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

Note 717 — THE ARGUMENT.

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"Dreadful sacrifice" is the ritual term. So in the History of Loretto, 1608, ch. 20, p. 278, "The priest, as the use is, assisted the cardinal in the time of the dreadful sacrifice."—Steevens.

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