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Old 02-16-2011, 03:52 PM   #8304
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I just finished An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope. Amid the more familiar quotations from this work are lines that would have been considered quite risqué in their day. He choose to censor words that may have been considered offensive to his readers by the use of asterisks, but the rhyme scheme leaves little doubt as to what words he was referring to in such passages as:

.....And has not Colley still his lord, and w***e?
.....His butchers Henley, his free-masons Moore?
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