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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
There goes a...
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said,
Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
Source: January and May, a translation of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, written aged sixteen or seventeen.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.