Sunday, August 22, 2010

POPE: Oh! if to dance all Night, and dress all Day,

Oh! if to dance all Night, and dress all Day,
Charm'd the Small-pox, or chas'd old Age away;
Who would not scorn what Huswife's Cares produce,
Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use?
--Alexandra Pope, The Rape of the Lock, 1717. rr16auh

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