mind as well. Studies have been translated exactly as was 
Bottom the Weaver.

          How closely Pope’s progress of Dulness over the 
     earth conforms to the concept of translatio studii  can be 
     seen easily if lines 65­112 of Dunciad III are compared to 
     this statement of the historic theme by an English 
     humanist of the fourteenth century, Richard de Bury: 
     ‘Admirable Minerva seems to bend her course to all the 
     nations of the earth, and reacheth from end to end 
     mightily, that she may reveal herself to all mankind. We 
     see that she has already visited the Indians, the 
     Babylonians, the Egyptians and Greeks, the Arabs and the 
     Romans. Now she has passed by Paris, and now has 
     happily come to Britain, the most noble of islands, nay, 
     rather a microcosm in itself, that she may show herself a