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A - * 7 : 2 4 = 4 5 , N , = - % . { E & N * 4 . * C . , * \ * „ 5 4 5 ” 4 . * 4 n N — ; 4 ＋ o * 0 8 7 » 1 = = = 5 . » 0 ” # 0 1 - 2 * . ; 4 £oY , G „ . \ . r nen 8 4 e 4 — * FA #1 11 * e 1 v6 pt _ . FY 8 A > diate ans METS DS on Fe 3 n an N ph 1 * * W ee KARL —jͤ—— — — PIECES contained i in this BOOK, "Tx HE 3 8 4 ee :. A LETTER to the Publiſher, occaſioned by the z preſent Edition of the Du x c1 a D. | The Prolegomena of MarTiINUus SC KIBLERUS: TESTIMONIES of AuTRORS n ou Poet and his Works. A Diss ERTATIOx of the Po k M. Dux crApOSU PERIOCHA: Or, Arguments to the Books. The DUNC IAD, in three Books, Norzs VarIorUM: Being the Scholia of the learned M. ScRx1BLERV Ss and others with the Adver= ſaria of JohN Dennis, LEWIS THEOBALD, EpmunD Curr, the JouRNALISTsS, &c. IN DE x of PE RSONS celebrated in this Poem. * Invexof Tux s (including Authors) to be = found in the Notes. APPENDIX. * 122 8 n A r 4 4 „ 2c. © - 8 12 „ 3 . — „ 5 * . N 5 + 0 e Names, was his care to preſerve the From any falſe Applications, whereas in the 5 N e e % 4 1 NN 8 4 e A 8 8 t 5 * 2 "1 Es aA, 3 S 3 1 8 e e Re rn 2 Ne MD NE 2 8 3 Se ETSY e 8 . Sr . . S | , | IS. Re ets 7 7 e * 8 ö 5 but derive one pleaſure from the very Obſcurity 'N A the 25 it treats of, that it 5 of | 2 Tr | ADVERTISEMENT. 7 wil be P ffcient to ſay of this Edition; that the reader has here à much mors correct and compleat copy of the D vu n= Ab, than has hitherto appeared: 1 cannot anſen wer but ſome Miſtakes may have 2 into it, but a vaſt number of others will be prevented, by the Names being now not only et at length, 4 J fon by the authorities and reaſons given. I make no doubt, the Au- #bor's — motive to uſe real rather than fegn ond Hnocent former Editions which had no more than the Initial letters, he was made, by Keys printed here, to hurt the inoffenſroe ;, and { what was worſe ) to abuſe bis F riends, by an impreſſion at Dublin. | The Commentary which attends the Poem, was ſent me from ſeveral hauds, and conſes quently muff be unequally written; yet bone is that it is not made upon chnjedures, or 4 re- note diſtance of time : and the Reader cannot "I | A ADVERTISEMENT. fo be let into, though the Men or the Things be ver ſo inconſiderable or trivial. 3 ' Of rhe Perſons it was judg'd proper to give YZ ſome account for ſince it is only in this monu- ment that they muſt expect to ſurvive, (and bere ſurvive they will, as long as the Engliſh Forgue ſhall remain ſuch as it was in the reigns of Ducen ANNE and King George) Þ it ſeem d but humanity to beffow @ word or to pon each, juft to tell what he was, what bw writ, when he liv d, or when be dyd. 4 word or two more are added upon the bie / Offenders ; tis only as a paper pinn d up- on the breaſt, to mark the Enormities for which they ſuffer'd; 7. the Correction only ſhould be | remember d, ang the Crime forgotten. In ſome "Articles, it was 2 ought ſu efficient * barely to tranſcribe from Jacob, Curl, ans ober writers of their own rank, who were much better acquainted with them that any of 3 #he Authors of this Comment can pretend to be. Moft of them had drawn each other's Characs 3 zers on certain occaſions; but the few here in- ferted, are all that could be ſaved from rhe 4Y e te. deſtruction of ſuch Wile, | 7 Of the part of Scriblerus I need ſay no-: #hing his Manner is well enough known, ans approv d by all but thoſs who are too much con- cer d to be judges, 5 De Imitations of the Antients are 1 1 0 gratiſy thoſe who either never read, or may, | have fo orgotten them; together with ſome of the | "Parodies, and Aue ons to the * . 