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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. III. The Eighteenth Century: Addison to Blake

Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

Another: ‘Yes, every poet is a fool’

YES, every poet is a fool:

By demonstration Ned can show it:

Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule

Prove every fool to be a poet.