPHS

His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani Munere!

Virg. [Æn. vii. 885.]