7 4 = ADVERTISEMEN T. the Moderns. If any man from the frequency V 2 3 J a 0 : e the former, may think the Poem too much a ve Cento; aur Poet will but appear to have done us the ſame thing in jeft, which Boileau did in 2 earneſt ;, and upon which Vida, Fracaſtorius, iſb aud many of the moft eminent Latin Poets pro- he feſſedly valued themſelves . * 8 E [ — } Ez . 2 ; 41 * 7 i 8 "hy : : $ - j 2 DB : 0 ; * 0 "28 * P N 8 * 43 p 5 2 j x * * 5 5 2 8 * s b 8 4 3 S : 2 þ K 3 5 =. 5 1 5 . - £ 2 j 1 0 * 1 4 5 - . * 7 ' . oy > a - 8 , 8 g 1 7 1 y » : . * 4, s . 2 EY J , ; » -As 5 * * 1 4 a : 5 : PUBLISHER, | Occafioned by the preſent od, i . Ul * _ [4 - $2 4 . „ mY X ; 7 A * * 0 = 0 - q 8 * £ 0 2 - K * _ - * 2 . . 8 0 , : \ 1 92 _ . Y & 45 * ; p þ 5 - 2 : Þ - x 4 . . v.7 L 4 0 0 8 * % 4 : a 0 = : { 4 . "7 '# « ( — : ».% T La — bs 6 2 . 5 . * x 25 f A My | 4 - bo 1 a 0 . 5 7 2 7 . 4 ; a Þ 2 7 . » . ” fee £ ; a 4 \ 1 * 7 - 8 7 , x -4 . A N p f / # 4 | ; A * * 3 5 1 T is with Pleaſure J hear that you have e a corfect Edition of the UNCIAD, which the many ſurrepti- tious ones have rendered ſo neceſſary; and it is yet with more, that I am informe work ſo neceſſary, that I cannot think the Author himſelf would have omitted it, had he approv'd of the firſt appearance of this Such _ be attended with a COMMENTARY: „ A y 4} CÞ ' Such Notes as have occurr'd to me I heree 9 with ſend you; you will oblige me by inſert< ing them amongſt thoſe which are, or will are the fruit. — 7 to the PuBIISsHER. be, tranſmitted to you by others: ſince not only the Author's Friends, but even ſtran- gers, appear ingag'd by humanity, to ſomo care of an orphan of ſo much genius and ſpirit, which its parent ſeems to have aban- oned from the very beginning, and ſuffered to ſtep into the World naked, unguarded, and unattended. Ff... 4 It was upon reading ſome of the abuſive papers lately publiſh'd, that my great re- gard to a perſon whoſe friendſhip 1 ſhall e- ver eſteem as one of the chief honours of my life, and a much greater reſpect to Truth than to him or any man living, ingag'd me in Enquiries, of which the inclos d Notes I perceiv'd, that moſt of theſe authors had been (doubtleſs very — the firſt. th Aggreſſors: they had try'd till they were weary, what was to be got by railing at each other; no body was either concern'd, or ſurpriz'd, if this or that Scribler was prov'd a Dunce: but every 6ne was curious to read what could be ſaid to prove Mr. Poet one, and was ready to pay ſomething for ſuch a diſcovery: A ſtratagem which would they fairly own, might not only reconcile them. to me, but ſcreen them from the reſentment of their lawful 4 whom they daily abuſc, only (as _ charitably hope) to get A4 N c — 1 ah i 6a WR: Y- : 1 1 — 2 - \ TI ; | = : : =: ; _ -» 1 2 — . | = | * : : FS X : F * ; | | 1 + 3 2 — them. 8 | T found this was not all: ill ſuccefs in that ther of himſelf, or (what I think he could leſs forgive) of his Friends. They had cal- long before he had either leiſure or inclina- tion to call them Bad Writers: and ſome had been ſuch old offenders, that he had —_— 35 Now what had Mr. PO DE done before to nders, till they were pleas d to revive which are in the hands of every body, in which not the leaſt mention is made of any of them: And what has he done ſince? He Has laugh'd and written the Dux cTA p. truth which the publick had ſaid before, Fooner ſaid, but they themſelves were at ' : hands to the truth of it. Had ſeen any Inclination in my friend to be ſerious with ſuch accuſers, or if they had only attack'd his writings: fince whoever attack d, and in a manner from which nei- —_ } -: ther that by them, which they cannot get from 3 Had tranſported them to perſonal abuſe, ei: Jed men of virtue and honour