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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 104 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

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The idea is from Chaucer:

They hadde good fame each deserved Although they were diversely served.

Besides the passage in Chaucer, Pope evidently recalled Creech's translation of Juvenal, Sat. xiii. 132.

ev'ry age relates That equal crimes have met unequal fates; That sins alike, unlike rewards have found, And whilst this villain's crucified the other's crowned.

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