...his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song),...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd...

...his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song),...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd...

...Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song), \\ nat drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped ; If foes they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd...

...clamn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And enrses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong. The world had wanted manv an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath...

...darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nham, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them, mad or vain. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they nrite ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized,...

...darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nhatn, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them, mad or vain. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; It foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized,...

...gratitude. If it had not been for Arbuthnot, posterity might Lave been deprived of a great deal of Pope. " Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song ;" says he, in his Epistle to the Doctor. And Dryden, in the " Postscript" to his translation of "...

...approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. — Cotcper. Friend to my life, (which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.)...remove .' Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or lore ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized...

...damn'd works the cause i Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love 7 A dire dilemma ! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write ; if friends, they read me dead. Seized...

...damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The...remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I 'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized...