WHamilton RA del! FBartolozu Afculp The Graces stand in sight : a Satyr train Preps ver their head, and laughs "behind the scene. Parnell Publifhd 1Nov 1798.FI.Du Roveray. London. RAPE OF THE LOCK, ΑΝ 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 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 |