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Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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VII. The Metonymy.

Lac'd in her Cosins new appear'd the Bride,
A Bubble-boy and Tompion at her Side,
And with an Air divine her Colmar ply'd.
Then oh! she cries, what Slaves I round me see?
Here a bright Redcoat, there a smart Toupee.