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tion ¶ yur Preface, that you were not the Man; but 
ſome People that know p. think that no kind of 
Evidence. I indeed believ'd that a Writer of his 
Figure and Reputation could never NN 
ent his own Toad, as the Mountebanks call it, 
could want a Zany to ſpread about his Praiſes, 1 
mong his hundred. thouſaud Admirers, without being 
at any trouble himſeif: but that Reaſon fail d. me, 
when I was inform! da that that was a Secret in the 
Art ef Writi which Mr. P. had fi nd out and 
gt fer wich det Shocels, wall chal fe was 
the greateſt mark of his Genius that could be found, 
as being the only new. thing he ever introduced 
into our Engliſh Poetry. His Verſes in Mr. y- 
cherley's Name were Originals in that Way, and 
why-might he not now as well write anonymouſy, 
as then borrow a Name, to complement | himſelf ? 


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For theſe Readons I am not quite ſo well fix'd ; 
in the Belief which your Preface demands; and | 
further becauſe I find you ſo naturally ſlide into 
ſome of the good Qualities of veur Pre nded 
Friend, that in you they look more like native 
Graces than borrowed Om enk For Inſtance, 
his Fond neſs for Fable, a Thin > ib defined, „ 
Which has no Matter of Fact 225 & s-Foyndarion : 5 
How do you ſhine in this beautiful way o Wri- 
ting, when you aflert that uo Man living is abuſed FT 
in the Dunciad, but ſuch as have printed and pub- 16 3 
lied mething apainſt the Writings and Character 
of MY//Pope? This is a Figure ſo much in his Stils ; 
And Manier, that I ſhould nerer heſitate to pro- 
— nounce jou and him the ſame Perſon, if 1 1 
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Senſe or Cunning, muſt think the Dunciad the Work  _ 
'of ſome Friend of his, who had more-Zeal than 
Diſcretion :_ For is it to be imagined that he could 
have ſo little Addreſs, as by making Mr. Theo- 
bald the Herò of ai Poem, to give him ſuch an 
Advantage as he has viſibly received by it? We 
may ſuppoſe a fatjrical Work of this kind runnit 
thro* the Hands of Mr. P—'s hundred thouſand Ad- 
mirers, f wifter than a piece of ſerious Criticiſm, 
can make its way, and conſequently occaſion ſome 
thouſands ' of Queſtions about the Provocation 
which Mr. Theobald'muſt have given to deſerve this 
lage; in anſwer to theſe, che Truth may and 
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And from euch Show riſe duſter than the laſt ; 

"Till raid from Booths to Theatres, to Court, ' rag 
Hler Seat imperial Dulneſs ſbal tranſport. r Al 
(Alteady Opera prepares f n 2752: ab Lf 
The ſure Fore-runner” of gentle Sway). 


WE conſiders the Infiouation which theſs la 


Verſes contain, that Harlequinades and Pautomimesſhall 
from Entertainments for t Rabble i in Booths, be« 


come the Diverſions, of a Court, in Theatres, in 
.« ſuch a manner as the Opera now is, muſt at che 


ſame, time think of ſome Power able to make 
them ſo; but what that Power is, the Poet leaves 
Aſteriſms to explain: And it is clear enough to 
whoever underſtands the Meaſure of the Verſe and 

compares it with the Context, that the Blanks are 
to be filled with Names, which of all mortal Names 
ought to be the moſt Sacred, and the moſt exempt 


from any Ridicule in Engliſh Poetry. This is an 
Opinion that I muſt inſiſt upon till che Poet clears 
himſelf by filling up the Blanks in this Place agree 


able to the ee, and 8 er fs: _ 
glance. 


As in this wage! to wake coe Paſlage eule 
mut be conſtrued into Royal- Scandal my” the e 
lator of Homer very wittily calls Slander againſt, 

Royaley:) So in another. place the Poet writes ſtark 
ſtaring Nonſenſe; for the ſake of a ſcurvy Reflec- 


| tion, which may appear more ambiguous. * | 


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"This, this is he foretold by antient Rhimes,. 
Th Aucusrus born to bring Saturnian Tae! 


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© There are ſeveral ſcandalous Hints of this Na- 
ture ſcatter'd thro the Poem, which I won't ex- 
bim more, [Theſe mentioned, I think are obvious: 


and the World, that Mr. P. did not write. the 
Promiſe before cite. 


and they have a better reaſon for doing ſo now 


muſt take the liberty of making an Obſervation or 


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The Name of Auguſtus has been generally uſed — {| 


than ever. I any Prophecy can be ſhewn, or any 
Alluſion to the Claflicks proved to juſtify the Ule . 
of this Word in this place, I will-allow it may 
have no Malignance in it; but for my part I. be- 
lieve none ſuch can be made appear: and I am of 
tended as an Abuſe of two Lines-in the Prologue 


to the Double Falſehood,: a Play ſer forth by Mr. 


plain, becauſe they may eſcape common Readers ; 
and I would not pleaſure the Author ſo far as to- 


'The uſe I make of them, is, to convince my ſelf 


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Well then, a Word or two with you Mr, Izcog: 
who, it ſeems, are the Author of this delicate 
Poem, and the Writer of its elegant Preface. I 
two, and perhaps asking a few Queſtions before 
we part, which, I hope, you be ſo good as not 
to take amifs. In the firſt Page of the Preface 
you ſuppoſe your Friend equal, in point of Cha- 
racter, to a; Miniſter, of State; if you had any 
hand in the Beggar's Opera, as it is to be ſuſpected 
you had, you may be juſtify'd in that Compariſon ; 
for certainly a Minifter cannot be much mew 


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1 by being compared to Mr. P. than by being 
Itken'd to a common Thief, or a Thief-taker, as 
was before done in the Dramatick Satire. Au# 
the Stateſman becauſe he's fo great, thinks his Trade at 
honeſt as mine. A little lower you obſerv'd, That 
if a known Scuundrel is touch'd upon, it becomes the 
Cauſe of Scribblers, &c. I know ſome People that 
want to be ſatisfy d, whether your ſcurritous Poem 
be not rather an Example drawn from that Rule, 
than an Exception to it. ee ee ins 
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Die Town, you ſay, ' has been perſecuted (one 
would rather imagine from what you ſaid before, 
- entertained) for theſe two Months paſt, with Adver- 
tiſementi, Letters, and Weekly Eſſays, not only againſt 
"the Wit and Writings, but the Character and Perſon 
f My. Pope. Thoſe Advertiſements, Cc. are all 
collected here for your Service; and to cure you 
of a miſtaken Notion that they were all written a? 
gainſt Mr. Pope; ſome of them, and I muſt needs 
allow, thoſe that pleaſed leaſt, were in his Favour: 
So that you are not, as you pretend, the firſt that 
appeared in his Defence; you were preceded in ic 
by other Scribblers as dull as your ſelf. His 
Friend the Doctor, whom you affect to forget, by 
way of Inſinuation that you are he, has born his 
part of the Satire; I confeſs, I thought not with- 
- out poetical Juſtice : For if he was not concerned 
in the. Writing, he was the Perſon that prompted 
and inſtigated him to the writing of the Profil 
And 1 own IT often hgh at his Sufferings, for 
they recalld to my mind theſe Verſes from one of 
Dry dens Prologues, upon the roaſting of a Pope, 
as the Dunciad very aptly expreſſes it. 


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© The Devil who brought him un the Shame, tate) 
Sits Cheek by Jowl, in black, to cheer his Heart ;( 
Like Thief and Parſon, in a Tyburn Cart. 


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But you take it il that the Character and Per- 
ſon of Mr. Pope are attacked. I confeſs I don't ap- 
prove of that way of waging Paper Wars; bur it 
ought to be inquired whether Mr, P. did not 
bring it upon himſelf, by being very particular in 
abuſing other Men's Characters and Perſons, both 
1 the Profun , and his other Miſcellanies. That 
Method may be juſtly taxed with want of Wit, 
but I think it behoves Mr. P. and you, ro ſhew 
that you can ſupport a Controverſy without ha- 
ving recourſe to Scurrilities of that kind; you had 
a fair Opportunity of doing ſo in your Dunciad, 
and if you had, you had perſuaded more Readers 
of the Juſtice of your Cauſe, than ever you are 
Iikely to do as it is: but that you have neglected, 
and your own Behaviour is ſuch, that your Mouths 
are eternally ſtopped, from exclaiming with rea- 
ſon, at the ill uſage given you by your Adver- - 
aries. When Mr. Theobald began this Diſpute, — 
he laid down a Method of handling it, which if it 4 
had been followed, had ſaved ſome Perſons ſeveral - 
Fits of the Head-ache ; not the leaſt indecent Re- 
flection, Word or Hint was offered to Mr. Pope 
through his whole Book. The only Crime com- 
mitted was, his Impudence in ſuppoſing that Gen- 
- tleman could be in the wrong in any thing. It 
_ deſerved ſevere Vengeance, to ſuggeſt that Mr, P. 
of Twickenham had leſs Infallibility than his Name- 
fake of Rome. Hinc illa lacryme ! Laſt Winter came 
but, in Anſwer to ſober Arguments, the collected 


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Spite and Malice of two whole Years, in Satires 
and Profunds.- I ſaid ſomewhere before that Mr. P. 
had writ in his Anger ; I beg his Pardon, for he 
- muſt be a very bad Man, if his Anger always con- 
* tinues till his Wit comes vur. 
I have one ſerious Obſervation to make, and 
then I have done with your Preface. Tou ſuppoſe 
your ſelf, as Author of the Dunciad, in peculjar 
Intimacy with Mr. P. and from thence boaſt a 
Knowledge of the moſt private Authors of all the ano—- 
nymous Pieces againſt him. If one may gueſs from 
your Satire in the Poem, neither you knew them 
all, nor could he inform you; for I can take upon 
me to ſay, that ſeveral, who have treated him as he 
deſerved in Print, have eſcap'd your Chaſtiſement, 
-as others have fallen under your Diſpleafure, who 
have never been guilty even of an intentional Abuſe 
upon him. I know alfo what has led him and you 
into ſuch Miſtakes ; he has had the Weaknels to 
converſe, in ſome degree of Intimacy, with Peo- 
ple whom he ought to deſpiſe, (ſo far, perhaps, he 
may be liken'd to a great Stateſman) only becauſe 
they acted for him in the Characters of Spies and 
Informers; and like true Lions, when they could 
not furniſh him with real Intelligence, were obliged 
to keep up his Opinion of their Diligence by 
Conjectures or Inventions. N 1 
And now, Sir, to conſider your Poem a little: 
Sure ſuch a ſcurrilous, obſcene, groſs Piece of 
Ribakdry, was never before palm'd upon the 
World for an Imitation of Virgil. The Cemo of 
Auſonius is chaſte to it, and the Burleſque of Scar» 
ron delicate. The Piece that it can ſhew moſt Re- 
ſemblance to, is, the Mac Fleckno of Dryden; but how 
far fuferior to its Original, the World may judge 
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upon taking a View of that excellent Performance. 


