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EPILOGUE TO MR. ROWE'S JANE SHORE. 149

He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving;
And sure such kind good creatures may be living.
In days of old, they pardon'd breach of vows,
Stern Cato's self was no relentless spouse:
Plu-Plutarch, what's his name, that writes his life?
Tells us, that Cato dearly lov'd his wife:
Yet if a friend, a night or so, should need her,
He'd recommend her as a special breeder.
To lend a wife, few here would scruple make;
But, pray, which of you all would take her back?
Though with the stoic chief our stage may ring,
The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country-but what's that to you?
Those strange examples ne'er were made to fit ye,
But the kind cuckold might instruct the city:
There, many an honest man may copy Cato,
Who ne'er saw naked sword, or look'd in Plato.
If, after all, you think it a disgrace,

That Edward's miss thus perks it in your face;
To see a piece of failing flesh and blood,
In all the rest so impudently good;

Faith, let the modest matrons of the town
Come here in crowds, and stare the strumpet down.

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C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer, 103, Goswell Street.

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS:

BY

THOMAS PARK, F.S. A.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed at the Stanhope Press,

BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM,
103, Goswell Street;

FOR J. SHARPE; AND SOLD BY W. SUTTABY,
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