This is my last will and testament, written with my own hand, and sealed with my seal, this twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-three. ALEXANDER POPE. Signed, sealed, and declared by the testator as his last will and testament, in presence of us, RADNOR. STEPHEN HALES, Minister of Teddington. JOSEPH SPENCE, Professor of History in the University of Oxford. Windsor Forest, and Ode on St. Cecilia's Day Rape of the Lock, with additions, in five Cantos. Iliad, second volume Eloisa to Abelard, and third volume of the Iliad 1725 Third Epistle, and First Satire of second book of Horace 1733 In the present edition, from its appearance in monthly parts, this order is changed, for the purpose of varying and contrasting more advantageously the styles and subjects of the poems. The prefaces and notes are chiefly original: where they are borrowed to any marked extent, an acknowlegement of the source is made. |