The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life 1

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life 1
Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce
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But let its fortune be what it will, mine is happy enough, to have given me this occasion of assuring you that I am, with the truest esteem, Madam, Your most obedient, humble servant, A. Pope.
THE RAPE OP THE LOCK.
Nolneram, Belinda, taos yiolnre capillos; Sed juvat, boo precibos me tribuisse tuis. mabt.
CANTO L What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing — ^This verse to Caryl,* muse ! is due: This, e'en Belinda may vouchsafe to view : S
...light is the subject, but not so the praise.
If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
Say what strange motive, goddess ! could compel A well-bred lord t' assault a gentle -belle ?
O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd, Could make a gentle belle reject a lord ?
In tasks so bold can little men engage.
And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty rage ?
Sol through white curtains shot a timorous raj, And op'd those eyes that must eclipse the day.
1- Secretary to Queen Mary, wife of James II. ; and author of Sir Solomon Single^ a comedy, and of several translations in Dryden^s MUcellames, Ho first suggested the subject of this poem to the author.


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