THE

WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, Esq.

VOL. II.

Strahan and Preston, Printers-Street, London.

THE

WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, Esq.

IN VERSE AND PROSE.

WITH

A SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY NOTES,

AND

THE ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE

BY DR. JOHNSON.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR NICHOLS AND SON; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; OTRIDGE

AND SON; WILKIE AND ROBINSON; J. WALKER; R. LEA; J. NUNN;
LACKINGTON, ALLEN AND CO.; J. STOCKDALE; J. CUTHELL; CLARKE
AND SONS ; WHITE AND COCHRANE ; LONGMAN, HURST, REES,
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J, BOOKER; J. AND A. ARCH; BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY ;
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AND J. JOHNSON AND CO,

1812.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

Page

THE RAPE of the LOCK

ELEGY to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady 41

PROLOGUE to Mr. ADDISON'S Tragedy of Cato 45

EPILOGUE to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore

SAPPHO to PHAON, an Epistle from Ovid

ELOISA to ABELARD

63

48

53

85

III

TRANSLATIONS and IMITATIONS :

The TEMPLE of FAME

JANUARY and May, from Chaucer

The WIFE of BATH, from Chaucer

143

The First Book of STATIUS'S THEBAIS

161

The FABLE of DRYOPE, from Ovid's Metamorphoses 197

VERTUMNUS and POMONA, from Ovid's Metamor-

phoses

203

233

215

218

IMITATIONS of ENGLISH POETS:

I. Of CHAUCER

II. Of SPENSER, The Alley

III. Of WALLER, on a Lady singing to her Lute

On a Fan of the Author's Design, in which

was painted the story of CEPHALUS and

PROCRIS, with the Motto, AURA VENI

IV. Of COWLEY, The GARDEN

WEEPING

219

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