Bad Men, quite forgotten their perſons as well as their incenſe them? He had publiſh'd thoſe works What has that ſaid of them? a very ſerious that they were dull: and what it had no great pains to procure or even purchaſe room in the prints, to teſtify under their 1 ſhould ſtill have been filent, if either 1 publiſhes, puts himſelf on his tryal by his _ country. But when his moral character was r ee we WS bd © oh. og. - 2 14 * * 8 . : u 8 1 0 4 2 7 . z » lars ny P "SID. een * ” 4 OE Aa 6 a F +, aa oy e 1 FB g Sh r N A. - 2 dev” a, So "Fo $I r CGG ˙ĩͤ˙¹—i·ꝛ— IMs, . LE CCC S 8 242222 ao PR © i ns bs Fo A ee T. FFF . SITY C / to the PuBLIIS RER. ther Truth nor Virtue can ſecure the moſt Innocent, in a manner which though it an- Z nihilates the credit of the accuſation with the juſt and impartial, yet aggravates very much the guilt of the accuſer, (I mean by authors without Names :) Then I thought, | fince the danger is common to all, the con- cern ought to be ſo; and that it was an ack of juſtice to detect the Authors, not only _ on this account, but as many of them are the ſame, who for ſeveral years paſt, have made free with the greateſt Names in Church and State, expos'd to the world the private misfortunes of Families, abus'd all even to 2 Women, and whoſe proſtituted papers (for one or other Party, in the unhappy Diviſis ons of their Country) have inſulted the Fal- ay Friendleſs, the Exiled, and the III. Beſides this, which I take to be a pub= lick concern, I have already confeſs d I had a private one. I am one of that number who have long lov'd and eſteem'd Mr. Popx, and had often declared it was not his Capa- city or Writings (which we ever thought the leaſt valuable part of his character) but the honeſt, open, and beneficient Man, that we moſt eſteem'd and lov'd in him. Now if what theſe people ſay were believ'd, 1 muſt appear to all my friends either a foot or a knave, either impos'd on my ſelf, or impoſing on them: So that I am as much VVV intereſted 10 A LITTER intereſted in the Confutation of theſe calum- A % U . —- 5 I am no Author, and conſequently not to be N either of jealouſy or reſentment « any of the men, of whom ſcarce one agai is known to me by ſight; and as for their writings, I have ſought them (on this one occaſion) in vain, in the cloſets and librarics of all my acquaintance. I had ftill been in the dark, if a Gentleman had not procur'd me (I ſuppoſe from ſome of themſelves, for they are generally much more dangerous friends than enemies) the paſſages 1 ſend you. I ſolemnly proteſt I have added no- thing to the malice or abſurdity of them, which it behoves me to declare, ſince the vouchers themſelves will be ſo ſoon and ſo irrecoverably loſt. You may in ſome mea- ſure prevent it, by preſerving at leaſt their * Titles, and diſcovering (as far as you can depend on the truth of your information) the names of the conceaFd authors. I The firſt objection I have heard made to the Poem is, that the Perſons are too ob- ſcurc for Satyre. The Perſons themſelves, rather than allow the objection, would for- give the Satyre; and if one could be tempt- ed to afford it a ſerious anſwer, were not all aſſaſſinates, popular inſurrections, the inſo- lence of the rabble without doors and of do- = . » Which we have done in a Liſt in the Appendix. No 2. meſticks 1 2 3 . 1 EE RSS. J 725 < Wy * 3 RA #1 #72 40 meeſticks within, moſt wrongfully chaſtized, - Z if the Meanneſs of Offenders indemnifie them from puniſhment? On the contrary, > obſcurity renders them more dangerous, as lleſs thought of: Law can pronounce judg- ment only on open Facts, Morality alone can paſs cenſure on Intentions of miſchief; 2? ſo ch flying in the dark, there is no publick | | expreſſes not the leaſt anger againſt paleneſs that the robbing another of his reputation ſupplies the want of it in himſelf. I queſti- to the PuBL1SHER. By! at for ſecret calumny or the arrow uniſhment left, but what a good writer 248: 3 - N 1 3 7 <4 L 5 ty S 5 « [Y : : 5 - Wo - 3 Is &. 