Oh let me live my own! and die so too! (“To live and die is all I have to do:”) Maintain a poet’s dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! (“To live and die is all I have to do:”) Maintain a poet’s dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please (Alexander Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot.)