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Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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III. LINES.

[Fatis agimur, cedite fatis!]

i.

Fatis agimur, cedite fatis!
Which, in our Tongue, as I translate, is,
Fate rules us: then to Fate give way!
—Now, dreadful Critic! tell me pray,
What have you against this to say?
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My Pylades! what Juv'nal says, no Jest is;
Scriptus & in tergo, nec dum finitus Orestes.
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