Note 134 — Chapter XVI
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"I have often wondered," says the gentle-spirited Cowper, "that the same poet who wrote the Dunciad should have written these lines,—
That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me!
Alas! for Pope, if the mercy he showed to others, was the measure of the mercy he received!"—Cowper's Letters, vol. iii. p. 195.