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The
Rape
of the
Lock
.
an heroi-comical poem: in five canto's
Written by Mr. POPE.
—A tonso est hoc nomen adepta capillo.
OVID
London:
Printed for
Bernard Lintott
, at the
Cross-Keys
in
Fleetstreet
,
1714
TO Mrs. ARABELLA FERMOUR.
MADAM,
It will be in vain to deny that I have some value for this piece, since I dedicate it to you. Yet you may bear me witness, it was intended only to divert a few young Ladies, who have good sense and good Humour enough, to laugh not only at their sex's little unguarded Follies, but at their own. But as it was communicated with the Air of a Secret, it soon found its Way into the World. An imperfect Copy having been offer'd to a Bookseller, You had the Good-Nature for my Sake to consent to the publication of one more correct: This I was forc'd to be- fore I had executed half my Design, for the
Machinery
was entirely wanting to compleat it.
The
Machinery
Madam, is a Term invented by the Critiks, to signify that Part which the Deities, Angels, or Dæ- mons, a . . .
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