Pope was enriched by his success, and no doubt wearied by his labours.

But his restless intellect would never leave him to indulge in prolonged repose, and, though not avaricious, he was not more averse than other men to increasing his fortune.

He soon undertook two sufficiently laborious works.

The first was an edition of Shakspeare, for which he only received 217_l._ 10_s._, and which seems to have been regarded as a failure.

It led, like his other publications, to a quarrel to be hereafter mentioned, but need not detain us at present.