A Satire upon Dulneſt is a thing that has been uſed 
and allowed in all Ages, and Dryden has turned it 
very pleaſantly upon Shauwell, Who had provoked: 
him. Nothing -is*t6ibe! queſtioned but the Juſtice 
of the Satire; that is, Whether Shadwell had not 
as much Wir and Humour as ought to have pre- 
ſerved him from the Ridicule. But a Satire upon 
Povkriy was a thing unknown to the poetical 
World; they never 7. Wh the Crime of it, till this 
refin d Age. Neither the Mævius of Virgil, the 
Caſſius Severus of Horace, nor the Codrus of Juuenal 
tand repfoached with Poverty by thoſe Authors: 
Yet it is not unlikely that a dull Poet ſhould have 
been poor then, fince we find in the Writings of 
the Antients, particulariy the ſeventh Satire of Ju- 
ꝛenal, that ſome good Poets were ſo; but in what 
manner does that excellent Saririſt touch upon their 
Ci raumſtances? Not as a Reproach to themſelves, 
bur as an indelible, Scandal, and eternal Satire, 
upan their Patrons, the NVolleſſe of that Age, who 
ſuffer g it. For the ſame reaſon, we ſee Dryden 
in he A Hleckno carefully avoiding ſuch Reflec- 
tions, tho it is not-improbable. but the ſecret Hi- 
ſtory either of Fleckno or Shadwel might have fur- 
niſi d him with occaſions for uſing them. Or how 


ble of the Durfeys and Settles of his days, that none 
of his Jokes might be loſt? But he acted more like 
a great Poet, and a Man of Wit and Breeding; 
Dulneſs was the Object of his Reſentment, and 
Shadwell, his only Co- temporary, that ſeem'd to 
him ineorrigible; for he mentions no others, un- 


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in his Temper, he mnſt have fancy'd they did not 
all deſerve that from him. In how different a man- 


ner does the Author of the Dunciad proceed Hike 


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eaſy had it been to have fill'd his Poem with a Rab- 


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Almanzor he knocks down Friends and Foes, the 


Stranger and the Acquaintance fare alike in his 
Poem; but he chiefly dwells upon a Cixcumſtance 
which nothing but Pride and Want of Oonceit 
could have allowed him to mention. Tbe Poverty 
of a Poet is proverbial. and trite, the Cloyyn and 
the Courtier uſe it alike; and it is ſo worn, that it 
is impoſſible for Paraphraſe or. Gircumlocution to 
make any Jeſt out of it, that has even the Air of 
Novelty: Nor can it vex a Writer, it is ſo fre- 
quently in his Ears. Jet this, Sir, have you vho- 
fen to expatiate upon in the Daneiad; a few in- 
ſtances will ſerve to convince the World of your 
Peverty of Invention. . „„ 2 


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Theſe Verfes may paſs among ſuch as overfapk 
the Prophaneneſs of them; but dear Sir don't they 
reſemble a little too nearly the Traveſty of the 
frit Pſalm? | 3:14; 80 


She eye'd the Bard where Supperleſs he fate, aac 
Mr. Theobald would give me no Thanks Tar aste 
ring the World that he ſits as ſeldom Supperleſs as 


the Author of this curious Line: But I am ſuxe if 
any Thing be due to Merit, he deſerves a better 


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the Underſtandings of the Perſons deſcribed, or 
why a Man ſhoulg'be a Dune, barely beceuſe/be 
is not handſome. I am ſure, Sir, you! — — 
juſt cauſe of Complaint, if by theſe Proceedings 

a ſome of thoſe Men PROM. your Friend's Back. & 


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| Sir, I humbly take my leave, recommending this 
ia 1 Collection to your Patronage. I won't warrant 


ul them all to be to your liking, but can fay that 
415 even the worſt was meant well: They are the 
1:18 Works of ſundry Hands, and ſome of their Au- 
to thors can plead the common Excuſe of being dull 
n- by Deſign. Few have intended them as laſting Mo- 
e- numents of their Reſentment, but all are ſatisſied 
It in the viſible Proofs of their giving a preſent Smart, 


074 without being diſpleaſed at the Thoughts of their 
leaving no Scar behind. The Publick has been pretty 
favourable to moſt of them in their firft Publica- 


k , 

— tion, but I think their general Character is better 
deſcribed in the well known Lines of Martial : 

— FSunt Bona, ſunt quædam mediocria, p ſunt mala plura, , 

25 Que legis hie, aliter non fir, Avite, Liber 

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94 6 ; I am, S I R, « : | 

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COLLECTION 


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Verſes Eſſays, r. 


From the Britiſh: Journal, Nov. 25. 1727. 


T the AUTHOR. 


* 1 * was not till lately that 1 met 13 
WER with two Volumes 4 Miſcellanies 
das they are call'd) in Proſe and 
Fa Verſe ; tho' I find by Enquiry that 

chey have been ſome Months pub- 
— liſhed. When I looked them over, 
— ound a much the greateſt part of them had 
been already printed in one Volume, Ottavo, and 


that all the reſt were either very common in ſingle 
Pamphlets, or in old Collechions, and compared all 
* with the Greatneſs of the Price thoſe Books 


1 | bore; 


"01 4 
* — 

x " 4 of 
« 4 * 


1 Is 


& > a7 oo 
bore, I began to fan y that it was ſome'Bookſel- 
ler's Fraud upon the Public ick, and indeed-was not 
a little ſuſpicious of my old Friend in the Strand: 


TY ſtrangely ſurprized to find it ſign d with the great 
17 + Nos of 7. Suff and A. Pine The latter of theſe 
1 Gentlemen, I had heard, had been often concerned 
— in ſuch kind of Jobbs, and hired out his Name to 
1 ſtand Centinel before the Inventions of Bookſellers 3 
#4 but the former, I had always obſerved, was very 
F 8 cautious of prefixing his Name even to ſuch of his 
423-1 own Works as were publiſhed by himſelf: 'Theres 
fore having a Curioſity to know what could prompt 
him to join the other in ſo reputable a Piece of Jour- 
ney- wor, I read over the Preface ; upon which I 
muſt rake the Liberty to.make the following A- 
nimadverſions. . : 3 
The firſt Thing we meet with here (and indeed 
half the Work is taken up with it) is a Page or 
two of ſevere Satire upon Bookſellers, particularly 
one Edmund Curl}, I won't enter into the Occaſion 
or the State of the Controverſy, or the Strength of 
theſe Gentlemens Raillery and Reaſoning; but is 
it not truly pleaſant to ſee two of the greateſt Ge- 
nins's of our Age fet their Fits to a paltry Book- 
{eller ? | 1 1 


2 g * * er 
e 


T 


Egregiam vero laudem, & ſpelia ampla refertis,_.. .. 
4 « 0 a I*6 & «4-4 
Dua, dolo Divim, ſi Famina victa, duorum, ft,” © 
. / | 15 * , "4 f 8 

Says Virgil s Juno upon a ſimilar Occaſion ; wi 
T think, with reſpect to the TranſaQtion befi 
us, may be thus tranſlated-: e 


Tour Triumphs, 0 ye Bards, proclaim, and all your 


Flags unfurl, | 
| Fw Dobtor Swift and Mr, Pope have conquer'd 


; 
; 
I 4 
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\3 I But when I caſt my Eye over the Preface, I was 


| +63) T 
Hencefbrward let no little Under · Wits diſdain to 
write agaiuſt Curll, if he provokes them, (as I haye 


knew ſeveral give themſelves ſuch Airs) ſince the 


two Leaders of the Muſes Bands have put their 
Names to a Libel againſt him. Rejoice therefore, 
O Edmund Curll, and let thy Gladneſs know no 


End, ſince thou haſt had the Honour to be ſatirized 
by the ſame Pens, which have been employed in 


lampooning the Duke of MARLBOROUGH 


and Mr. 4D DISO N. 


In the next place, ſome Adverſaries, which the 
Prefacers formerly had, fell a- new under their 


Reſentment. They talk of having received the 


greateſt Proyocations, and triumph in the Fall of 
their Antagoniſts, whoſe Works are now forgotten. 
Whoever theſe Adverſaries were, tis my Opinion 
they remember their Works as well as our Authors 
can pretend to forget them; and if they had known 
or practiſed the little Arts of Authorſhip, the 


World might be brought to recollect them alſo. 
It is an eaſy Matter to keep the dulleſt Stuff alive 
by the Art of multiplying Impreſſions, which con- 


ſiſts only in the Variation of Types, Title-Page, 
Size and Paper. Mr. Gurl is ſo great a Maſter of 


this, that I don't wonder at his falling under the 


pe * 


Monopoly of it. „„ 
But while theſe Gentlemen are profeſſing all 
the Candor imaginable in page 9. the natural 


Reſentment of ſuch People as intended to make a 


Acrimony of their Tempers appears in this, that 
they cannot conelude the Paragraph, without by 
one Stroke abuſing two great Characters; the one 


a Man of Wit, Mr. Congreve, whom they can 


| have no reaſon to be angry with, except that he 
excels them; the other a Man of Quality, a Se- 
_ cretary of State, whom I won't preſume to name, 


from whoſe excellent Character I cannot conceive 
any reaſon for their Malice. 
ö „ In 


| | | 4) : | 11 
In page 13. and other places of the Freſac, 
theſe Niiteellanies are call'd by the Authors, not 
Works or Labours, but Diverſions and Amuſements. 
If I miſtake not, the greateſt part of them are po- 
I ʒttical inflammatory Pamphlets. Is it for a Divine 
or a Chriſtian, to treat ſuch Matters ſo lightly? 
Is not this (like the Man in the Proverbs,);\to ſcat- 
ter Firebauds, Arrows and Death, and cry, - © Am 
** not in Sport? ” nt l 


15 > . A 


If any Thing can be more impudent than this, 
it is the Aſſertion in the next Paragraph, that all 
theſe, Writings are innocent, & c. The firſt Pamphlet 


in the Book was profeſſedly written to divert the 


Juſtice of the Nation from falling 7. — ſome great 
Men, who were impeach'd by the Houſe. of Com- 
mons in the laſt Year of King W/ILLIA M's Reign. 


Ik the Deſign of it had been to ſhew their Inno- 
cence, I could readily. grant the Affirmation of 


theſe Authors; but it is palpably to charge the 
Repreſentatives of the Nation with Folly and In- 


' Juſtice, to prove that ſach Proceedings would in 
the End be the Ruin of our Conſtitution, and that 


the Liberty of the Commons was a Way to intro. 
duce Tyranny, and deſtructive of the Rights of 
the People. But Opinions which are only; Amuſe- 


ments, may be eaſily ſhifted ; therefore Jobn Ball 


is written: And is not this an innocent Pamphlet? 
Yes truly, for it only put the Nation into as great 


a Ferment as Dr. Sacheverel's Sermon. Gentlemen- 


% 


| Prefacers, the Frogs in the Fable will tell you, that 
this may be Sport to you, but it is Death to us. 


In p. 14. it is ſaid of thoſe Writings, that 


* they are Ours.” Whoſe in the Name of God? 
are they all the Doctor's and all the Squire's? for 
there is no | 


Tother's thro? the whole Books. But it ſeems they 
are ſuch good Friends, that they are ſarisfy'd 
all the Plaine as well as Praiſe of each 

1 other's 


to ſhare all 


2 


rk to diſtinguiſh one Author's from 


her's' 


ons; fit 


and ſece 
rerity, 
Valeneſſe 
Imuſem 
thought 
We : 
orld 
F* that 
Zite up 
' 10d 5 
has bar 
s there 
* in v 
hen 4 
Poiſon 
miners. 
Bat 
Page, | 
to fath 
above: 
it does 
lings; 
10 well 
thers, 
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ridicul. 
mind o 
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very m 
Romani 
But, 
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O tread 
5 ICE 
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ay ſerve for both, which is ſome trouble ſaved ; 


rerity; when they pretend to call them Trios and 
dleneſſes : for whatever a Man may do by his own 


* 


thought the Follies of another. 


orld © ought in Juſtice to believe they are all 
that are Ours.” How can this be? This is a 


riod of the Preface, we have reaſon to believe 
has bargain'd for a third Volume. A third Volume 
s there promiſed ; and in p. 15. all the Papers 
in which we have had caſually any Share.“ 
Then may the World expect to ſee ſome of the 
Poiſon ſo plenti fully fcatter d about in the Exa- 
miners — More innocent Amuſements ! 

But to crown all Abſurdities, in the laſt quoted 
Page, two other Gentlemen are introduced to help 
to father thoſe Writings, in the ſame manner as 
above: I won't name” thoſe Gentlemen, becauſe 
it does not appear to me, that they own the Bant- 
lings; but the Devil's in it if ever Children were 


tur d Author that ſhall be nameleſs, is not half fo 
ridicalous. This Number of Fathers puts me in 
mind of a Roman Strumpet, who being asked who 
was the Father of a Child ſhe went with, anſwer'd 


\OManus, | oy OSS» 

But, enough of this. If it be asked what Pro- 
'ocations I have received, that I ſhould undertake 
o treat two ſuch Men fo very freely, I can give 
good an Account as they do, becauſe I give it 


* Levity 


ber's Works, I am glad of this forewo Re? 
ons; firſt, becauſe whatever I have ſaid of either 
and ſecondly; becauſe it is a Proof of their Inſin- 


UVnuſements, he would never father what he really 
We are told in the ſame Paragraph, that the 


ite upon the Bookſeller, who, from the firſt Pe- 


ſo well father d. Dryden's Multiplicity of Godfa- 
thers, with which he is reproached by a good-na- | 


very merrily, and perhaps truly, Senatus, Populuſq; £ 


ntneir wn Words, P. 19. Some Sollies of 


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(6s) 
2 Lene ought to be imputed to Youth, (ſuppoſed 
* in Charity; as it was in truth, to be the Time in 
% which we. wrote them; ) Others to the Gajety 
« of our Minds at certain JunRures, common to 
4 all Men. To which I will only add, that it is 
not unlikely, 27 the Time I have arrived to either 
of their Ages, I ſhall rent wy clus _—_ 1 —_ 
lance as * as u * FI p 


lan, 51. 


Mean, 8c: - 


EET eee 
From the Daily Journal. March 18. 1 728. 


