Word: cibber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet...
...Cibber retaliated by citing a friendly service he had done Pope. The poet, Cibber explained, had once been "slyly seduced to a certain house of carnal recreation near the Haymarket" by a young nobleman who wanted to "see what sort of figure a man of [Pope's] size, sobriety and vigor (in verse) would make when the frail fit of love had got into him." Cibber, waiting in an adjoining room, became worried about Pope's health and the future of English poetry. He rushed through the door, "found this little hasty hero, like a terrible tomtit, pertly...