266 tickets lottery tickets.
codille See the note on The Rape of the Lock, III, 92.
267 vapours See The Rape of the Lock, IV, 18.
268 China both the kingdom and a vase or teacup.
285 Phoebus Apollo, here as god of prophecy.
286 simple prayer presumably for beauty and riches.
289 the generous god Phoebus, here as god of poetry and
the sun by which gold generates in the earth.
292 good humour Compare The Rape of the Lock, V, 3 0
and the earlier ‘Epistle to Miss Blount with the works
of Voiture’, l. 61.
EPISTLE TO BURLINGTON(1731) ‘Occasioned by his Publishing Palladio’s Designs of the
Baths, Arches, Theatres etc. of Ancient Rome’ (from the title-
page of the first edition). Pope also gave it the half-title ‘Of
taste’ which subsequently became ‘Of false taste’. In the
Works of 1735 it is associated with the ‘Epistle to Bathurst’
with the common heading ‘Of the use of riches’. Although
written before the other three, in Pope’s arrangement it was
the fourth of these ethic epistles or moral essays. Richard
Boyle, Earl of Burlington (1695–1753), was largely
responsible for introducing the Palladian style into English
building, a severer, more classical style than the existing
baroque or rococo. Burlington House in Piccadilly and the
earl’s villa, Chiswick House, were based upon the designs of
the Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1518–80).
7 Topham the first of a series of collectors mentioned
here by Pope. The collection of Hans Sloane became
the nucleus of the British Museum.
13 Virro perhaps from virr—force, energy, vigour; here
misdirected.
15 Sir Visto A visto is a view seen at the end of an
avenue of clipped trees, chosen doubtless to echo
Virro. In neither case can any particular individual be
identified.
18 Ripley Thomas Ripley, architect and protégé of
Walpole.