7 0 ' > 7 7 z 7 5 1 7 The next objection ts, that theſe ſort of authors are Poor, That might be pleaded. as an excuſe at the Old 5 crimes than defamation, for tis the caſe of | almoſt all who are try d aily for leſfer 3 there; but ſure it can here be none, ſince no man will pretend on not but ſuch authors are poor, and hear- tily wiſh the objection were removed by any huoneſt livelihood. But Poverty here is the accident, not the fubje&: he who deſcribes malice and villany to be pale and meagre, . or leanneſs, but againſt malice and villany. The apothecary in RoMEo and JULI IE is poor, but is he therefore juſtified in vend- ing poiſon? Not but poverty itſelf becomes a juſt ſubject of Satyre, when it is the con- ſequence of vice, prodigality, or neglect of one's lawful calling; Br then it increaſes; | the publick burden, fills the fireets and 1 gh-ways ) re 4 © ad n = — W 4 D Let A » i . * FSA. ba rer Y W > q \ fs are WEIS 3 Ven of 5 Lf r ] ͤ˙ 11 - «4, ad hat Fa . If fo, the fame of bad authors wauld be ä — charity to encourage them in the way they follow, but to get em out of it: For men * Tings becauſe. they are. bunglers. © : K* thors crying e on the one hand, re. perſons a characters were too ſacred for her, that they are too mean even for Ridi- in this pocm, has mercifally given em a lit "tle of both. or three gentlemen will fall upon one, in an * bark d; they cannot certainly, rr zz n wt Robbers, and the garrets 1 with Clippers, Coiners, and Week] y ** 7 naliſts. 14 But admitting that two or three af; theſe, 2 offend leſs in their morals, than in their wri= tings; muſt povert mike nonſenſe ſacred? | much better taken care of, than that of all the good ones in the world; and not one of 4 hundred had: ever been call d by. his TR They mike the whole matter: It is not are not bunglers becauſe they are poor, but | 7:0 . pe” nme 1 1 1 F * of 1 A — G4: 4d 1 7 * * "a 4 2 oo »* . 5 l 2 » | * . - . 5 and the publick objecting on the KY cule? But whether bread or fame be their end, it muſt be allow'd, our author by and There are two or three, who by their . rank and fortune have no benefit from the former objections (ſuppoſing them good) and theſe Las ſorry to ſee in ſuch compa- ny. But if without any provocation, Wo affair wherein his intereſt and reputation are ; after az to the PuBLiSHER 13 = 1 5 after they had been content to print them r blue: his enemies, complain of being Put | into the number of them. ©, Others, I'm told, pretend to have been i once his Friends ; : Letts they are their ene- 2 mies who ſay fo, ſince nothing can be more de o dious than to treat a friend as they have 1t done: but. of this I can't perſuade my felt ven I conſider the conſtant and eternal a- | verſion of all bad writers to a good one. Buch as claim a merit from being his Ad- mirers, I wou'd gladly ask, if it lays him under any perſona obligation ? at that rate he would be the moſt oblig'd humble ſervant in the world. I dare ſwear, for theſe in par- ticular, he never deſir d them to be his Ad- mirers, nor promis'd in return to be theirs; chat had truly been a ſign he was of their acquaintance; but wou'd not the malicious f | world have ſuſpected ſuch an approbation of ſome motive worſe than ignorance, in the Author of the Ess ANY on CxITICISN? Bei it as it will, the reaſons of their Admi- ration and of his Contempt are equally ſub- aging; for