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Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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[Presentation Verses to Nathaniel Pigott]

The Muse this one Verse to learn'd Pigot addresses,
In whose Heart, like his Writings, was never found flaw;
Whom Pope prov'd his Friend in his two chief distresses,
Once in danger of Death, once in danger of Law.

Sept. 23. 1726.