The rape of the lock : an heroi-comical poem in five cantos . The Rape of the Lock AN HEROI-COMICAL POEMIN FIVE CANTOS WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER POPE EMBROIDERED WITH NINE DRAWINGS BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY Noluerara, Belinda, tuos violare capillos ; Sed juvat, hoc precibus me tiibuisse tuis.—Mart. A tonso est hoc nomen adepta capillo.—Ovid. LONDON LEONARD SMITHERS ARUNDEL STREETMDCCCXCVI ion f ^ro CHISWICK :—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND COURT, CHANXERY LANE, LONDON. TO EDMUND GOSSE THIS NEW EDITION OF THE RAPE OF THE LOCK THE DRAWINGS TO FACE 1. The Dream title page 2. The Billet-Doux i 3. Th


The rape of the lock : an heroi-comical poem in five cantos . The Rape of the Lock AN HEROI-COMICAL POEMIN FIVE CANTOS WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER POPE EMBROIDERED WITH NINE DRAWINGS BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY Noluerara, Belinda, tuos violare capillos ; Sed juvat, hoc precibus me tiibuisse tuis.—Mart. A tonso est hoc nomen adepta capillo.—Ovid. LONDON LEONARD SMITHERS ARUNDEL STREETMDCCCXCVI ion f ^ro CHISWICK :—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND COURT, CHANXERY LANE, LONDON. TO EDMUND GOSSE THIS NEW EDITION OF THE RAPE OF THE LOCK THE DRAWINGS TO FACE 1. The Dream title page 2. The Billet-Doux i 3. The Toilet 6 4. The Barons Prayer 8 5. The Barge 10 6. The Rape of the Lock 20 7. The Cave of Spleen 24 8. The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles ... 34 9. The New Star 38 ADVERTISEMENT THE RAPE OF THE LOCK was first publishedin the year 1712, by Bernard Lintott, at the sign ofthe Cross-Keys, between the two Temple Gates, FleetStreet. It was then in two cantos. It was occasioned bya frolic, carried rather beyond the bounds of good breeding,in which Lordrapeoflockheroic00popeuoft


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