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Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903.

Poems: 1718–27

The Curll Miscellanies. VII. Epigram: An Empty House

YOU beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come:

Knock as you please, there ’s nobody at home.