To the Anthor. 
SIR, 


I] PON reading the Third Volume 43 


eee, I found five. Lines which I 
thought excellent, and happening to praiſe them 
afterwards in a mixt Company, a Gentleman pre- 
ſent, immediately ee a modern Comedy, 

publiſh'd laſt Year, where were the ſame Verſes, 
almoſt to a Tittle. I was a good deal out of 
Countenance to find that I had been ſo eloquent 
in praiſe of a Felony, and not a little in pam leſt 


I my ſelf ſhould be underſtood to be an Accomplice. 


The Lines are theſe ; the Subject, a Coquette. 


A Touth of Frolicks, an Old Age of card, 
Fair to no Purpoſe, artful to no End; 

Dung without Lovers ; old without a Friend. 

A Fop, their Paſſion; but their Pri ide, a Sot; 

Ave, ridiculous ; and dead, forgot! A 
N ut 


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yy 
the fave Gentleman, purſuing his T 


( 


But my Confuſion was vaſtly a — ted, when 
ed me to the Diſcourſe at the Head of the 3d Vo- 
lume, where the Author of theſe admirable Lines 
is ingeniouſly liken d to a Frog in Poetry One that 
can neither walk nor fly, but can leap and bound to Ad- 
miration ; that lives generally in the Bottom of a Ditch, 
and makes a great noiſe whenever he thruſts his Head 


above Mater; and is placed in this Clafs between. 


Mr. Edward Ward and Mr. Thomas Durfey. 1 3 1 
If every Man who is, with equal Dulneſs, a- 


bus d in that 7 71 had contributed an Pro- 


portion to the Miſcellany, inſtead of its being re- 
ſented as a Fraud on the Publick, it might 

prov d an agr eeable Ammſement. | But theſe Gen- 
tlemen are reſolved to be Originals in ſome Rind 
or other, and are undoubtedly the firſt Plagiaries 
that pretended to, make a Reputation, by ſtealing 
from a Man's Works, in his own-Life-time, and 


out of a publick Print. In their manner of treating 
him, they reſemble our ordinary Foot- pads, who 
never rifle a Man without abuſing him; as tho 


they meant to make out their Title to his Money, 
by proving to him, that he was not worthy of it. 
133 9 ri VS 1440110 5 S eln 


1-am, SIR, 
118 moſt Humble Sergiant. 


Philo-Mavn!. 


4 


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riumph, turns 


3 He rom. + the „Whitehall Evening-Pol. 
| March 27.5 1728. eee 


5 An r N 0 * A NM. 


EN. Wrsfrv, by his rhiming N 4. 
Brought many Foes upon his 8 
Long two dread Champions Weight 0 be, 
Mt and 'Mokxice BRZA TEE Z 
When now, a Caſe moſt cruel hard! 
Comes to their Aid the Twickenham Bard, 
And at his Hand, fell Sight to meet! 
A Man in Black, With cloven E 
What Murthers hatch'd ! what Plots between 5 
The Marmozette and dingy Dean! 8 8 
But Courage, LEx, all true Hearts hope 
| Thoult ſcour the Devil and the Pops, 


#099909009020999000005Þ, 


From the London Evening ol March "pp 
1 1728.1 


75 the Author, 


? 
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Fa 

FF 

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LY 


* 


=P Ih 


O Bſerving your Paper to be a in vogue 
with People of a polite Taſte, I deſire you 


inſert the following Letter, WI will —__ your 
conſtant Reader. 


St. James's Coffee-bouſs, 


March 20. 


# 'F 


T. 


Sir, that the whole Piece, intitled, 


8 4 Fon 
| 5 * un 1 i 14 
* 4 AH n. — = s. #4 *.- 4 4 2 


1K. . 


A VtN G in yours of March 18, inform d 
the. Publick of a flagrant Piece of Plagiary 


in the laſt Volume of Pope and Swiſt s Miſcellanies; 


I defire you. will add a much more conſiderable one 


in wrong of the ſame ingenious Gentleman. I ſee 
no Reaſon why you ſhould ſuppreſs the Name of 
Mr. JÞ—— M— S—, to whom this Inj jury 


has been done; ox not cite the Comedy of the 
Rival Modes, where thoſe five excellent Verſes are 
to be found: But I muſt now further acquaint you, 


Pariſh *Clerk, in the Second Volume of 


lection, has to my knowledge above two Years 
ago been own'd by Mr. in ſeveral Com- 
panies. And am certainly inform'd that another 
: 2 Piece, called, An Hiſtorico-Phyfical At- 


aun of the South Sea, which he has yet in his 


I lags! would (if theſe” Authors could any way 
have Tracurd it from him) have as imfallibſ been 
publi as their * in the faid Collection. 


I doubt not many other impudent Fuugieries of 


this nature may, and will yet be diſcovered, and 
I earneſtly with to ſee theſe Jackdaws fripp'd of 

all their borrow'd Plumes ; 'not ſo much really as 
"a Philomauri, or —— but as What 1 ſub- 
ſcribe my fat | 

It may be ſome Pro of this, when I confeſs, 5 

that the Letter M (among the Initials in their Dif- 


a Lover of Truth. 


courſe of the Profound) does not ſeem to me, as 


it did to him, ro ſtand for Sythe, unleſs an & were 
added; and that when they ſtyled Tom Durfey 
Gentleman, they ſhould ſtyle Mr. Smythe Eſquire, 
dF way of Eminence as an Author, ſeems to me 


C e 


48) 
but a vain Suppoſition. I am, as you ſee, without 
Reſpe& of erſons, but with real NN, 
Sir, 
a Your Humble Servant, 
Pai. 
—— rior he et 


From 5 London Evening-Polt March 2 6 a 


ad 


0 the . 1 
9 ü 
le 


SI R, 


* OUR inſerting. mine 3 the PTL laſt paſt 
encourages me to give you this farther Trou- 
ble: I then told you I could not perſuade my ſelf 
with Philo-Mauri (as that exact Latiniſt ſtiles him- 
ſelf, that in the: 28th Page of the Treatiſe, of the 
Profund the ſingle Letter M. ſtood for Mr. Moore 
Smythe : But I am now fully confirm'd to, the con- 


trary, having received from a very intellige nt Fer- 


ſon a Key to that whole Line of Initials, which it 


may be worth while to communicate. 


E. W. J. M. Eſq; T. D. Gent. E. 2 77. 


Welſted, J. 2 N 2 Michel, Eſquires, 7. Ti 
D. Durfey, ntlemen. 

One of theſe ingenious 2 ev Mr. Welſed, 
has thought fit to own his, Acceptance of, the Cha- 
rafter in the, ¶pitehall Evening-Poſt of Thurſday 


laſt ; and it is plain that each Letter means a dif- 


ferent Surname by the full Stops betwixt each; 
whereas when they imply both Chriftian and Sur- 


names, they have no ſuch full Stop ; as in page 26. . 


LT. WP. Mr. Lewis Tibbald, and Mr. Milian 
| Fatt ſon. 


The 


The truth is, I fear Philo-Mauri was acted by 
the Spirit of Reſentment, ſince I find ſoon after 
the Letters P. M. which notwithſtanding, the Stop 
between, may ſtand for two ſuch joint Names as 
Philo'and Maurus; and this is alſo a further Sign, 
that the Authors would not have put J. M. only, 
but J. M. S. for James Moore Smythe, Eſq; I am, 
! N I EF WA ent N F 


| Yaur Obliged Servant, 


rob  BPhilalethes, | 
EEE == === T0888 
x From the Daily Journal, March 29. 1728. | 
if vi $34 065! To the Author. | 
x Al aro dw e tht 20 
re OOKING over the Diſcourſe prefix d to 
= the Third Volume of Miſcrllanies lately pub- 
r lin d, I obſerv'd it to conclude: with an ironical” 


it Project for the Advancement of the Stage: After 
; the ingenious Authors have, with a good deal of 
Fe labour d Dulneſs, deſcribed a ridiculous Society, 
45 govern'd by a Board of fix ſuper- annuated Criticks, 
who are to meet in a Privileged Place, for fear of 
a, Arreſts; who are to be provided at the Publik Ex- 
a- pence, with Diet-Drink, Spitting · Pots, aud all other 
ay Neceſſaries of Life: In order to be very ſmart at 
the End, they throw in the following Paragraph. 
\F © If ſome of the Articles may at firſt View Ren | 
1 " liable to Objections, particularly thoſe that give 
$ - ©* ſo vaſt a Power to the Guncil of Six, (which is 
m indeed larger than any intruſted to the great 
| <= Officers of the * This may be rt” 
1 1 2 | y 


4 


< by 8 thoſe Six Perſons of his Mejefty's. 5 
* Privy Council, and obliging them to pals every 
* thing of Moment previouſh, at that moſt Ho- 


Pork IEA ne 


What ſhould be the Thoughts of the Publick | 
upon this occaſion, I won't pretend to dictate; 
but I remember Homer, whoſe Works one of 


theſe Gentlemen has undertaken to do into Engliſh 
when he deſcribes Therfites, (a Man much inclined 


to rail at all, but moſt at his Betters) ſcurrilouſly 


reflecting on the Wiſdom of the Grecian - Councils, 
he at the ſame time thinks it not beneath the Gra- 


vity of Ulyſſes to reprehend his Inſolence. Uly/ſes, 


the greateſt Stateſman among the Greeks, riſes with 
. at his n ves him immediate 
Chaſtiſement, and threatens, L 

ſuch Liberties, | 


To ſend him ſcourg'd and howling thro” the Fleet, 


as Mr. Pope has, with great Propriety and Hap- 


pineſs, expreſs d it. 


It muſt be own d indeed, that Therfues deſerved a 
this Treatment, if the Picture of him in the Niad 
be juſt; no Puniſhment. was too ſcandalous or ſe- 
vere for him: But J hope there is no ſuch Monſter 
now living, as Mr. — has n in the follow: 


ing Lines, 


 Awdbym Shows) by 10 Reſßelt ere. 
In Scandal buſy, in Reproaches bold. 1 
Miib witty Malice, ſtudious to defame em 
Scoru all his Foy, and Laughter all his Aim, 

But chief be glery d with licentious Stile, 

Jo laſb the Great, and Monarchs to ike. 
His Figure ſuch as might his Soul . 
One He. was blinking, aud one 1 A wat lame : 


he takes * moro 


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of 


lis 


ir Mountgin Stoulders 1 his Breaſt o 2 
_ Thin Hair. beſtrew'd his long miſ-ſhapen Head: 
_ Spleen to Mankind his envious Heart poſſeſt, 

And much he hated * but moſt the Beſt. 


4 


Tan Murr, &c. 


| Ny 


From Miſt's Weekly Journal, March * 
1728. 2 5 91 


1 


An Ef on the ARTS of 2 Poct's Sinks 
in Reputation; 5 a Supplement to 
0 . 


"he Art of of He in 


A Tibi erunt 1 Hy | 
Failis Dejenſ l. ur bak 


etry. 


— . 
HFutt ring his Penuons vain, bun he drops 
Ten ae Fathoms wien Milt. 


T AEK E it to be a mighty Symptom of Bene- 

volence in my. Temper, that if any Scheme be 
ſtarted tending to the Good of my Countrymen, I 
find an Aptitude in my ſelf to ſupply; and help it 
out, by any neceſſary Improvement. It is with 
this laudable View I ſuffer my ſelf to read all mo- 
dern Productions: And as I have lately met with 
a Treatiſe, which promiſes to be of ſingular Uſe 


I 


and Inſtruction, Lem Habouc, or, Concerning the 
Art of Sinking in Poetry ; it immediately occur d to 
me, That this Piece was defe&ive. in one point; 


which I flatter'd my ſelf I might ſupply, to wit, in 
not pointing out the Art of a Tor: $ * in K* 


Butation. | | 8 Y, 


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FOR 


A Supplement of this Sort (and 1 have endea- 


vour d to make it more properly an Appendix; by 
all along copying the Stile; ) ſeem'd eſſential to a 
Traci ſo calculated for Inſtruction. For as all the 


miſtaken Writers in the Sublime have endeavour d 


to riſe in Reputation, their well-judging Rivals, 
iſciples in the Profund, muſt labour to fiuł in 


the | 
it 9 Nor can this ever take place in 
general Practice, but by firſt being reduced into an 
2 a Scheme as may facilitate 


Art; and * by propofing 
this great End. I will venture therefore to lay 
down ſuch a Set of Rules, as, I hope, may efta- 
bliſh a good tolerable Sinking Fund. Ds 
Now the firſt thing to be conſider d by a Lou- 
land Proficient, is, that as Reputation is twofold, 
moral and poetical ; to avoid all Confuſion and Im- 
pediment, let him deeply ſtick to the latter, and 
ſuffer the moral to be quite abſorb'd in the poetical. 
And as © POETRY is a natural or morbid Se- 
cretion from the Brain, * poetical Evacuations muſt be 


neceſſary: © from whence it follows, that a Suppreſſion - 
of the very worſt Poetry would be of dangerous Conſe- 


quence,” (Forgive me, for being obliged to talk 


like an Apothecary upon this Subject.) Let him 
therefore frequently practiſe * a' Diſcharge | of the 


peccant Humour in exceeding purulem Metre. And 


that the Depth of his Genius, like that of an Jriſh 
Bog, may make his Writings ſo unſound, that hone, 


but who are native to his Qualities, may be able 
to — over the ſame Ground with him; it will 
be convenient, at the moſt favourable Opportuni- 
ries, and as the particular Seam, and Vapours of 
Conſtitution are moſt predominant, that he throw 


out frequent Compoſitions in the three different 


| Stiles of the Vituperative, the Prurient, and the A 


IN rheiftical. 


