The Rape of the Lock. A mock-heroic poem. Canto I • Paragraph 267
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But now he throws that shallow habit by, Wherein deep policy did him disguise, And armed his long-hid wits advisedly, To check the tears in Collatinus’ eyes. “Thou wronged lord of Rome,” quoth he, “arise! Let my unsounded self, supposed a fool, Now set thy long-experienced wit to school.