Note 401 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Reading edition
A parody on the beginning of the second and tenth books of the Iliad.—Wakefield.
Pope's own translation of the commencement of the tenth book has a close resemblance to the lines in the Rape of the Lock:
All night the chiefs before their vessels lay, And lost in sleep the labours of the day: All but the king; with various thoughts oppressed His country's cares lay rolling in his breast.