1 Art of Sinking, Sc. p. 1. . . wn” 1 
. p. 13. * id. f Ibid 2 ts 


” Cay N 
tbeiſtical. For the Man, who is violently fond of 


Rule with him zo 


"Again, as the great Gedie of Siabing in Reputg» 


" (which affords a Solution, why common Senſe hath been 

ally deſpiſed by the greateſt modern Authors ) his 
6 Maar i Dedication to the Rape of —=_ 
the Lock | |» Ars of Sinking, &c. p. 6. " RES 
R in to, uA ¶ Sinking, &c. p.11. 4 


#4 


— ———— 2 nnd tn. rn EE SOIT ——— 
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„ 
Eye ought to be turn'd towards .* the lucrative. 
parts Poetry; and Gain, or Profit, muſt ſtill be ro- 
member d to be the principal End of his Art, and the 
whole End of ſuch Writers. Whenever, therefore, 
he has the good Luck to ſtart his Game, let him 
P be ſure to run it down, and, which is more won 
derful, afcerwards purſue it as far As it can o. 


Now as Gain, or Profit, is to be the main Ob- 

. je of his Studies, it might be no bad Expedient, 
if he ſhould undertake a Book in his u Name by 
Subſcription, and get a great part of it done by Af. 
fiftants The' I ſhould nor adviſe this Experiment 


too often, left any of the extraneous Parts ſhould 
unhappily aſcend to the Sublime, and retard the De- 


£ clenfion of the whole Ma. 1 
"BY Nor would it at all impede his Progreſs in Sink- 

ing, tho he ſhould take it into his Head to deſcend 1 
into Homer, (let the World wonder, as it will, * how | 

the Devil he got there ; ) and pretend to do him inta . 

* Engliſh; ſo his Verſion denote his Neglect of the 1 

Manner how. As for Example; when he meets | 7 7 
with oc u T Ahn, it will be well that he p 
ſhould remember, there is mala in Latin as well as v7 
udd in Greek ; and that the Sameneſs in the Sound | 1 
ought to produce a Sameneſs in the Senſe; and oft 
therefore by a happy Jumble of Ideas, let him ren- 75 
der it, Long exercis'd in Woes, tho it really ſignifies, Jou 
One who was a great Wanderer. And to make the him 
Blundef the more conſpicuous, let him throw in a In 4 
Note to ſhew it the Intention of his Heart; and and 
then fall upon poor Horace for not having made the If tl 
ſame Blunder he has done; and then redouble his pect 
Blunder, and ſhew that Horace has in another place oft! 
made the ſame Blunder, by rendering it, in his Senſe, hit 
aſpera multa pertulit. 3 N | tian 
, © Id. p. 11, 12, 77, 85. ® Id. p. 4. * Miſcellanies, t 4 
3 Val. p. 130, r Art of _— p. 65. s See the * Id. 
Beginning of the firſt Book of the Odyſſe y. - v 1d. | 


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yy "of 5 "Pay "oh — | ( 17 ) 3 | | 3 4 _ 
But leſt it mould be thought eaſier for a Man 
to ſtep out of his Depth in Greek than in Latin, or 
his, Mother- Tongue ; let him be ſure, at all Times, 
not to ſtand difidently, upon the Senſe of any Po ſ- 
ſage, but to wreſt-Conftruttions for the ſake of a 
Sneer, and force to his own Purpoſes the Thoughts 
of others, ©, Nor will it be a bad Art ſo to diſguiſe 
what he quotes from others, that he may'be fairly 
ſaid “ 70 bury their Gold in his own Dunghill, 
The poor Dabblers in the Sublime havE been 
mark d out for a paltry Affectation of thinking pro- 
perly, and expreſſing in ſuch a Manner, as has ex- 
cited their Succeſſors to emulate them; but it 
would ill become a profund Writer to be ſo preciſe 
and. ſervile. Let him rather fetch up Conceptions and 
Phraſes from his own inimitable Abyſs : Let his Ex- 
eſſions depart from known Idiom, and common 
nderſtanding, fo that he may talk of— * referring 
_ exaftly. the Mold ;——of I apphing his whole Time 
h 1252 and that, nothing is 77 equal Conſequence, .— 
In ſhort, Jer his Happineſs be to invert the Order 
of Nature; and not to\, imagine that particular 
"Words muſt be conlidad; to explain particular 
'Things and Ideas. In the Pegetable World, let him 
eſteem Needs beyond Flowers, and therefore call“ 
Flowers the loweſt of Vegetables : In Dramatics, let 
him call the Intermedes of a Play, its Interludes : 
In Painting, a © Toad or a Smal - Pox, Still Life; 
and in Mufick, the“ Stops of an Organ, its Regiſters. 
If the People of a bad Caſt ſhould pretend to ſuſ- 
pect a Glimmering of Error in this, and gently ex- 
poſtulate the Doubt with him; let him, above all 
Things, keep ſtrictly to the Reverſe of this Teren- 
tian Admonition, I ne erret, moneo; & deſinat la- 
cefſere : That is, let him continue to blunder on, and 


ä Art of Sinking, &c. p. 11. ld. p. 41. d. p. 3. 

* Id. p. 44. Id. p. 13: „ I. p. ,  Þ. 63 

T 14. p. 90. 14 p23 * I. pr 15s h 
ROY D 


grow 


grow ſcurrilous. For I had almoſt forgot to hint, 
that à Profeſſor of the Profund muſt have his © Rhe- 
ftorital Cheſt of Drawers ; in which as there muſt be 
Loci, or Places, for other Materials, ſo it muſt have 
a large vituperative Partition. „ 
Nor will it be of bad Effect to his Snking Cha- 
racter, that he ſnould puſn upon the World three 
neu Miſcellany Volumes of old and ſecond-hand 
Wares. For this will furniſh ſuch an Opportunity 
of indulging a pretty lurking Spleen, that he may 
make as good a Figure as Don Quixote cutting 
and flaſhing at the whole Community of Puppets, 
from the Emperor down to the meaneſt of his Life- 
Guard. 4 | 1 
| And IT would advife him, in the tendereſt Re- 
gard to his good Name, that, when he is in high 
\ Pleaſure with himſelf, and has a hearty Contempt 
for all his Fellow-Writers, he ſhould, in Pride of 
Heart, and f wrapt round and ſanctiſied with his own 
Circumſtances, throw out a ſarcaſtical Good Nature 
and Compaſſion, and wiſh ® one Poet a Dinner, and 
another out of Debt. For this will give a favourable $2 
Impreſſion of his meaning well inwardly. And, in : 
theſe Fits of Altitude, lie the Arch-Fiend in Mil- 
ton's Pandemonium (tho' he fhould not be quite ſo 
tall in his ovin Stature ;) let him do what he can to 
fell, and dilate, and extend himſelf in Thought ; 
and, putting in his Pocket the“ caſting Weight that 
Pride adds to Emptineſs, take two or three Handfuts 
of Scurrility out of his vituperative Partition, and 
fall to ſcattering odd Names all round him; and 
* the better to give the Pictures of thoſe he deſpifes 
to the Reader, now by merry Metaphor turn them 
into Fiſh, Fleſh, and Fowl; as“ fing Fiſhes, Swal- 
tows, Oftriages, Parrots, Didappers, Porpoiſes, Frogs, 
: 129 e Belt 


d. p. 74 *f Miſcellanits, 3d Vol. p. 130 1 bh of 
p. 129. [6,p.131. i Artof Sinking, &c. p. 26. i. 13 


E 
Eels and Tortoiſet; and then again into Reptiles 
and inanimate Trifles, as '. Grubs, Harms, Hairs, 
Straus and Dirt; and then call them, HWord-catchers, 
Routers of Triplets, Reſtorers of ed, Pidlers, Thing s, 


Creatures, Wretches, Ribalds or Scoundrels, 


I hope, this. Snopſis contains ſuch Rudiments for 
eſtabliſhing an Art of ſinking in poetical Reputation, 
that whoever is. happy enough to put them faith- 
fully into Practice, may be as certain of finding 
when, and how far, he ſhall ſucceed, as the Town 


may learn certainly when and how far they ought to be 


pleaſed at any Theatrical Entertainment, from the 
whole Audience hiſſing. : 

If any body can communicate more Rules of 
the like Importance, the Service of the Publick de- 


mands them. Ss own part, I have attempted 
tr 


ro Sketch a Plan from the known Example and 


Precedent of an eminent Profeſſor, * to my beſt Judg- 


ment, with more Labour than 1 enpect Thauks, and 
without any Indulgence to my private Senſe or Onjecture. 


A e eee ee ee ee ee ess 


Form the Daily Journal, April 3. 1728. 


To the Author. 


| S L R, I 4 | 
Have by Accident ſeen in an obſcure Paper, 
1 ſomething intended as a Vindication of a cer- 
tain Paſſage in a Miſcellany, lately publiſhed by 
Pope and Company, which I could wiſh were made 


more publick, by being transferred into yours; 


for I can ſee no Reaſon why the Company ſhould 


1 Mi cellanies, 3d Vol. p. 130, Sc. m IA. ibid. 1 Ar 
of Shnking, p. 9. Pref. io Shakeſpeare in 30. 
4 2 | 


þ 


4 * 


Fan, 


be more aſham'd. of their Defence, than they were with 
r „ thro 
| Theſe Gentlemen attempt to perſuade us, that whe 
_ + ſometimes a Parcel of Letters together, are to be ed F 
received as th Initial ones of Sur-Names only; | ACCic 
then again the firſt Letter is to be conſtrued the an 4 
Initial one of the Chriſtian Name, and the ſecond, Mer 
of the Sur- Name; by the Uſe of which they may the 
either make their Court to their Bookſeller, by a the 
new Edition, or level their Satire at any freſh Au- tlem 
thor, who ſhall dare to offend them. Now, Sir, wha 
it happens to be exactly the ſame thing to me, whe- Tov 
ther A. P. ſignifies A. Pope, or A. Philips, either in We 
regard to the ſaid Letters, or their Author's Fame, Phil 
mm. TT . be 3 
I ſhall therefore wave this and other little Sub- ſubi 
tleties, not unworthy the Reporters of the Caſe of 
Straahng and Stiles, and obſerve, that the Piece 5 


which the Company ſeems to have been in ſo much 
pain about, viz. The Memoirs of a Pariſh Clerk, was 
a very dull and unjuſt Abuſe of an excellent Per- 
ſon, who wrote in Defence of our Religion and Con- 
girution, and who has been dead many Years. 8 
Theſe Memoirs, when they were firſt handed about 
in Manuſcript, gave ſo general an Offence, that ſo 
far from any Fear of their being robbed of them, 
it was generally expected that a certain Led Poet, 
maintain d by che Company for that Purpoſe, would 
be order'd to own them. 35 
The other admirable Piece, as the Gentlemen 
* are pleaſed to think it, call'd, An Hiſtoricophyſical = 
Account of the S. Sea, was a Work of the ſame Me- 
. Tit: It, was generally thought by all who had the 
Honour of the Company's Confidence, to be worth 
no more than ſo much blotted Paper, and as im- 
proper to be printed as their Familiar Letters, or 
the Traveſize of the Firſt Pſalm, It is no wonder, 
therefore, if a Trifle of this Nature was treated 
0 


2 


1 LS 
* ; 


| ( 215 
with no more Regard than was due to it, and 
thrown careleſsly up and down till it was loft. But 
whether ſuch an Accident can be called an intend- 
ed Plagſariſm, or whether theirs can be called an 
accidental one, in publickly taking ro themſelyes 
an Epigram of the late Mr. Rowe's, ſingly upon the 
Merit of putting one low and fooliſh Word into 
the Title of. that Epigram, muſt be determin'd by - 
the Publick. Thus, Sir, between what theſe Gen- 
tlemen own, and do not think fit to write; and 
what they write, and do not think fit to own; the 
Town has more Trouble than the Queſtion is worth. 
The Gentleman who wrote the Letters ſign d 
Philalethes, having but little Greek to ſpare, it would 
be unjuſt to rob him of any of it; I will therefore 
ſubſcribe my ſelf, YT ; 


4 


> In | Yours, 


Philo- Ditto. 


eee eee 


From the 0 4. 1728. 
To the Author. . 


