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" I found him close with Swift— Indeed? no doubt (Cries prating Balbus) something will come out.' 'Tis all in vain, deny it as I will: 'No, such a genius never can lie still'; And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will or Bubo makes. "
Politeness and Poetry in the Age of Pope - Page 129
by Thomas M. Woodman - 1989 - 166 pages
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