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

Note 160 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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This alludes to General Stanhope's campaigns on the Ebro, and the Duke of Marlborough's on the Danube.—Croker.

In saying that British blood should no more dye foreign lands, Pope meant to furnish an argument for the Peace by intimating that the war was kept up, at the sacrifice of English life, for the benefit of other nations.

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