ALEXANDER POPE ESQ.

Engraved by H Holloway, from a Picture painted by I. Richardson,

in the possession of Bery." "Way Esq.

THE

WORKS

OF

Alexander Pope, Efq.

IN VERSE AND PROSE.

CONTAINING

THE PRINCIPAL NOTES OF

DRS. WARBURTON AND WARTON:

ILLUSTRATIONS, AND CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY REMARKS,

BY JOHNSON, WAKEFIELD, A. CHALMERS, F.S.A.

AND OTHERS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED,

SOME ORIGINAL LETTERS,

WITH ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

By the Rev. WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES, A. M.

PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY, AND
CHAPLAIN TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

IN TEN VOLUMES,
VOL. II.

FOR LIBRAR

1

EW-YORK

LONDON:

Printed for J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington,
W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardfon, R. Faulder and Son,
T. Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, Scatcherd and Letterman, J. Walker,
Vernor Hood and Sharpe, R. Lea, J. White, J. Nunn, Lackington Allen and
Co., J. Stockdale, Cuthell and Martin, Longman Hurft Rees and Orme,
Cadell and Davies, Pote and Williams, Ogilvie and Son, E. Jeffery,
J. Booker, J. and A. Arch, Blacks and Parry, S. Bagfter, J. Mawman
and J. Afperne.

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

[The Articles marked thus † were not inserted in DR. WARBURTON'S
Edition.]

Page

I

31

63

JANUARY and MAY, from Chaucer

113

The WIFE of BATH, from Chaucer

153

The First Book of STATIUS'S THEBAIS

177

The FABLE of DRYOPE, from Ovid's Metamorphofes 253

VERTUMNUS and POMONA, from Ovid's Metamor-

phofes

SAPPHO to PHAON, an Epistle from Ovid

ELOISA to ABELARD

The TEMPLE of FAME

IMITATIONS.

I. Of CHAUCER

II. Of SPENSER, The Alley

III. Of WALLER, on a Lady finging to her lute

On a FAN of the Author's Defign, in which

was painted the ftory of CEPHLALUS and

PROCRIS, with the Motto, AURA VENI

IV. Of CowLEY, The GARDEN

WEEPING

V. Of the E. of ROCHESTER, On SILENCE

VI. Of the E. of DORSET, ARTEMISIA

PHRYNE

VII. Of Dr. SWIFT, The happy life of a country

Parfon

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MISCEL

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MISCELLANIES.

Epistle to ROBERT Earl of Oxford and Mortimer 319

JAMES CRAGGS, Efq. Secretary of State 324

Mr. JERVAS, with Mr. DRYDEN'S Tranf-

lation of FRESNOY's Art of Paint-

ing

Mrs. BLOUNT, with the Works of Vor-

TURE

the fame, on her leaving the town after

the CORONATION

The BASSET-TABLE, an Eclogue

Verbatim from Boileau

Answer to a Question of Mrs. How

Occafioned by fome Verfes of his Grace the Duke of

BUCKINGHAM

326

351

A Prologue to a Play for Mr. DENNIS's benefit, in

1733, when he was old, blind, and in great

diftrefs, a little before his death

MACER, a character

To Mr. JOHN MOORE, author of the celebrated

Worm-Powder

SONG, by a Perfon of Quality, 1733

On a certain Lady at Court

On his Grotto at Twickenham, compofed of Mar-

ble, Spars, Gems, Ores, and Minerals

To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-day

To Mr. THOMAS SOUTHERN, on his Birth-day,

333

1742

+ ROXANA, or the Drawing Room, an Eclogue

To Lady MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE

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+ To Mr. GAY, congratulating him on finishing his

Houfe and Gardens

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Extemporaneous