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.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

THE RAPE of the Lock

ELEGY to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady

PROLOGUE to Mr. ADDISON'S Tragedy of Cato

EPILOGUE to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore
SAPPHO to PHAON, an Epistle from Ovid

ELOISA to ABELARD

TRANSLATIONS and IMITATIONS:

The TEMPLE of FAME

JANUARY and MAY, from Chaucer

Page

143

161

The WIFE of BATH, from Chaucer

The First Book of STATIUS'S THEBAIS

The FABLE of DRYOPE, from Ovid's Metamorphoses 197

VERTUMNUS and POMONA, from Ovid's Metamor-
phoses

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203

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

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