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

Note 97 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

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The corresponding passage in Chaucer is not quoted by Pope, who translated from their common original, Virg. Æn. iv. 181:

Cui quot sunt corpore plumæ, Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot lunguæ, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit auris.

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