PO N reading a Letter from a Lad in the 


. C4 Country, to his Father in London, to buy 


him a Commou-Prayer-Book, a Scapula's Dictionary, 
a Mfiting- Boot, and a Gulliver s Travels; I cou'd | 


not help making the following Reſlections. 


The Divine Who wrote the Travels of Gulliver, ; 


is not, it ſeems, content with turding the Heads of . 


Men, Women and Children, in the preſent Age ; 
80 ; | 5 | he =Y 


4A 


„ 
he has prepar'd for Poſterity Leſſons for the Art of 
Trifling, and employing their Time and Thoughts 
upon Nothing. The pious Dean has done what in 
him lies to render Religion, Reaſon, and common 
Senſe ridiculous, and to ſet up in their ſtead Buf- = 
Joonry, Grimace, and Impertinente, and like Harlequin, 
carries it off all with a Grin. The Fellows that ap- 

ear d on a Stage at Old Brentford, to make Mouths 
hor a Pudding, were of the ſame kind of Wits. 
They made the People laugh, and Gulli ver does no 
more. The merry Author began with a Tale of a 
Tub, in which he made a Jeſt of every Religion in 
Chriſtendom. - He-afterwards endeavour'd to joke 
us out of our Conſtitution in the Reign of his good 


Friend Harley, and now he is endeavouring to turn 35 
Reaſon into Ridicule, and put a Fool's Coat upon init 
Vit. He has us'd his Readers ſo to Grinning, 2 
that they can't bring their Faces into ſhape again, - + 
and are aſham'd of ſober Thinkiag, as it is with this in 
Parſon, a mark of Ignorance, Stupidity, and Sink- an 
ing. However, his beſt Quality is no better than _ | 
that of the Tarautula - It cauſes Laughter, bur it. ms 
alfo cauſes Death to the Underſtanding. Theſe an 
Things, as little as they appear to be, are likely 124 
to have no leſs ill Effect, than to retider the Minds w. 
of his Admirers as full of Trumpery as the Inſide ve 
of a Raree-Show Man's Box; at which I ſhou'd 1 
have been provok'd to trouble my ſelf ſo muc as 
about him, if this ſame Dean Gulliver had nat l F 
pick d up in his Travels, a decrepid, diminutive 1 
Lilliputian Poet, whom he has plac'd by his Side 3 
on the Throne of Wit; an Empire to which they 
have juſt as much Right as their dear King at Bo- | . 
logna has to his Majeſty's; which will be further pa 
made out in a very little while, and that theſe two pr 
 Tyrants in Wit, are really juſt two ſuch Monarchs ne 
as King Pyyx and King Uſb, in the Rehearſal. w 
From 


A G S | 


8 

1 

* From the London Evening: Poſt, April 4. 1728. 
'n To the Author 

wy IX. | 

4 77 E kind. Reception given 5 the Publick to 
5 ſome late Diſcoveries in the Papers of the 


Plagiaries of Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, and their Ac- 
complices, have encouraged me to proceed in my 
Search, the Effects of which e dos! to publiſn 
in the following Inſtances. 


We whoſe Names are ſi gnify d d by the following 

initial Letters do declare, 

1. That the Authors have been heard to confeſs, 
chat an Epigram on Handel and Bononcini, printed 
in the laſt Volume of Miſcellanies, did nor belong to 
any of them. 

2. That the Ode on the Longitude has been for 
many Years, and in our Hearing, frequently own'd, 
and ſung, by a Reverend Clergyman. 

3. That the Prologue to Mr. Durfey's laſt Play 
was written at Button's in a publick Room, by ſe- 
veral Hande. 

4. That the Eclogue on the Meſſ ah ſo long printed 

as Mr. Pope's, was at its firſt. Appearance in the 
Speflator publickly claim'd by a Gentleman of 
St. John's College, Cambridge, (now a Reverend 
Clergyman alto.) 

5. That the ſame learned Perſon . hath Gene 
Times acknowledg'd himſelf to have had no ſmall 
part in the Tranſlation of Homer's: Iliad, which 

paſſes wholly for Mr. Pope's; and that ſeveral Wit- - | 
neſſes can be produced from White's and St. James's, Re! 
who know Mr. Ger to have had a conſiderable 

* in the ſaid m me in the _ of 'the Lack. 


3 


( 24 
Oath if called upon; and will be heard of at Mr. Lin- 
tot 's Whenſoever any of the r injur d y gu 
put in their Claim. 7. . J. C. ES J. E. 


"La #23. 


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Pyilalenbes 


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Notice is hereby given, 
4 all Lovers of Art and Ingenuity, 


common Curioſities as never were yet exhi- 


Perſon at Twickenham, who has been long ſince ad- 
viſed to leave off his Buſineſs, may be view d there 
any Day in the Month of April Inſtant. | Avi 


Noi non crede hodie, cras credat. Ex Auto T. K. 


1. A Curling Spire — freely ouch. | 
2. A frighted Sky —— Copy from the Great 

: Blackmore. 

3. A Silver 1 etch d. 

| 4 Anawkward Grace—after the Manner ＋ Set 

Wo '5. An ambroſial Curl — entire. 

wy” 6. A nectard Urn — hiftorical, 

—_—_ 7. Adamantine Lungs as good as new. | 
8. A Vermilion Prore —Dutch. 2 
9. A many-colour'd Maid Flemiſh. N 4 

| 19. 


——To all theſe Aſſertions we are ready to "as } 


Your Humble Servant, a, 
From the Daily Journal, April . 1. 


HAT the following Collection of ſuch un- | 
bited in any publick Aucriox, belonging to a noted 


—— IM CN I AA *? 


h 8 ? 5 \ 
> 024) 


ro. 4 Triple 


ake | 11. A finging Spear — à Copy from Blackmore. 

1 12. A quivering Shade——ſomewhat ſhook in ftrerch- 
13. A dancing Cork <a great Spirit. ; 
14. A ſequeſtred Scene till Life. ö 
15. A Velvet Plain — after Brughell. 
16. An Oozy Bed Water Colours, 
17. A Liquid Road — perfettly new. 

i 18. A 8 _—_ — Capital. 

es, 10. # eath er” ate — | ; > > 

"I 20 A Leaden Death — FTheſe two go together. 


21. A Pefiſive Steed —— ax undoubted Original. 

22. A winged Wonder — Vom the Dutch Gabriel. 

23. 28 . — After the Life. „ 

24. rown Horror N 

*; A blue Languiſh 1 both very cabin. 

26. A SeH-moy'd Tripod. after the Blackſmith of 
VVäʒäSCl Antwerp. 5 


N. B. The Gent leman's Nourse, who us d to 


0 ſhow the above-mention'd Collection, being lately 

J deceas'd, Attendance will be given only in a Morn- 

Ts ing. e ee ee e 

Dee eee 

5 From the Flying - Poſt, April 6. 1728. | 

2 + ge o the Author. 
nnn | 


S CE I read your laſt Fly, I made a Viſia 
to a Friend of mine, who is a Lover of Let- 
ters, and ſaw a Manuſcript on his Table, which 
I had the Curioſity to look into; and finding the 
following Remarks in it on the Degeneracy of the 
* Taſte of the preſent Age, I prevailed for Leave ro 
F 3 


tranſcribe part of it, and ſend it to you, tho? tis 


: . oY 


to anticipate the Pleaſure which the Publick will 


ſhortly receive from a Treatiſe of the Art of Rifing 


in Poetry and Eloquence : Wherein the Excellence 


and Uſe of P——'s. Art of Sinking is particularly 


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- threaten'd with, both in Wit and Language. 


« ®Tis to be fear'd, we muſt content out ſelves 
with what good things we have already in polite 


Learning, and that we ſhall have but few or no 
Supplies from the Genius, Judgment, and Taſte 
of the preſent and coming Age; for which one 


cannot help having a Congern, tho we foreſee 


but a ſmall part of the Degeneracy which fu- 
ture Writers and Readers will certainly fall in- 


to. Indeed we are rather precipitating our 


ſelves, than falling into it. What a Precipice 


is it from LOCK E's Human Underſtamding, 


to Swift's Lilliput and Profundity ! What another 
from the Plain-Dealer, or Love for Love, to 
Harlequin, or the Beggar's Opera ! Had we ſtum- 


bled only on a Trip to the Jubilee, or Ladys Vi- 


fitivg-Day, there might have been ſome Hopes 
of riſing again. But we fink now like Ships 
laden with Lead, and muſt deſpair of ever reco- 
vering the Height from which we are fallen. It 


has been cbſerv'd. of the Genius of the Romans, 


that 'cwas, like what is ſaid of the Oak, a hun- 
dred Years in growing, a hundred Years in Per- 
tection, and a hundred Years in decaying. Our 
Genius was not. a hundred Years in growing, 
reckoning from Spenſer to Milton. It might be 


| laid to be an hundred Years in Perfection from 


Walter's firſt Poem to Addiſon's laſt : But from 
Ton ſon's Miſcellanies to Pope's, from Sir William 
Temple to his Chaplain Swift, is a melancholy 
Proſpect of the Precipitation which Poſterity is 


_ : 
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brim, gu OY, fri hot 


te Tig too well known, that the Generali off 4 
* Readers had rather be amus'd cba ind de 


and therefore ſober and ingenious- Writers have 


© invented pleaſant Fables to join Inſtruction vxith 
* Amuſement : But for Authors to tell frivolous 
te Tales, purely for telling-ſake, to collect Trifles 
© by Volumes, to deal by their Readers as fond 
e Mothers do by their Children, and give them 


e Toys and Gewgaws, inſtead of Leſſons uſeful 


“ for Life, is wicked, if done with Deſign to cor- - 
© rupt their Underftandings ; and if done with no 
“ Deſign, lc and impertinent, unbecoming the 
© Character of a Man, and much leſs that of a 
© Divine and a Dignitary. He makes no con- 


< ſcience of putting off adulterated Wit for true, 
* tho' tis perhaps a greater Cheat than paſſing. 


Counters for Guineas, or Mod's Copper-Money 
for Gold.” ” | TI 


From the Daily Journal, April 8. 1728. 


E hear that a certain Company Inſetts, 
V commonly call'd the FLIEs of Parnassus, 


having lately appear d at TwicxzxhHau, and great- 


ly infeſted the Country round; it is projected, for 
the publick Benefit, that one of the diſtinguiſh'd 
Frogs of Hxricon, ſhall make a di to the 
— Place of Contagion, on purpoſe to devour 


4 


E2 - ' Extratt, 
x7 


— 


For an Auna | to Write below himſelf, 


and to fink at once in Wit, Learning and Reputa- 


tion, was ſo unavoidable a Conſequence of much 


_ writing, that a certain Knot of eminent Wits, 
rceiving within themſelves the Symptoms of, this 


atal Neceſſity, had lately invented a Project for 
eluding the Melancholly and Severity of the De- 


ſtiny, by humourouſly erecting it into an Art; | 


the Truth, Certainty and Excellence of which, 


they have very ſucceſsfully: demonſtrated by vari- 


ous Inftances, in their own ſubſequent Labours. 


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From the Daily Journal, April 9. 1726. 


To the Author. 
SIR, 


: ow NCE the Art of Sinking in Poetry, however 
LI faſhionable, as to the Practice, was never, ſo 


Pically, reduc'd into Theory, as in a late notable 


Performance ; it is pity, the Fame of a Merit ſo 
extraordinary, ſhou'd be divided, between two 
Authors : J am, therefore, for giving the Doctor 
bis Due; whoſe-remarkable Humility has preven- 


ted his adding another Species, to his Nine Diſtinc- | 


tions of Profundity, | 1 
His Fhing-Fiſh, Swallow, Oftridge, Parrot, Di- 
dapper, Porpoiſe, Frog, Eel, and Tortoiſe, are admi- 
| Table Originals, in their Kind; but I cannot for- 

> givehis Modeſty for omitting the Monxty.— The 
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Right, to One in Ten, is what no Orche« 


Do? Me . fl deny him : So, I hope, in his nent 


Edition, we ſhall ſee the Rear of * Catalogue 
e ere ben. 

