The Rape of the Lock

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The Rape of the Lock (1714)
by Alexander Pope

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On first publication, in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translation, by Various Hands (1712), the poem consisted of only two cantos. It was first published as a separate work, in its enlarged 5 canto form, in 1714. This transcription is of the second edition, which appeared the same year. [Based on Alexander Pope: A Bibliography, Volume 1, Part 1 (1922), by Reginald Harvey Griffith, pp.16-34.]

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Frontispice.

Lud. Du Guernier inv.C. Du Boʃc sculp.

THE

RAPE of the LOCK

AN

HEROI-COMICAL

P O E M.

In Five Canto's.

Written by Mr. POPE.

———A tonʃo eʃt hoc nomen adepta capillo.

Ovid.

The SECOND EDITION.

L O N D O N:

Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the

Croʃs-Keys in Fleet-ʃtreet, 1714.

Contents (not listed in original)

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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