Excerpt from The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., Vol. 2 of 4: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Carefully Collated and Compared With Former Editions, Together With Notes From the Various Critics and Commentators And has not Colly {till his lord, and whore? His butchers Henly, his free-mafons Moor? Does not one table Bavius ftill admit P Still to one bitp Philips' feem a wit P 100 Still Sappho - A. Hold; for God-fakemyou'll offend, No names - be calm - learn prudence ofa friend I too could write, and I am twice as tall But foes like thefe - P. One flatt'rer's worfe than all. Of all mad creatures, ifthe learn'd are right, It is the flaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent Alas l 'tis ten times worfe when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic profe, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes One from all Grub-fireet will my fame defend, And more abufive, calls himfelf my friend. This prints my Letters, that expefis a bribe, And others roar aloud, Subfcribe, fubfcribe There are, who to my perfon pay their court I cough like Horace, and, tho' lean, am i'bort. Ammon's great fon one fhoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nofe, and, Sir you have an eye Go on, obliging creatures; make me fee All that difgrac'd my betters, ' met in me. Say for my comfort, languifhing in bed Juft fo immortal Maro held his head And when I die, be fure you let me know Great Homer dy'd'three thoufand years ago. Why did I write? What fin to me unknown Dipt me 1n 111k, my parents', or my own P As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd. The Mufe but ferv'd to cafe fome friend, not wife, To help me thro' this long difeafe, my life, To fecond, arbuthnot thy art and care, And teach, the being you preferv'd, to bear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.