His Works and Theirs are the 3 ver * that they were. 3 ne therefore of their accuſations 1 be- 1 | lieve may be juſt, © That he has a contempt F< for their writings.” And there is ano- x tber which would probably be ſooner al- lowe'd by himſelf; than by any good judge « E | beſide, © That "his own have found! too = much ſucceſs * the . But as 1 "| 5 A oe 555 , . x # 1 2 1-8 © - © Yb l 1 . J %4 —— . Poverty were to 1 a man from Satyre, much more ſhould Folly or Dulneſs, which 7 not help them: Deformity becomes the ob- ject of ridicule when a man ſets up for being - handſome: and ſo muſt Dulneſs when he ſets up for a Wit. They are not ridicul'd be- "cauſe Ridicule in itſelf is or ought to be a - pleaſure; but becauſe it is juſt, to undeceive or vindicate the honeſt and unpretending part of mankind from impoſition, becauſe particular intereſt ought to yield to general, and a great number who are not naturally 7 Fools ought never to be made ſo in come ' Plaiſance to a few who are. Accordingly we find that in all ages, all vain pretenders, were they ever ſo poor or ever ſo dull, have been conſtantly the topicks of the moſt | - candid Satyriſts, from the Cons of Juve= |; NAL to the Damon of BoiLEav. =_ HFaving mention'd Bor LEA, the _ 1 Poet and moſt judicious Critic of his age and country, admirable for his talents, and yet perhaps more admirable for his judg- ment in the proper application of them; 1 Ss - llators perſons of the moſt eminent rank and „ 5 upon them. to the PUBLISHER 15 cannot help remarking the reſemblance be- ſcwixt Him and our Author in Qualities, Fame, and Fortune; in the diſtinctions "Zſhewn to them by their Superiors, in the general eſteem of their Equals, and in their extended reputation amongſt Foreigners; in the latter of which ours has met with the better fortune, as he has had for his Tran- abilities in their reſpective Nations. But the reſemblance holds in nothing more, than in their being equally abus d by the ignorant 2 pretenders to Poetry of their times; of ts which not the leaſt memory will remain but in their own writings, and in the notes made . What BorLEav has done in 2 almoſt all his Poems, our Author has only in this: I dare anſwer for him he will do Fit in no more; and on his principle of 2 attacking few but who had ſlander d him, hie could not have done it at all had he been >confin'd from cenſuring obſcure and worth- deſs perſons, for ſcarce any other were his * . ©: Rs = * w EF al 6 5 VE - * 4 y . * a — —_ * Eflay on Criticiſm in French Verſe by General Ha- milton. The ſame in Verſe alſo by Monſieur Roboton, -; Counſellor and Privy Secretary to King George I. * Rape of the Lock, in French, Paris, 1928. 3 133 In ee 3 = the Abbe Ci, A Noble Venetian; and by the Marquiſs R4 Envo Extraordinary from — to —— * ng 7 Others of his Works by Salvini of Florence, &c. lis Eſſays and vis $728, Fa- Diſſertations on Homer, in French, enemies. 72 . [2 J 6 Wa A LETTER f enemies. However, as the parity is ſo re- markable, I hope it will continue till the laſt; and if ever he ſhall give us an edi- © tion of this Poem himſelf, I may ſee WM ſome of em treated as gently (on their re- pentance or better merit) as Perault and Quinault were at laſt by BOTILEKA Uu. In one point I muſt be allow'd to think | the character of our Engliſh Poet the more amiable. He has not been a follower of Fortune or ſucceſs: He has liv'd with the c reat without Flattery, been a friend to — in Power without Penſions, from whom as he ask'd, ſo he receiv'd no favour but what was done him in his Friends. As his In Satyrs were the more juſt for being delay d, ſo were his Panegyricks; beſtow d only on ſuch perſons as he had familiarly known, on- Wo ly for ſuch virtues as he had long obſerv'd in them, and only at ſuch times as others cCeaſe to praiſe it not begin to calumniate i them, I mean when out of Power or out of _ Faſhion.