2. Except as noted below, spelling and capitalization inconsistencies have been retained.
3. Pope often wrote names with dashes replacing part of the name, as in 'Sw--y'. The dashes look like em-dashes in the original, but they have been changed to long dashes; thus, 'Sw----y'.
4. On [p. 60], the first footnote ([footnote 195]) ('This couplet is succeeded by two...') has nothing in the text pointing to it; however the [couplet] on lines 426 and 427 is marked in pen at the side. This could be the couplet referred to in footnote 195.
5. On [p. 126], the second footnote ([footnote 318]) ('Spence, p. 178.') has nothing in the text pointing to it; however it seems likely that it refers to the [quote] ending 'He has an appetite to satire.'
6. On [p. 127], 'terrestial' (in the [phrase ]'Whose shapes seemed not like to terrestial boys,') was changed to 'terrestrial'.
7. On the unnumbered [page] between p. 144 and p. 146, the line in the third footnote ([footnote 369]), 'If any muse assists the poet's lays' had 'asists' in the original.
8. On [p. 146], in the fourth footnote ([footnote 375]) the [phrase] 'I myself, about the year 1790' was 'I myself, about the year year 1790' in the original.
9. On the unnumbered [page] before p. 186, the [line] 'Launched on the bosom of the silver Thames' had 'bosm' in the original.
10. On [p. 231], the third footnote ([footnote 576]) ('Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 5th ed. vol. i. p. 33....') has nothing in the text pointing to it.
11. On [p. 254], the first footnote ([footnote 697]) ('The combination "heavenly-fair"...') had nothing in the text pointing to it; a pointer has been added after the first line on the page, which starts 'Oh grace serene!'