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TO THE EARL OF BURLINGTON ASKING WHO WRIT LIBELS AGAINST HIM by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU WONDER WHO THIS THING HAS WRIT
Last Line: WHO CAN IT BE BUT FIBSTER H--Y.
Subject(s): HERVEY, JOHN. BARON HERVEY OF ICKWORTH;
You wonder Who this Thing has writ,
So full of Fibs, so void of Wit?
Lord! never ask who thus could serve ye?
Who can it be but Fibster H--y.



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