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in the Night Thoughts, was Elizabeth Lee, Dr. Young’s step-daughter. In Night iii. the poet says she was clandestinely buried at Montpelier, because, being a Protestant, she was “denied the charity that dogs enjoy.” (For Pope’s Narcissa see Nancy.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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