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Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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EPIGRAM.

On Cibber's Declaration that he will have the Last Word with Mr. Pope.

Quoth Cibber to Pope, tho' in Verse you foreclose,
I'll have the last Word, for by G*d I'll write Prose.
Poor Colley, thy Reas'ning is none of the strongest,
For know, the last Word is the Word that lasts longest.