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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10), Poetry - Volume 2

Note 1216 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)

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The MS. has two other versions of this line:

Check but its force or compass short of ill. Turn but the bias from the side of ill.

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