Note 587 — THE ARGUMENT.
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He followed Milton in the Penseroso:
Forget thyself to marble.—Wakefield.
Heloisa to Abelard: "O vows! O convent! I have not lost my humanity under your inexorable discipline. You have not made me marble by changing my habit." With the exception of a passage or two quoted by Wakefield, all the extracts in the notes are from Pope's chief text-book, the English work of Hughes, which is very unfaithful to the Latin original.