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

Note 26 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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No wonder savages or subjects slain— But subjects starved, while savages were fed.

It was originally thus, but the word "savages" is not properly applied to beasts, but to men; which occasioned the alteration.—Pope.

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