* roth, The Sum of al Theſe, One, is the 
* Monkey: Of a Genius, ſo ./oc/al, that, tho 
eit is the bufieſt little Animal in Nature, it does 
“ nothing, but in Mimickry of others.—This is 
© a light, and lively, Species: — They neither ft, 
«© walk, nor crawl; only Skip, from Poſture to 
* Poſture, ſometimes on tuo Legs, like a Man, 
* bur oft ner on four, like a  Beaſt— They are 
* attive, without Purpoſe, and merry, without 
„% Joy; ever chattering, making Motuths, biting, © 


_ © ſeratching, and doing Miſchief But are generally 


* chain'd ſhot, for the Diverſion of their Feeders ; 
* and ſmil'd at, and paſsd by, by every body elſe, 
** who comes near them. | 

- Ar the Cloſe of this Paragraph, if his knows 
Baſhfulneſs cou d be prevail'd on to ayow the Claim 
of his particular Merit, he wou'd write J. S. in Ca- 
pital Letters It is true, He wou'd ſtand alove: 
But the World will be far from wondering, they 


find No- body in Rank with him. 


For my part, ambitious. of a Place in his Mi 
cellany, I moſt humbly ; preſent what. follows, for _ 


the Honour of his Approbation. 


The DEVIL LAST GAME. 
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AID ol Nick to St. Michael, Tou uſe me but 

W ill, Se x — oh | b N 

To fuppreſs all my Force, and reſtrais all my Skill; 
Let me looſe at Religien, Vil ſhew my good Parts, 
And try, if your Doctrine can. balance my Art.. 


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"Tis a Match, ery'd the Angel, and drew off hisGuard; | 


And the Devil ſlipt from him, to play a Coat Card. 


The firſt Help he ſought, was a quali 5 4 Mind, 


That had Compaſs, 5, and Void, for the Uſe he deſign d. 


There occurrd a pert Nothing, a Stick of Church 


imber, 


Who had Seiffueſs of Will but his Morals were 
limber : 


To whom Wit ſerv'd for Reaſon, and Paſſion for Zeal; 
Who had Teeth like a Viper, and Tail, like an Eel. 


Whoſe Diſtaſte was ſincere, and whoſe F riendſhip | 


Pretence, 


Who ſupply'd Wanr of Merit, by Store of fine Senſe: 
Wore the Malice of Hell, with a Heavenly Grace, .- 


Of Humour enchanting, and eaſy of Face: 


His Tongue flow'd with Honey, his Eyes Aaſh'd 


Delight ; 


He deſpis'd what was wrong, and abus'd what was 


right : 
Had a Knack to laugh luckily, never e twice, 


And, with Coar ſene ſo of * had a Tate that was E 


nice. 


6 Nature form'd him e but, whetting him faſt, 


He was edg d for Decay, and too brittle to laft. 

He wou'd quarrel with Virtue, becauſe twas his 
Foe's, 

And was hardly a Friend to the Vice, which he choſe: 

He-cou'd love nothing grave, nothing pleaſait for- 


bear; 
He was always in Ih, but was maſt ſo, in Prayer. 


Lord be prais 4, wa the Devil {—A Fig for all 


Grace ! 


So, he breath'd a new "IRS oer the Bronze of bis 
Face : 


Lent him Pride above Hope, and Conceit above Spleen, 
woe him into Church ſervice, 20 cal d him a Dax. 


From 


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From the Flying-Poſt, April 13. 1728. 


To. the Author. 


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IN my laſt I ſent you a few Lines out of a Ma- 
nuſcript Treatiſe, written by a Friend of mine 

in Proſe and Verſe, wherein are ſome Touches on 

the two Wits who have lately ſet up themſelves 

as Tyrants of Parnaſſus, without having the leaſt 

Title to that Empire, unleſs it be an Hereditary 

one from Ogilly and L Eſtrange Among the 
Poetry I met with theſe Verſes in an Epiſtle to a 
Friend, on True Wit and Falſe Mit. 2 


What think you of thoſe Wits who run adrift, 
And fall on Friend and Foe by tums, like t? 
Who in one Tub's ſo. wicked and ſo quaint, 
And in his other Tub ſo rare a Saint; 

Who as a Wit at all Religion fleers, 

And always: as a D——n ſo ftaunch appears; 
Who, when a merry Tale he is pleas'd to tell, 
Can ſport with Heaven, and make a Jeſt of Hel? 
Fine Wit ! Nor wants it much to be as fine 

A, Don Quevedo and the Libertine. 

| Thus Monkeys, let them Gown or Jacket wear, 
Grin always, and their Tails are always bare. 


Again the Author is ſpeaking of aukward Raillery. 


But want of Breeding Part, and Part a want. 
Of Wit, occafions their Recourſe to Cant. 

To ridicule a Sot and rally right, 1. 
An Artiſt with a Smile conceals his Spite. A 
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He uounds with Flattery, and kills with Praiſe. 


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Smooth are his Wards, his Thoughts no Choler raiſe,. 25 


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Men of good Senſe know when to frown or ſanile, 
And with their Subjecis change their Thoughts and Sile, 
But to be always Grinning is a fign, RE 
Howe er in Tune without, be is not within. 


And though the Laugh is loud at what he ſays, 


*Tis ſuch a Laugh as Apes and Ideots raiſe. 


There are 


many more Lines _ the ſame To 
jet, and ſome Pages on Guliiver's Colleg wk the 
Undertaker | 


of Hamer ; out of which I ſhall at this 


Time only tranſcribe what follows. 


On one of the Admirers of that Tranſlation, wha 
ſaid, There was a great deal of Wit in Homer. 2 


Homer is full of Nit. There is not more 

In the Old Batchelor, or in Jane Shore. 

Right ; very Right ; why don't you go the Round, 
Aud idyl, Ode, and Ælegy confound 

The main Miſtake is there; and which is which 

Tou know uo more than of the Parts of Speech. 

1z Homer d'ye admire the Grand Deſign, 

The Marvellous, the Moving, the Divine? 

1s it the Fable or the Moral charms,  *' 

The Kiugs in Quarrels, or the Gods in Arms? 

is it the ſounding Words and Thoughts ſublime, 

Or the ſmooth Verſe, the pretty Turns and Rhime ? 
For what are you in Love with Homer ? ſpeak, 
And own the Wit is Engliſh, and not Greek. 
If Greek ? had been, I ſhou'd have look d about 
To know how P or you cou d find it out. 


A hundred Comments are on Homer writ, 


A hundred Verfious which thoſe Comments fit. 


And he who ſuch an Author can't command, 


Miſt neither Greek nor Engliſh underſtand. 


Some 


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His Epic Strain, and been like P 2674 
4 % we a, pray, as oil ts ? 


Thur. Favour farther thaw their Money goes. 


en Homer was the Faſhion, who I pray -- | 2 


o be f/ in: had more" Pretence” 2 een ee, 


Urge not that Beans, and Men of Brauiſb Pane, o 


Know more than Ladies of the finer Arts, 


"Tis tude ; if Phoebus was to judge the Caſe," 


He'd give the Queſtion ro the faireſt Pacei ' 


Both Beans und Belles the fav rite Poet bvits, 


An Reieher lack much Learting to ſubſcride, Ec: 2 
The tale will Abübeleft⸗ by tir d wh ſuck 


22 Work as this is; and to pleaſe them, we 
ou d preſent them a Picture of Poet Gulliver, and 


his Brother King; which may be done in due Time, 


and the two Figures will. be the beſt Repreſenta- 
rives of the Lili utian and the tn which 


he bas deſeribe in his Travels. 


ae 


dos οοοοοοοοοννν 


ee the ng e April 16, 1728. 


A Cody of Verſes, ſaid to be omitted, by 


Accident, in the New Miſcellany. 


EE: a Court, that was cal d, For "other Day, in the 


By the good Graf dtn Angel, who holdi us in Care, 


The Genius of Miſchief, in ſullen Diſdain, 


Made his Honours, and frowtd, and rok Leave to | 


complain. 
Ii is thus, ſaid the Ditmon, Yd, heavenly Blader, 


Keep Jour Word, with us, Envo I H- the 
; Shades? 125 oi 7 


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Vow'd you not, in Revenge for the Sins of. is Lon, 
To allow'us free. Licence, and hold back your Hand? 
Tet, unmindful of Us, or the Promiſe we claim, 3 
See us frighted to frontal at one little Name! 

See the Graces, and Muſes, and Virtues, e 
To unite Beauty, Wiſdom, and Force, in one 74 
Nay, in Hale of our Leader, reſoh/d, not to ceaſe,. + 
Till you raiſe us a Foe, that can charm Hell £9 38 
You, to make bim more dredful, and widen his Scope," . 


Give him muſical Magick, and chriſten him Pope... OV 

All alarm d, at his Verſe, we have Right to complain, Ti 

Left England ſbou d, ſoon, be Old England, again, Po 

There's Attraction, you know, in a Poet, like This, At 

85 That can. une, the whole World i into Virtue, Ls His. | — 

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Never — 9 *d the Angel ,—my Promiſe once given, | | W 

2 are ſafe, for this Time, from the Outguards of Heaven; th 
Pope is gelt, in his Youth, for his Countrymen's Crimes, 

ad. his Luſtre dim'd down, to the Dusk of the. Tow : ev 

God ſent Pain, and Impertinence, Wit to contro | th 

Gave the Devil his Body, and bid Swift le Gul, of 

HEVEDSHEHDE DELETE) 6 

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To the Author. b 1 

in 

244; + SUR, hi 

defire you to give a Place in your WJ to the _ 

following, written byy a Gentleman to | his enn. : 2 

A Dear. Sir, ZR | 2 ot 


. O U have often wonder'd, when my opinion 
has been asked of the Writings of a certain 
-popular Poer, why I ſeem'd fo unwilling to paſs 
my Juy gment on them: Had I 3 * real 
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Sentiments, I knew I ſhould not be thought ſo well 
of by ſome particular Perſons as I deſire to be; and 


if I had commended them, I had ſpoke a Language 
foreign to my Heart. To cenſure a Writer, with 
a deſign to convince the implicit Admirer of his 
Error, you are ſenſible more is required than 
à true Taſte in ourſelves, a Force of Reaſon is ne- 
eeſſary. ee, een Bong Rr ap, 
I am perſuaded that they who have not yet got 
over the prejudice of Cuſtom, need but read the 


Treatiſe of the Prafund, or the Art of Sinking in 


Poetry, to conceive the greateſt Contempt of the 
Author or Authors of it. I ſhall in this Letter con- 
fine myſelf to Mr. Pope; for tho” all that elaborate; 


Heap may not be his, it is to be ſuppos d, that in 


Works in which more than one are concerned, no- 
thing paſſes without the Approbation of each Party. 

1 ſhall not pretend to carry my Remarks thro" 
every Chapter, but from three Paſſages point out 
the extraordinary Gratitude,” Modeſty, and Learning 
of that Gentledan. % 99234 95; 


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1. I cannot but congratulate our Age on this 
** peculiar Felicity, that cho we have made indeed 
great Progreſs in all other Branches of Euxury, 
ive are not yet debauched with any high Re- 
* lifſþ in Poetry, but are in this one Taſte. leſs 


nice than our Anceſtors. Chap. * Who would 


Ip that this is the only Man that bas made 
his Fortune by his Writings !\I am almoſt ready to 
think he has arriy'd to a Senſe of his own Merit, 
and intended this as a Satire on his profuſe Sub- 


ſcribers, who contributed ſo largely to him, while 


other Authors of greater Merit were neglected. 


