HISTORY OF IIARTIXG. 159 



With these lines we may couple one extract from 

 the Squire's religious treatises, written towards the 

 close of his life, where dealing with the end of man 

 he puts forward "this great and undoubted truth, 

 that I was borne butt to be saved." 



To the end of his life Pope was on the closest 

 terms of intimacy with him. Lord Petre, Pope's hero 

 in the Rape of the Lock, shewed such confidence in 

 him that he made him Trustee of his will. He was 

 godfather to half the county the Tichbornes of 

 Tichborne, the Lacys, the Blounts of Mapeldurham, 

 the Bluetts, the Wells', the Dormers, as also to the 

 Hattons, and to humble " Nan Hutching's child," 

 to whom he stood in Halting Church. Pope had two 

 afflictions, in 1732, when he wrote to Caryll, "Poor 

 Gay has gone before, and has not left an honester 

 man behind him"; and in 1733 (June 25), when his 

 mother Editha Pope died, aged 93, he wrote again 

 to his oldest friend " my attendance upon her living 

 was not virtue, but only duty, and my melancholy for 

 her dead is not virtue, but weakness. I thank God her 

 life was innocent, her death easy, and her state I doubt 

 not happy. May yours and mine be just the same. 

 To see you at Lady Holt i^as tJie first tlwug]it I had 

 npon tins event: but as it is a great and new era 

 of my life, and upon which the w r hole course of it 

 will in a manner change, I must pause awhile and 

 look about me. In the first place I am acting like 

 one that may die myself and settling all that belongs 

 to me, or that thro' me may affect any others. I am 

 paying all I owe, and disposing all my papers, &c., 

 before I leave this place (Twickenham), to which I 

 have no intention to return for a good while, it has 

 become so melancholy to me. . . I rather think to 

 come to you from Southampton (Lord Peterboro's) 

 in a month or less." In the same year, Sep. 4, 1733, 

 he wrote " God willing, I will be at Guildford on 

 Sunday night or Monday morning the 9th inst, at 



