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Baʹvius

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Any bad poet. (See Baviad.)

May some choice patron bless each grey goose quill,

May every Bavius have his Bufo still.”


Pope: Prologue to the Satires, 249–50.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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