[Footnote 1: In the year 1700. They were the most popular of Dryden's
works, and were in the hands of every reader when Pope was learning his
art.]
[Footnote 2: This advertisement was first prefixed by Pope to vol. iii.
of his works, 8vo, 1736. The contents of the "juvenile volume" were The
Temple of Fame, Sappho to Phaon, Vertumnus and Pomona, The Fable of
Dryope, The first book of Statius's Thebais, January and May, The Wife
of Bath's Prologue, and the Imitations of English Poets. Pope apologises
for printing the Imitations by saying that they had got into
Miscellanies, which is an insinuation that the pieces had found their
way to the press without his consent. It was he himself who published
them. They are inserted in the present edition among the minor poems.]