Mr. Riddle laments that he may be the only man in our time to appreciate Alexander Pope.

Excellent Sir, you have this wild old wicked man as company in your appreciation for the man whom I believe to be the finest craftsman of the English language. I can’t agree with everything Mr. Pope said, as he gets to close to fatalism for me, but I can’t argue with the way he said anything.

It’s thus fitting that Alexander Pope would be a man of such excellence while Pope Alexander VI would be so base since man is, after all:

Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!