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A poem by this author criticizes "fools" who "roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe'" and are "ten times worse when they repent." In that poem, this author asked, "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" (20[2])This poet wrote "drop into thyself, and be a fool" in a poem asserting "the proper study of Mankind is Man." This poet of (*) "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" wrote "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" (0[1])and "to err is human; to forgive, divine." This author of "An Essay on Criticism" wrote an epic about the goddess Dulness. One work by this poet of The Dunciad details a crime committed by the Baron with a pair of scissors. For 10 points, name this author of a mock-epic about the theft of Belinda's (10[1])hair, The Rape of the Lock. ■END■

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