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EPIGRAM IN BEHALF OF MR. SOUTHERNE by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: ARGYLE HIS PRAISE, WHEN SOUTHERNE WROTE
Last Line: THEY'LL FIT NO MAN ALIVE.
Subject(s): SOUTHERNE, THOMAS (1660-1746); SOUTHERN, THOMAS;

Argyle his Praise, when Southerne wrote,
First struck out this, and then that Thought;
Said this was Flatt'ry, that a Fault.
How shall your Bard contrive?

My Lord, consider what you do,
He'll lose his Pains and Verses too;
For if these Praises fit not You,
They'll fit no Man alive.



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