THE

WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, Efq;

WITH HIS LAST

CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS,

AND

IMPROVEMENTS;

TOGETHER WITH

ALL HIS NOTES.

VOL. II.

Conson

Printed for W. CAVIL, T. MARTIN, T. FRENCH,
and J. WREN.

MDCCXCV.

CONTENTS.

HE WIFE

from Chaucer,

T The first book of STATIUS' THEBAIS,

VERTUMNUS and POMONA, from Ovid's meta-

morphofes,

Page

1

17

66

IMITATIONS,

I. Of CHAUCER,

II. Of SPENCER.

III. Of WALLER.

LUTE,

On a FAN of the author's defign, in which

was painted the flory of CEPHALIS and

PROCRIS, with the motto AURA VENI,

IV. Of COWLEY. The GARDEN.

WEEPING,

The ALLEY,

On a lady finging to her

V. Earl of ROCHESTER. ON SILENCE,

VI. Earl of DORSET.

ARTEMISIA,

PHRYNE,

VII. Of Dr SwIFT.

COUNTRY PARSON,

The happy life of a

73

74

76

77

ib.

78

79

81

82

83

PROLOGUE to the SATIRES, in an epifle to

Dr ARBUTHNOT,

88

SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE imitated

The fecond book of the fatires of Horace, Sat. I. III

The fecond book of the fatires of Horace, Sat. II. 125

The

The first book of the epiftles of Horace, Ep. I. 138

The first book of the epiftles of Horace, Ep. VI. 150

The fecond book of the epiftles of Horace, Ep. I. 158

The fecond book of the epistles of Horace, Ep. II. 188

SATIRES of Dr JOHN DONNE, Dean of St Paul's,

verfified.

SATIRE II.

SATIRE III. verfified by Dr PARNell,

SATIRE IV.

EPILOGUE to the SATIRÉS.

DIALOGUE I.

DIALOGUE II.

MISCELLANIES.

210

219

224

On receiving from the Right Honourable the

Lady FRANCES SHIRLEY a ftandish and two

pens,

268

1

MACER, a Character,

Song, by a perfon of Quality,

243

255

270

271

THE

THE

WIFE OF BATH,

From CHAUCER.

EHOLD woes of

Band hear with rev'rence an experienc'd wife!

To dear-bought wisdom give the credit due,
And think, for once, a woman tells you true.
In all these trials I have borne a part,

5

I was myself the fcourge that caus'd the smart;
For, fince fifteen, in triumph have I led
Five captive hufbands from the church to bed.

Chrift faw a wedding once, the Scripture fays;
And faw but one, 'tis thought, in all his days; 10
Whence fome infer, whofe confcience is too nice,
No pious Chriftian ought to marry twice.

But let them read, and folve me, if they can,
The words addrefs'd to the Samaritan:
Five times in lawful wedlock she was join'd; 15
And fure the certain ftint was ne'er defin'd.

Increafe and multiply, was Heav'n's command,
And that's a text I clearly understand.

This too,
"Let men their fires and mothers leave
And to their dearer wives for ever cleave." 20
More wives than one by Solomon were try'd,
Or elfe the wifeft of mankind's bely'd.

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