So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song,
As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along:
But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride,
That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died.
On Mrs Tofts, A Celebrated Opera Singer
Alexander Pope
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