Note 387 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Reading edition
Jam clypeus clypeis, umbone repellitur umbo. Ense minax ensis, pede pes, et cuspide cuspis, &c. Statius.—Warburton.
To drive a coach has an exclusive technical meaning, which renders Pope's phrase improper for expressing that the thought of a second coach obliterates from the minds of belles the thought of a previous coach.