The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17/Epigram - Bishop John Hough

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 17
 (c. 1717)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner
Epigram - Bishop John Hough
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This work was probably written by Alexander Pope. See The Works of Alexander Pope (1995). Wordsworth Edition Ltd. p. 396.

1676929The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 17
— Epigram - Bishop John Houghc. 1717Jonathan Swift
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EPIGRAM.

A BISHOP by his neighbours hated
Has cause to wish himself translated;
But why should Hough desire translation,
Lov'd and esteem'd by all the nation?
Yet, if it be the old man's case,
I'll lay my life I know the place:
'Tis where God sent some that adore him,
And whither Enoch went before him.


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