CCC 
1 2. A Footman ſpeaking. like a Philoſopher; . 
and a ſine Gentleman like a Scholar. Whoever 


is conyerſant in moderꝝ Plays, may make a moſt 


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cannot ſee that he here lily aims at his Friend Cn 


greve, a Gentleman that has never run into an Abuſe 
of other Authors. The Character of Jeremy, in 
Love for Love, may poſſibly be a little too forced, 


bur I hope Valentine is not leſs a Gentleman for be- 


ing a Scholar; I fancy if Mr, Pope were one, he 
would find his Learning no. Diſadvantage to his o- 
ther Accompliſhments. I know nothing that could 
have recommended this Gentleman to the Abuſe of 
Mr. Pope, but having either detected his Errors, 
wrote better than himſelf, or been his Friend; 
which, I could venture to make appear, might be 
his Reaſons for every Perſon we ſind in the Preſumd, 
except ſuch as Jom Durfey and Ned Ward, who are 


not introduc'd/ for their own Sake, but rhe more to 


leſſen an ingenious Gentleman who is plac'd betwixt 
The third, and laſt Paſſage, which I ſhalt now: 
take Notice of, is this; ſpeaking of Tropes and Fi- 


gures, he ſays, 


„ 3. We cannot avoid giving to theſe the Greek 
ba and Roman Names; but in Tenderneſs to our 
Countrymen and Fellow-Writers, many of whom, 
" however exquiſite, are wholly ignorant of thoſe 
cc | | | * 2 *.. ; 
Languages, we have alſo explain d them in our 
* own Mother Tongue. Chap. 10.” I wonder 


how this Gentleman would look, ſhould it be diſ- 


covered, that he has not tranſlated ten Verſes to- 
oro in any Book of Homer, with Juſtice to the 
oet ; and yet he dares reproach his Fellow-Wr1- 
rers with not underſtanding Greek, In reviewing 
the Character of Therſites, in the 2d Book of the 
Itiza, from Verſe 211, beginning with theſe Words, 
A, EV peLovTo, and ending with theſe *Afraueu- 
ova ve Ke HU, Verſe 224, I find Mr. Pope has 
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rebuking Ther/ites, he lay 


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mour whiy wi Wit. erte Me 


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and likewiſe that kee 2d 


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To la the Great, and Motarchs 0 Veblld 


But Homer ſpeaks otherwiſe of this Creature ; £ 12 


Senſe of his Words, from which theſe of Mr. Pope 
are tranſlated, is this; He was Maſter of many Words 
tu Exceſs, and would urangle with the Princes raſbly 
aud with:no Grace. If Homer had — to draw 


a: Wit, he would not have let him N 


do aſſure 


out any Grace; for ſuch, and no —— 


eld have — oy kaTa by ind 


dt have imputed this Miſtake of wry 


indeed Malice — nothing to do there) to 
neſs, had not Mr. Pope taken pains, in two Notes, 
to conſitm his Error: He ſays in the Note to 5 
255, Our Author has yen great Judgment in 
Particulars. he has choſen to compoſe 'the Pifture of 5 
pernicious Creature of Wit And 1 on m_ Note to Ve 
326, on the Soldiers * 


Ven have not 
— the greateſt. Kinduſe fo a 122 What could 


induce this Wag to run ſo much on Wit ! In ſhort, 
Sir, if you will give en? the Trouble to read 


over again the Character of Therfites in Homer, and 
Mr. Pope, you will find almoſt one half of the lat- 
ter no Tranſlation, and the other Parts but faint 


1 of his Author s W. beides 


ſome in the Gyeek paſſed over by him u know, 


Sir, the Ch acer: af. TR i isthat of a deformed 


Wretch, 
His Figure arb as night bis Sou procleim,... 
As Mr. Pope obſerves, by Way of Paraphtaſe ; for 


Greek. 


the * of * Line! is a ro be found in the 


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being of a reſtleſs, mali 


ling with, his Superiors, 


ut without a Spice of Wit, and one that would 


take a Kick or a Cuff without Reſiſtance: And 


this is Humour. And, though not ſo deſigned by 


the Perſon in whom it is, cannot be beheld without | 
| crexting Mirth in the Spectator; and to me this is 


the of Humour for Comic Poetry, how con- 
ſiſtent with the Epic, I leave to Mr. Pope and his 
Friends to debate; for the Ridiculous is not only 
creative of Laughter, but anſwers a moral End; 
for the Spectator, if he has the leaſt Spirit of In- 
ruition, immediately looks into himſelf, to correct 
ſuch Vices or Follies, if they are in him, as are 
the Subjects of Ridicule in the Comedy: But all 
this is out of Mr. Pope's Way. 


I ſhall in my next give you a Tranſlation of chat 


ridiculous Character of Therfites, which, I believe 
I may venture to ſay, will not be reckon'd the 


worſt, while Mr. Pope S is eee 


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| From the Flying-Poſt, April T3. þ 7-7 
Sing a noble Dith | 


Of London's noble City, 
Whoſe Wits are all ſo witty 


That common Senſe cau't reach em. £ 
Theres D' Anvers, S——, and P— Sir, ; 
With whom no Men can cope Sir, 5 
Aud if they con d, we hope, Sir, FAA 21 

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Jo know what Trade and Coin is, | 


| FAY D'Anvers has his ns. 
He Roger s Gifts inherits, 


The Poet raggs his Verſes, + 
The Squire his Flams di iſperſes, 


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Theſe four in ſtrif# Alliance 


Moſt bravely bid Defiance IE | 


To Virtue, Senſe and Science ; 
And who but needs muſt praiſe 'em! 


bn, Dean his Tales ark; „ 


And Poll her Parts has ſhewn; © ö 
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Shakeſpeare e, which did not come im- 
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YO U deſire to know Rs ip 560 l At- 
tack which Mr. POPE has lately made a- 
_=_ Writers Jjuing, and dead, he had Jo often 
d a fling of Satire at me. I ſhould be Fery wil- 
ling to plead Guilty to his Indictment, ant think 
as meanly of myſelf as he can poſſibly do, were his 
Quarrel altogether upon a fair and uibyafsd Mo- 
on But he is an ry at the Man; and, as Juvenal 
facit Indignatio Verſum. In my Attempts 

to — Shakeſpeare, I had laid open . Defects 
of his Edition. I endeavour d in my Bock to treat 


him with all the Deference and Tenderneſs, that 


the Circumſtance ould bear; and no body, 1 think, 


has © 4 por me of the leaſt Failure in this Point: 


Bur 


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never to magnify any _—_ without clouding it 6 


[' 
But to ſet any Thing right, a 


frer Mr. Pope had ad- 
juſted the whole, was a Preſumption not to be for- 


given! Har ie Lacmma. That I have been right, 


in the Main, in my Corrections, is pretty well a- 


greed on my Side: And I am almoſt apt to think, 


Mr. Pepe has been of the ſame Opinion; or he 
would have ſhewn them trifling, and impertizent, 
by a Confutation ; unleſs it was beneath him to 
enter the Liſts with ſo weak an Adverſary, - 
 Inftead-of a Reply, or a Juſtification of his own 


Indolence, his Re ſource is to railing or as it were, 


(after the French Manner of puniſhing, when a 
Criminal is out of their Reach) to hang me up 


in Effigie. But 1 forgive his arch Talent of pifturing : 


He ſhall repreſent me as an Eel, or a Swallow, a 
Grub, of a Worm; or in any other form of Ridi- 
cule, that may ſerve to allay a future Fit of Speer. 
If Infirmity may' be thrown off by ſuch pretty Exer- 
ciſe, his wayward Humour ſhall have the full Scope 
of Calumny. But as he has been pleaſed to re- 


flect on me in a fe. Quotations from a Play, Which 
T had lately the good Fortune to uſher into the 


World; I am there concern'd in Reputation to 
enter upon my Defence. There are three Paſſages, 
2 obſerve, in his Art Sinking in Poetry, which 
e endeavours to bring into Diſgrace, from Dauble 
Diſtreſs, as he calls it: I ſuppoſe, he means Double 
Falſbood; for that is the Title of the Play publiſhed 
by me. I ſhould have expected from ſome others, 


that, when they were upon the Buſineſs of finding 
fault, they ſnould not have committed even fuch 
an Error. But tis meer Hord-catching, and beneath 


a great Genius to be exaft in any Thing. 
One of theſe Paſſages, alledg'd by our critical 
Examiner, is of that Stamp, which is certainly to 
determine me in the Claſs of W ak jr Writers ; 


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the ſame Time., The Place, ſo offenſive al its 
Cloudineſs, is this. 


————Th Obſcureneſs af * Bb 
Cannot eclipſe the Luſtre of her Eye, 
Which make her all one Light. 0 


I muſt own, I think, a Man needs be no great | 


Oedipus to ſolve the Difficulty of this Paſſage. No- 
thing has ever been more common than for Lovers 


to compare their Miftreſſes Eyes to Suns and Stars. 
And what does Henriquex ſay more 1 this, 


That tho his Miſtreſs be obſcure by her Birth, yet 
her Eyes are ſo refulgent, they ſet her above that 
Diſadvantage, and make her all over Brightneſs ? 


Now wherein is this Thought either ſo wonder- 


fully magnified, or clouded? Phe only. Obſcurity, 
that I can yet find in the Paſſage, is in Mr. Pope's 
clouding it by miſunderſtanding. bor if he will take 
a ſimple Deſcription of Beauty to be the Deſcrip- 
tion of a Lady at Dinner, as he is pleaſed to do here, 


there is, indeed, ſomething of the Bavtian' Fog in 


the Caſe. I remember another Rapture in Shake- 
ſeenre, upon a Painter's drawing a fine Lady's Pic- 


ture, where the Thought ſeems to me every whit 


as much magnified, and as dark at the firſt beverage 


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Hyw could he ſee to do ae f Having done One, 

_ Methinks, it ſhould have Pow'r to ſteal both his, 
And have itſelf unfiniſh'd, | © > 


This Paſſage is from the Merchant of Venice; . if 

the Examiner will not allow it to be dark, Tl ven- 
ture to produce another out of the Tame Play, chat, 
I believe, every body will agree. to be ſo. : 


Grat. My Eyes, my Lord, can look as ſift as ; yours: 


Tou ſaw the Miſtreſs I beheld the Maid; 
Du loud; I lob for Intermiſſion. 


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thinks, to know what Ideas Mr. Pope had of Gra- 


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If I did not Know a little more of Shakeſpeare, than 
hag yet convinc'd the Publick that he does, 
m ſome ſuch Inſtances, take him for a 


tiano's loving for Intermiſſion. Surely, he will hardly 
perſuade us, that Intermiſſion here means for want 
of ſomething elſe to do, becauſe he would not ſtand idle. 
By a proper Variation in the Pointing, and a very 
ſhort Comment, I'll undertake to clear up the Clouds 
of this dark Place; and thus it muſt be correRted, 
before it can be underſtood. nee, 5 
Grat. My Eyes, my Lord, can look. as ſwift as yours ; 
| Tow ſaw the Miſtreſs, I beheld the Maid. 
You low'd-; I loud (For Intermiſſion © 
No more pertains to me, my Lord, than you.) 
i. e. For, in a Love-Adventure, I could no more 
ſtand out, no more be idle, or unactive, than you. 


But Self-Defence, and not Correction, was the De- 


ſign of this Epiſtle; ſo Ill proceed to his ſecond Ob- 
ſervation, and ſee how hard that will bear upon me. 
Another of the Paſſages which Mr. Pope is pleaſed 
to be merry with, is in a Speech of Violantes; 
Wax ! render up thy Truſt. | ; 
This, in his Engliſh, is, open the Letter: And he 
facetiouſly mingles it with ſome other pompous In- 
ſtances, moſt, I ſuppoſe, of his own Framing; 
which in plain Terms ſignify. no more than, See, 
who's there, Snuff the Candle; Uncork the Bottle; Chip 
the Bread; to ſhew how ridiculous Actions of no 
Conſequence are, when too much exalted in the 
Diction. This he brings under a Figure, which 
he calls the Buskin, or Stately, But we'll examine Cir- 


cumſtances fairly, and then we ſhall ſee which is 
moſt ridiculous, the Phraſe, or our ſagacious Cenſurer. 


Violante is newly debauch'd by Henriquex, on his 
ſolemn Promiſe of marrying her: She thinks, he is 


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returning to his. Father's Court, as he had told 


her, for a ſhort time; and expects no Letter from 
him. His Servant, who brings the Letter, con- 


tradicts his Maſter's going for Court; and tells 


her he's gone ſome two Months Progreſs another 
Way, upon a Change of Purpoſe. She, who knew 
what Conceſſions ſhe had made to, him, declares 
her ſelf, by Starts, under the greateſt Agonies; 
and immediately, upon the Servant leaving her, 
expreſſes an equal Impatience and Fear tor the 
Contents of this unexpected Letter. | 
' To Hearts like mine Suſpence is Miſery. Mc, 
Wax ! render up thy Tut Be the Content: 
Preſp raus, or fatal, they are all my due. 
Now Mr. Pope, to ſhew us his profound Judgment 
in Dramatical Paſſions, thinks a Lark in her Cir- 


cumſtances cannot, without Abſurdity, open a 
Letter that comes to her on Surprize, with any 


more Preparation than the moſt unconcers'd Perſon 
alive ſhould a common Letter by the Penny-Poſt. I'll 
beg leave to put him̃ in mind of twoPaſſages in Shake- 
222 in both which the Poet has, upon 2 
.erters, prefaced the Action with the like Addreſs 
to the Wax. The firſt is in King Lear, where Edgar 
having, in Defence of his Father, kill'd Goneril's 
Steward, ſearches his Pockets for Papers, and find- 
ing a Letter, breaks it open, with this Introduction. 
Leave, gentle Wax; and Manners blame us not; 
T0 know our Enemies Minds, we rip their Hearts ; 
Their Papers are more lawful. © 1 


The other is in Cymibeline, The Princeſs Imogen, : | 


whoſe Husband is baniſh'd, has a Letter from him 


brought to her by her Servant Piſanio. The poor 
Lady, whoſe Love makes her afraid that her ab- 


ſent Lord may either not be in Health, or diſcon- 
tented at his Exile, prays, neither of theſe may 


be the Caſe, agd breaks up the Letter with ſome- 
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Lam aware that Mr, Pope may; reply, his Cavit 


was not againſt.the Action it ſelf of addreſſing to 
the Wax, but to the exalting that Action in the 
Terms. In this Point I may fairly ſhelter my ſelf 
under the Jadgment of a Man, whoſe Character 


in Poetry will vie with any Rival this Age ſhall - 


produce. Mr. DRY DEN, in his Eſſay on 
Dramatic Poeſy, tells us, That when, from the 
© moſt elevated Thoughts of Verſe, we paſs to 
* thoſe which are moſt mean, and which are com- 


<* mon with the loweſt of Houſhold Converſation; 
yet ſtill there is a Choice to be made of the beſt 


Words, and the leaſt yulgar, (provided they be 
apt, ) to expreſs ſuch 3 Our Language 
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<* not cloath ordinary Things in it, as decently as 
„ the Latin, if he uſe the ſame Diligence in his 


* Choice of Words. Aebi 5 

I come now in the laſt Quotation, which, in our 
Examiner's handling, falls under this Predicament, 
of being a Thought aſteuifhingly aut of the May of 


common Senſe. 


