THE

RAPE of the LOCK.

BUT

CANTO IV.

UT anxious cares the penfive nymph op→
prefs'd,

And fecret paffions labour'd in her breast.
Not youthful kings in battle feiz'd alive,
Not fcornful virgins who their charms furvive,
Not ardent lovers robb'd of all their blifs,

Not ancient ladies when refus'd a kifs,

Not tyrants fierce that unrepenting die,

Not Cynthia when her manteau's pinn'd awry,
E'er felt fuch rage, refèntment and despair,
As thou, fad Virgin! for thy ravish'd Hair.

VARIATIONS.

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VER. II. For that fad moment, etc.] All the lines from hence to the 94th verfe that defcribe the houfe of Spleen are not in the first Edition; instead of them followed only these,

While her rack'd Soul repofe and peace requires,

The fierce Thaleftris fans the rifing fires.

And continued at the 94th Verfe of this Canto. P.

IMITATIONS.

VER. 1. Virg. Æn. iv. At regina gravi, etc. P

For, that fad moment, when the Sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy fprite,

As ever fully'd the fair face of light,

Down to the central earth, his proper scene, 15
Repair'd to fearch the gloomy Cave of Spleen.
Swift on his footy pinions flits the Gnome,

And in a vapour reach'd the dismal dome.
No chearful breeze this fullen region knows,
The dreaded Eaft is all the wind that blows. 20
Here in a grotto, fhelter'd close from air,

And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare,
She fighs for ever on her penfive bed,

Pain at her fide, and Megrim at her head.
Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place,
But diff'ring far in figure and in face.
Here ftood Ill-nature like an ancient maid,

Her wrinckled form in black and white array'd;
With ftore of pray'rs, for mornings, nights, and

noons,

Her hand is fill'd; her bofom with lampoons. 30

There Affectation, with a fickly mien,

Shows in her cheek the rofes of eighteen,
Practis'd to lifp, and hang the head afide,

THE

RAPE of the LOCK.

BUT

CANTO IV.

UT anxious cares the penfive nymph of
prefs'd,

And fecret paffions labour'd in her breast.
Not youthful kings in battle feiz'd alive,
Not fcornful virgins who their charms furvive
Not ardent lovers robb'd of all their blifs,
Not ancient ladies when refus'd a kifs,
Not tyrants fierce that unrepenting die,
Not Cynthia when her manteau's pinn'd awry
E'er felt fuch rage, refentment and despair,
As thou, fad Virgin! for thy ravifh'd Hair.

VARIATIONS.

VER. II. For that fad moment, etc.] All the lines hence to the 94th verfe that defcribe the houfe of Spleen: in the firft Edition; inftead of them followed only thefe, While her rack'd Soul repofe and peace requires, The fierce Thaleftris fans the rifing fires.

And continued at the 94th Verte of this Canto. P.

IMITATIONS.

VER. 1. Virg. Ma. v. Ategia gravi, etc. P

For, that fad moment when s
And Ariel weeping from Re
Umbriel, a duiky, melanes

As ever fully'd the fair tact
Down to the central ear..
Repair'd to fearch the glans
Swift or hus iɔoty nuID
And in a vapour reach, a th
No chearf breeze this le
The dreaded Eaft id tem
Here in a grotto, fetter

And fcreen in fnaces

The fighs for ever on net
Pelin at her fide, and M

Two handmade w

Bex diffring far in Eg

Here food I-nature List m

Finckled for:

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On the rich quilt finks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for fickness, and for show.
The fair-ones feel fuch maladies as thefe,
When each new night-dress gives a new disease.
A conftant Vapour o'er the palace flies;
Strange phantoms rifing as the mists arise;
Dreadful, as hermits dreams in haunted fhades,
Or bright, as vifions of expiring maids.
Now glaring fiends, and fnakes on rolling fpires,
Pale spectres, gaping tombs, and purple fires:
Now lakes of liquid gold, Elyfian scenes,
And crystal domes, and Angels in machines.

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Unnumber'd throngs on ev'ry fide are seen, Of bodies chang'd to various forms by Spleen. Here living Tea-pots ftand, one arm held out, One bent; the handle this, and that the spout: A Pipkin there, like Homer's Tripod walks; 51 Here fighs a Jar, and there a Goose-pye talks

NOTES.

VER. 41. Dreadful as hermits dreams in haunted fhades, Or bright as vifions of expiring maids.] The poet by this comparifon would infinuate, that the temptations of the mortified reclufes in the Church of Rome, and the extatic vifions of their female faints were as much the effects of hypochondriac diforders, the Spleen, or, what was then the fashionable word, the Vapours, as any of the imaginary transformations he speaks of .afterwards.