Alexander Pope in aquamarine gloss (12th March 2008) - Polite Society was to police provincial diction to remove the slang & guttural stench from Shakespeare's lower speeches - all that was relevant & real to those in the pit - to use the dictionary to cleanse the language as Fielding used the police to rid the City of vice. (Daniel Foe, a son of a butcher, added a De & took to snuff). Pope a hunchbacked businessman attaching a levy to the transvestite verb. Defoe never did snuff in the butcher's shop.
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