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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10), Poetry - Volume 2

Note 414 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.

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Many modern editions read shrivelled, but Pope took his epithet, now obsolete, from Dryden's Flower and Leaf:

Then drooped the fading flow'rs, their beauty fled, And rivelled up with heat, lay dying in their bed.—Wakefield.

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