FOOTNOTES:
[1] The remainder of this sentence was omitted by Pope in the later editions of his poem.
[2] Pope forgot that he had transferred portions of the second book to his own imitation.
[3] The parallel passages from Chaucer were not given by Pope till 1736, and he then added the last sentence to the original advertisement.
[4] These remarks of Pope appeared in the form of a note to the first edition.
[5] Specimens of the British Poets, ed. Cunningham, p. 5.
[6] Singer's Spence, p. 211.
[7] Spence, p. 214.