Abstract

OVER THE YEARS Pope's bitch, Bounce by name, produced a number of puppies. Many of these Pope gave to noblemen, as Bounce herself remarked in her Epistle to Fop at court: to Strafford, Burlington, Cobham, Bathurst, and Oxford.' Then in 1736 Pope outdid himself and gave one of her whelps to Frederick, Prince of Wales, to help guard his house and garden at Kew.2 At about the same time, presumably, he presented His Highness with a collar for the dog, with this poem engraved on it: