Notes
1] Pope admits in his letter to Cromwell that he thinks of himself as "the Least Thing like a Man in England," partly thanks to the humiliating jesting of a lady recently about his small size. He continues: "some days after, to be reveng'd on her, I presented her amongst other Company the following Rondeau on that occasion ..." (89-90). This is the best evidence of his authorship of the waspish piece, which is accepted as genuine in Minor Poems, ed. Norman Ault and John Butt (London: Methuen, 1954): 61 (PR 3621 B82 Robarts Library).
2] Tother: The other.
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Original text: letter from Alexander Pope to Henry Cromwell, June 24, 1710, in The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn, Vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956): 90.
First publication date:
26
February
1726
Publication date note: In Mist's Weekly Journal
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2000.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/15
Composition date:
1710
Rhyme: aaaab aaaab