"Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant Brain, / While Peers and Dukes, and all their sweeping Train, / And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear, / And in soft sounds, <i>Your Grace</i> salutes their Ear."
The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem in Five Canto's
First published in 1712, in <u>Miscellaneous Poems and Translations</u>, in two cantos [reissued in 1714]. Five-Canto version in 1714, with additions in 1717. At least 26 entries in ESTC (1714, 1715, 1716, 1718, 1720, 1722, 1723, 1729, 1751, 1758, 1762, 1777, 1790, 1792, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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<u>The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In Five Canto's. Written by Mr. Pope.</u> (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys in Fleetstreet, 1714). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5726">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809311.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The Poems of Alexander Pope</u>, ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963). Also, ed. Cynthia Wall, <u>The Rape of the Lock</u> (Boston and New York: Bedford Books, 1998).