THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE

With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes,

By The Rev. George Gilfillan.

VOL. II.

M.DCCC.LVI.

CONTENTS

THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE.

MORAL ESSAYS.

EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM. OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN.

EPISTLE III.[20]—TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. OF THE USE OF RICHES.

EPISTLE IV.—TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. OF THE USE OF RICHES.

EPISTLE V. TO MR ADDISON. OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS.[54]

TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS. SAPPHO TO PHAON. FROM THE FIFTEENTH OF OVID'S EPISTLES.

THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.[56] FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, FROM THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS. TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.

JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER.[58]

THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE. FROM CHAUCER.

PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES

A PROLOGUE TO A PLAY FOR MR DENNIS'S BENEFIT, IN 1733, WHEN HE WAS OLD, BLIND, AND IN GREAT DISTRESS, A LITTLE BEFORE HIS DEATH.

PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S 'CATO.'

PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S 'SOPHONISBA.'[59]

PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY.

PROLOGUE TO 'THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE'

EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE.' DESIGNED FOR MRS OLDFIELD.

MISCELLANIES

THE BASSET-TABLE.[62] AN ECLOGUE.

LINES ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY[63] A STANDISH AND TWO PENS.

VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, ETC.

ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE.

OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

MACER: A CHARACTER.

SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733.

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