Explain the following lines in "The Rape of the Lock". By Force to ravish, or by Fraud betray; For when Success a Lover's Toil attends, Few ask, if...

The following lines in Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" are
found in Canto Two, lines 32-34:

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By Force to ravish, or by Fraud
betray;
For when Success a Lover's Toil attends,
Few ask, if Fraud
or Force attain'd his
Ends.

In Canto Two, Belinda
is on a boat with many others traversing the Thames River. In the first part of the
canto, Pope is explaining the beauty of Belinda. The one thing on Belinda which
surpasses all else are the two locks of curls which hang by the side of her
face.

A Baron, whom is also aboard the boat, becomes
enamoured with Belinda's locks. He decides that he will have the locks by any means
necessary. (He had even built an alter so that he could ask for success in obtaining
them.)

The lines in question refer to the measures by which
the Baron will go to to possess Belinda's locks. Basically, the Baron is willing to take
the locks by force or by fraud. He is not necessarily concerned with how he obtains the
locks, only that he is able to claim them for his own.