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