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Publifhd 1Nov 1798.FI.Du Roveray. London.

RAPE OF THE LOCK,

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HEROI-COMICAL POEM,

BY

A. POPE.

ADORNED WITH PLATES.

LONDON:

Printed by C. Bensley;

FOR F. J. DU ROVERAY, GREAT ST. HELENS;

AND SOLD BY J. AND A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-

STREET; AND J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY.

1798.

280. j
j. 305.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Rape of the Lock was first published in the year 1711, and was written in less than a fortnight. It was occasioned by a frolic, carried rather beyond the bounds of good breeding, in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Mrs. Arabella Fermor's hair: the poem was undertaken at the request of Mr. Caryl, in order to reconcile the two families, this frolic having occasioned a serious rupture between them.

It was received with such universal ap

plause as to induce Pope to extend it the fol

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