Nuhr but himſelf can be bis Parallel. 


- This, he hints, may ſeem borrow'd from the 
Thought of that Maſter of a Show in Smithfield, .- 


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who writ in large Letters over the Picture of his 


Elephant, This is the greateſt Elephant in the World. 
except himſelf. I like the pleaſantry of the Gen- 
tleman's Baxter, but have no great doubt of get» 

ting clear from the Severity of it. The Lines in 


the Flay ſtand thus 


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Is there à Treachery like this in Baſeneſs © © 
Recorded any where? It is the deepeſt : EY 0 + 
None but it ſelf can be its Parallel, + 


F am not a little ſurpriz'd'to find; that our Exa- 
miner at laſt is dwindled into a Vord-catcher. Lite- 
rally ſpeaking, indeed, I agree with Mr. Pope, that 


nothing can be the Parallel to it ſelf / but allowing 
a little for the Liberty of Expreſſion, does it not 


plainly imply, that. it is a Treachery which ſtands 
ſingle for the Nature of its Baſeneſs, and has not 
its Parallel on Record; and that nothing but a 
Treachery equal to it in Baſeneſs, can parallel it? 
If this were ſuch Nonſenſe, as Mr. Pope would 
willingly have it, it would be a yery bad Plea for 


me to-alledge, as the Truth is, that the Line is in 


Shakeſpeare's old Copy; for I might have ſuppreſs'd. 
it. Bur, I hope, it is defenſible ; at leaft, if Ex- 
amples may keep it in Countenance. I remember 


4 piece of Nonſenſe juſt of the ſame Stamp, in the 


Amphitryo of Plautus ; Sofia, having ſurvey'd Mer- 


cury from Top to Toe, finds him ſuch an exact = 
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That is, He is as like me, as J am to my ſelf : For 
the Huta muſt: be helpd out thus: —atq: Ego 
ſum mihi. Now I humbly conceive, in Strictneſs 
of Expreſſion, a Man can no more be like himſelf, 


than a Thing be its -own Parallel. But to confine 
my ſelf ro Shakeſpear : I doubt not but I can pro- 


duce ſome ſimilar Paſſages ſrom him, which, lite- 
rally examin'd, are ſtark Nonſenſe ; and yet, taken 


with a candid Latitude, have never appear d ridi- 


dulous. Mr. Pope would ſcarce allow one Man 


to ſay to another, Compare or * your 
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„ ſhe's a very fair Woman: But compare and 
_ &' weigh her with ſome other Women that I could 


© name, and the Caſe will be alter d. Yet the 
very Subſtance of this is ſaid by Shakeſpeare in Romeo 


and Juliet; and Mr. Pope has not degraded it as 
any Abſurdity, or unworthy of the Author. 

{ 0 Pho.! pho! you ſaw her fair, noe elſe being by ; 
Fer ſelf poiz'd with her ſelf in either Eye: 


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Or what ſhall we ſay of the three following Quo- 


tations?. And, I am ſure, I could match them 
with 'Threeſcore of the fame Stamp. 

$ Romeo and Juliet. —0h! þ light a Foot 

il ne er wear out the everlaſting Flint, 

a Winter's Tale. — For Cogitation 

. Refides not in the Man, that does not think. 


Hamlet.— Try what Repentance can, What 


can it not ? 5: 
ITet what can it, when one cannot repent ? 


Who does not ſee at once, that the heavieſt Foot 


that ever trod, could not wear out an everlaſting 
Flint? Or, that he, that does not think, has no 
Thought in him? Or, that Repentance can avail no- 
thing, when a Man has 10 Repentance ? Yet let 
theſe Paſſages appear with the caſting Weight of Al- 
lowance, the . Liceytia ſumpta pudenter, as Horace 


calls it; and their Abſurdity will not be ſo extra- 
vagant, as when examined by the literal Touchſtone. 


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But it is high time to conclude. 


of 


If Mr. Pope is angry with me for attempting- to 


reſtore Shakeſpeare, I hope the Publick are not. 
Admit my Sheets have no other Merit, they will 


at 


=_ i | atleaſt have this : They Hil meal $6) toms 
DPegree of Accuracy in his next Edition of that Pert, 
114 i | which we are to have in 4 fem Months; And then 


we ſhall ſee whether we owed 3 
former Edition to Indiligente, of his Hiexperience in 
tte Author. And as my Rem upon the whole 
Works of Shakeſpeare hal cloſely artend upon the 

Publication of his Edition, I'll venture to promiſe 
without | Arrogance, that Pl then give above foe 
bundred more fair * that ſhall eſcape 
bin and gh Ms * _—_— 


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LEW. THEOBALD. 


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From the Daily Journal, May 16. 1728. 


1 To the Author. e Ayn 
SIR; 


I Deſire that you would give the — RR. Di- +» 
courſe a Place in your Paper, as foon as you 
enn with Convenience, which will o | 


Ta HunbltSrua, 
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I As lack in treating of Sate i himſelf 

often ſublime, ſo lege p. has writ | 

of the Profund with the utmoſt Profundity, and is if 

_ himſelf a perpecual Example of that Abſurdity and > 

that Schptdiry for which he gives vain and imper- YL 
tinent Rules. His Example alone makes all Rules 

ſuperfluous. He who can bite" come to copy his 
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and ſtupid, and vengmous;” Ae N 1 
FT be Senpidity of the vileſt Scribbler was never 
*- ſo notbrious, as A. P's in the 6rh Chapter of his 
Treatiſe, Where he makes uſe of the initial Let- 
ters of Authors Chriſtian and Surnames; and in 
one place, of the initial 
Name, and the initial a al Letter of the Sur- 
name; and all this ſo very ĩmpertinently, that one 


and the fame Author is compared to very different 


Creatures, -whoſe Natures, and Forms, ayd Qua- 
ties, are, in ſome of theſe Creatureg gontra- 
dictory to thoſe of others. C. G. in the 28th Page 
is called a Fhing- Fiſb, and in the 27th a Porpoiſe. 
In the 26th: Page L. Z. is a Swallow, and in the 
 a8th an Eel. In the 27th Page L. M Dis a Di- 


dapper, and in the 28th an Eel, as the Cloud in K 
Hamlet is ſometimes like a Veaxel, and ſometimes 


hike a Mule. But neither the initial nor the final 
Letters of theſe Authors Names, nor their Perſons, 
nor their Actions, ever gave any ſuch Ideas to any 
Mortal; unleſs to this little whimſical Creature. 
But now let ns ſee if we cannot turn this very 


Method with a little more Succeſs upon Alexander 


P. For let us only do by him, what he has done 
by L. W—D, in his 27th Page, that is, take the 
initial Letter of his Chriſtian Name, and the ini- 
tial and final Letters of his Surname, viz. A. P—E, 


and they give you the ſame Idea of an Ape, that 


his Face, and his Shape, and his Stature do, and 
his Nature ludicrouſly miſchievous. | 


Ass he has been conſtantly meditating Miſchief, 
he has, like his African and Afatick Relations the 


Jackanapes's and Quidnunchi's, been always mi- 
micking every Body and every Thing: But in his 
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bis No-inzguing, will be ſure rb fk | 
welt Bottom of Profundity. He will be 
P. is in his'T'reatiſe of the Prefund; that 


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e © mimioll Eüays he always inks "6s far below” choſe 


Bt | _ Wwhotwhe endeavours to counterfeit, as the Actions 
[3 olf a Monkey fall ſhort of thoſe of a Man: M 
In his Rhapſody of Windſor Fpreſt, which was th 
impudently writ in Emulation of the:Cooper*s-Hill « 
of Sir John Denham, one of the moſt beautiful and . 

moſt artful Poems that we have in Engliſh Rhime, pi 
A. PE ſinks as far below Sir John Denham, as at 
the Bottom of Windſor: Foreſt is below the Summit ne 
of Cooper's- Hill. Ti 
In the Ode which theme Paxtomituical Sls A 
wrote upon St. Cæcilia's Day, an Ode which was of 
vainly and fooliſhly writ in Emulation of Mr. Dry- pr 
den's Feaſt of Alexander, he has not the leaſt Sha- v 
dow of any of Mr, Dryden's great Qualities, nei- of 
ther of his Art, his Varkeys: his Paſſion, his En- 0 
| thuſiaſm, or his Harmony. The very Numbers 1 
in Mr. Dryden's incomparable Ode, are themſelves Ly: 

; incomparable, and are always adapted and ad- | 
juſted by that great Poet to his Paſſion and his En- : 2 

thuſia ſm. 


Tho I have not for ſeveral Years add Chaucer? 8 
Temple of Fame, yet I am well enough acquainted 
with his Character, to know that he has too much 

Genius, and too much good Senſe to have eom- 
mitted many Abſurdities; whereas the Temple: of 


Fame, writ by the Pantomimical A. E, is one tl 
long Chain of Blunders and Boggiſms, and one i 
continued Abſurdity. | d 

All the World knows how very much he falls Bo 
ſhort of "Ambroſe Philips in Paſtorals ; but in the FE. il 


Drama, he is below even Tom Durfey. The Mar- 
riage- Hater match/d, and the Boarding-School, tho' 
but indifterent Performances, are yet ten times 


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better Dramatical Pieces than the whimfical What 1 
d'ye call it. J 
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And yet this little ack Command has endea» 
nd t0 decry and calumniate oy Author 9 — 
n. * nas 


8 bas excelled film: F744 one in a 9 3 Res ö x; by. 
8 to him, moved partly by his natural Envy and ot 17 
, is 


Malice, (the'Deformity of his Mind anſwering to 3 op 
- that of his Body) and partly. by that Ignorance. ah 5 43 „ 
4 Stupidity which make 4 Dog how! at the Mon. 
1 Let notwithſtanding his nene and his Sea, 
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pidity, this Auimaleulum of an Author, is, forſoothi! 

at this wy Jun&ure, writing the Progreſs of Dul-" 5 1 
neſs. Yes! the Author of Windſor Foreſt, of te 
Temple of Fame, of the What d'ye call it; nay, te 


> Author even of the Profund, is writing the Progreſs 8 

3 of Dulneſs! A moſt vain and impertinent Enters pats 

„ prize ! For they who have read his ſeveral Pieces % 2 Ol 

- which we mentioned above, have read the Progreſ® *. 

. of Dulneſs ; a Progreſs that began in Windſor Fo- 8 

. oy and ended in che Profund ; as the ſhort Pro; | ® 

; greſs of the Devil's Hogs ended in the Depth of the 

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Alphabetical Lift of all ſuch Perſons, whe=- : 


ther dead ns living, who are abuſed in the three 
Volumes lately publiſhed by Pope and Company; 
diſtinguiſhing by proper Aſteriſms ſuch as are par- 
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Tux Queen. p The Bench of Biſhops. 
His Lats MaJesTY. The 7 ODS # 
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Sir John , 705 
Sir Samuel Garth. 


Mr. Crow. .. 


Private Pcricr that are 


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M.. Lee. 4 
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Mr. T. Brown. _ SES. 
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Mr. Howard. 


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Sir R. Steele. 
Dr. Young, 


Mr A. Philip; | 


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Parſons, as for their great Merits, have t ſhape} 


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