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The Augustan Reprint Society

TWO POEMS AGAINST POPE:

ONE EPISTLE
TO MR. A. POPE

LEONARD WELSTED
(1730)

THE BLATANT BEAST

ANONYMOUS
(1740)

INTRODUCTION
BY