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Excerpt from Long Ago, 1873, Vol. 1: A Journal of Popular Antiquities
We will begin with Curl], because we can dismiss his statements as unreliable. He says that Pope was born in Cheapside and he and the malig nant crew, whom Pope's satire had lashed into a state of fury, describe his father variously as a hatter, a mechanic, a farmer, and a bankrupt. Not one of these statements is worthy of belief, though they forced from the poet the counter statement that he came of gentle blood from both parents.
Ayre, writing the year after the poet's death, simply says he was born in London, and does not mention the calling of his father.
Dilworth (1759) does not mention the place of his birth nor the trade of his father.
Spence, in his Anecdotes, says that Pope was born in Lombard-street, at the house which is now Mr. Morgan's, an apothecary, and that his father was an honest merchant and dealt in Hol lands wholesale.
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