THE WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE.

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Then fee them broke with Toils, or 161 { Or infamous for plunder'd Provinces. Oh Wealth ill-fated! which no Act of E'er taught to fhine, or fanctify'd from What greater blifs attends the clofe c Some greedy Minion, or imperious Wi ^ Of Wealth ill-fated! which no act of IF Eir ought to shine or What wender tryumphs never burn'd his ba sanctified from Fill'd with mean Hence see hum modest free from pride. fear to lose mean joy Some Vice were too high but have too r Go then indulge thy age in Wealth & gase Stratched on the sports of plunder'd palaces ^ Alas what ease those fumes of thy life Ambitie Avrice & the inpassen, Wife

FACSIMILE

of two pages of the Essay on Man, Book IV,
quarto edition of Pope's Works 1735, with M.S alterati
prepar
including a character of Marlborough hitherto unpub