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

Note 1567 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)

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Warton remarks that this simile, which is copied from Chaucer, was used by Pope in two other places,—The Temple of Fame, ver. 436, and the Dunciad, ii. ver. 407.

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