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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
Shut, shut the...
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Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued I said.
Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.
The dog-star rages!
Source: Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 1
-- 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.