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

Note 666 — THE ARGUMENT.

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This couplet, and its wretched rhymes, seem derived from an elegy of Walsh in Dryden's Miscellanies:

I know I ought to hate you for the fault; But oh! I cannot do the thing I ought.—Wakefield.

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