[Footnote 1: The remainder of this sentence was omitted by Pope in the
later editions of his poem.]
[Footnote 2: Pope forgot that he had transferred portions of the second
book to his own imitation.]
[Footnote 3: The parallel passages from Chaucer were not given by Pope
till 1736, and he then added the last sentence to the original
advertisement.]
[Footnote 4: These remarks of Pope appeared in the form of a note to the
first edition.]
[Footnote 5: Specimens of the British Poets, ed. Cunningham, p. 5.]
[Footnote 6: Singer's Spence, p. 211.]
[Footnote 7: Spence, p. 214.]