The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope
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His Grace will game: to White's a bull be led,
With spurning heels, and with a butting head: To White's be carried, as to ancient games, Fair coursers, vases, and alluring dames. 70 Shall then Uxorio, if the stakes he sweep, Bear home six whores and make his lady weep? Or soft Adonis, so perfumed and fine, Drive to St James's a whole herd of swine? Oh filthy check on all industrious skill, To spoil the nation's last great trade--quadrille? Since then, my lord, on such a world we fall, What say you? _B_. Say! Why, take it, gold and all. _P_. What riches give us, let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. _B_. What more? _P_. Meat, clothes, and fire. 80 Is this too little? would you more than live? Alas! 'tis more than Turner[27] finds they give. Alas! 'tis more than (all his visions past) Unhappy Wharton, waking, found at last! What can they give? to dying Hopkins,[28] heirs; To Chartres, vigour; Japhet,[29] nose and ears? Can they in gems bid pallid Hippia glow, In Fulvia's buckle ease the throbs below; Or heal, old Narses, thy obscener ail, |
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