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DAYS LIKE THESE 5 December 1732

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20021205
Author:Ian Irvine

Alexander Pope, poet, writes to Jonathan Swift: "It is not a time to complain that you have not answered me two letters. It is not now indeed a time to think of one's self when one of the nearest and longest ties I have ever had is broken all on a sudden, by the unexpected death of poor Mr Gay [the poet and author of The Beggar's Opera]. An inflammatory fever hurried him out of this life in three days. He died last night at nine o'clock, not deprived of his senses entirely at last, and possessing them perfectly till within five hours. He asked of you a few hours before, when in acute torment ...

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