Pope: 'Epilogue To The Satire 

Alexander Pope

Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
When truth or virtue an affront endures,
The affront is mine, my friend and should be yours,
Mine as a foe profess'd to false pretense, 
Who thinks a coxcomb's honor like this sense;
Mine as a friend to every worthy mind
    And mine as a man, who feels all mankind.  
 

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