ABSTRACT
Pope's dog, Bounce, had been entrusted to Lord Orrery, under whose care she died. On 10 April 1744, he wrote to Orrery:
I dread to enquire into the particulars of ye Fate of Bounce. Perhaps you conceald them, as Heav'n often does Unhappy Events, in pity to the Survivors, or no: to hasten on my End by Sorrow. I doubt not how much Bounce was lamented: They might say as the Athenians did to Arcite, in Chaucer,
Ah Arcite! gentle Knight! why would'st thou die, When thou had'st Gold enough, and Emilye?
