Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his … - Alexander Pope

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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

Alexander Pope

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

Beer, Father, Parson, Pens, Rhyming, Soul

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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