cer, 3;
in ill-health, 4;
returns to Barnstaple, 4;
early writings, 4-5;
youthful love affair, 5-6;
in improved health, 7;
returns to London, 7;
life in the Metropolis, 7-8;
love of food, drink, and dress, 8-9;
"Wine," 9-10;
"The Present State of Wit," 11-14;
makes acquaintance with Henry Cromwell and Pope, 14;
"On a Miscellany of Poems to Bernard Lintott," 14-16;
becomes intimate with Pope, 17;
domestic secretary to the Duchess of Monmouth, 18-19;
"Rural Sports," 20;
some minor verses, 20;
"The Fan," 20-21;
"The Wife of Bath," 21, 113, 115-116;
his charm, 21-22;
Pope as his protector and adviser, 22;
"Memoirs of Scriblerus," 23;
"The Shepherd's Week," 24-28;
appointed Secretary to Lord Clarendon's
Mission to Hanover, 1714, 29;
letters from Hanover, 29;
returns to England on death of Queen Anne, 33;
"A Letter to a Lady," 34-35;
"The What D'ye Call It," 35, 36-39;
recognised as a man of letters, 39;
visit to Exeter with the Earl of Burlington, 39;
"Trivia," 39-40;
"Court Poems," 40;
"The Toilet," 41;
second visit to Devonshire, 41;
"Three Hours After Marriage," 41-45;
visits the Continent with Pulteney, 45-46;
intimate with the Maids of Honour, 46;
and with the Hon. Mrs. Howard, 46-47;
again abroad with Pulteney, 48;
his literary reputation in 1720, 50;
"Poems on Several Occasions," 50;
given a present of South Sea stock,
and invests his fortune in it, 52;
loses his money when the "Bubble" bursts, 53;
financial embarrassment, 53;
the desire of his friends to aid him, 54;
the disappointment affects his health, 55;
recuperates at Bath, 55;
appointed a Commissioner of the State Lottery and
given an apartment in Whitehall, 57;
at Tunbridge Wells, 58;
correspondence with the Hon. Mrs. Howard, 59-64;
"The Captives," 65;
dedication to the Princess of Wales, 65;
again at Bath, 66, 67;
first meeting with Swift, 68;
becomes more intimate with the Duke and
Duchess of Queensberry, 69;
"The Fables" (first series), 69;
dedication to Prince William Augustus, 69;
his expectation of a post at Court, 70;
offered appointment of Gentleman Usher to the Princess Louisa, 70;
his indignation, 70;
refuses the post, 70;
the opinions of Pope and Swift on the offer, 71-74;
lampooned, 75-77;
"The Beggar's Opera," 78-91, 93;
at Bath, 92-94;
"Polly," 95-101, 108;
loses his Comm