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Rh What then? the self-same blunder Pope has got,

And careless Dryden—"Aye, but Pye has not:"—

Indeed!—'tis granted, faith!—but what care I?

Better to err with, than shine with.

Time was, ere yet in these degenerate days

Ignoble themes obtained mistaken praise,