his own magpie
Note by A Milnes to Other Publications a chapter of The Life Of Pope

'The coxcomb bird, so talkative and grave,
That from his cage cries Cuckold,. . ., and Knave,
Tho' many a passenger he rightly call,
You hold him no Philosopher at all.' — Moral Essays, i. 5.

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