The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17/Inscription on the Picture of Mr. Pope

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 17
(1722)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

Inscription on the Picture of Mr. Pope

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— Inscription on the Picture of Mr. Pope1722Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

In the Picture Gallery at Oxford, is placed the Portrait of Mr. Pope, with this Inscription:

ALEXANDER POPE, ARMIGER.
ET,
QVOD EXIMIO APVD ERVDITAS NOMINI
INVIDENDAM ATTVLIT DIGNITATIS
ACCESSIONEM,
EFFIGIEM DEDIT,
ET VIRVM COHONESTAVIT,
A. D. MDCCXXII,
HONORATISSIMVS
EDWARDVS COMES OXON. ET MORTIMER.

In English:

ALEXANDER POPE, ESQUIRE.
And, what gives to a Name admired by
the Learned

An Accession of Dignity even to be envied,
This Shadow was presented,
And the Original honoured,
A. D. MDCCXXII,
By the Right Honourable
Edward Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.