Brewer's: Allworthy

in Fielding's Tom Jones, is designed for the author's friend, Ralph Allen, of Bristol.

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Pope: Epilogue to Sat. i. 135, 136.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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