* A Satyre therefore on writers ſo notorious for the contrary, became no man ſo well as himſelf; as none (it is plain) was — — > * As Mr. Wycherley, at the time the Town declaim'd againſt his Book of Poems: Mr. Wal, after his death: Sir William Trumbull, when he reſign' d the Office of Se- cretary of State: Lord Bolingbroke at his leaving England after the Queen's death: Lord Oxford in his laſt decline of Life: Mr. Secretary Craggs at the end of the South- Sea Lear, and after his death: Others, only in oat” f * 5 * * e 5. * ai RE 4 ] ll NE LOR ² ON w III ron HIT — 8 * £ ” ood G FP * . O_ _ Ku 2 * "3 £ 1 i ic Ts = to the Pu BLISHER 17 o little in Their friendſhips, or ſo much in That of thoſe whom they had moſt abus'd, Famcly the Greateſt and Beſt of All Parties. Net me add a further reaſon, that tho' in- gag'd in their friendſhips, he never eſpous d Whcir animoſities; and can almoſt fingly chal- Wcnge this honour, not to have written a line Pf any man, which thro? Guilt, thro' Shame, For thro' Fear, thro' variety of Fortune, or change of Intereſts, he was ever unwilling . . * 12 * ' 3 TI. ſhall conclude with remarking what a Fpleaſure it muſt be to every reader of hu- manity, to ſee all along, that our Author in his very laughter, is not indulging his own Ill nature, but only puniſhing that of others. To his Poem thoſe alone are capa- ble to do Juſtice, who to uſe the words of 5 a great writer, know how hard it is (with regard both to his Subject and his Manner? VerusrISs DARE NOVITATEM, OBS o- LETIS NITOREM, OBSCURIS LUCEM, _ As TIDITIS GRATIAM I am, & © Your moſt humble Servant, St. ume ps Dec: 22z - 1728 + F a * © m1 < * 2 * L 2 . / ” « 5 „ = 1 - b 4 — n Ss . © 4 * . * . =o * — I : TT FT-- : * F — N * N 4 * — ' : # . * ) b. IS " A * : . * 5 4 , , 8 - * . 0 0 " a \ s & 92 8 0 ; - * - » A * © * N - ? * "% . 1 ww » wt ae 244 n 6 e —— voy — the Town, and their Laws in Execution againſt a Thief or Im- 3 L 18 1 I Cannot but think it the moſt reaſonable | ching in the world, to diſtinguiſh good wri- ? ters, by diſcouraging the Bad. Nor is it an _ 6l-natur'd thing, in relation even to the very 9 perſous upon whom the reflections are made: It is true, it may deprive them, a little the ſooner, of a bort Profit and a tranſitory Re- * Putation But then it may have a good effect, them (before it be too late) to t for which they are ſo very unſi 5 4 and to have recourſe to ſomething in which and obli decline they may be more ſucc "The Perſons whom Boilaau has attack d in his writings, have been for the moſt part Au- #bors, and moſt of thoſe Authors, Poets- , pf Mr. P. 1716. Ts | Gr1.yox, Pref, to his New Rehearſs | 14 A 1 | | | | 1 It is the common cry of the Poetaſfers of autors, that it is an the Pretenders to Wit and Poetry. The Judges and Magi- l- natur d thing to ex reaſon be re- 5 + ſtrates may with full as go 1 with DI-nature, for putting the £2 $I - ſtor — The ſame will hold in the Repub- r — — ck b And the cenſures he hath paſs d upon them have been confirm d by all Europe. Character F OE is) 3 vill let every Enorant rand to Scribs Jing, paſs on the World. IT HEOBALD, Lett. to A 72 Jan. 22, 1728, vri- | Attacks may be levelled, either a gainſt t an Failures in Genius, or againſt the Protea ons A & writing without one. © . 7 Concanen, Ded. to the Auth. of the Daunc. Re A Satyreupon Dulneſ 5, is a thing, that has . 4 been »/ed and allowed in All Ages. Mt, 3 0 ut of thine own Mouth will I Judge = 8 wicked Seribler | —— — Dr 7 —— - : - ——ũ——̃ — — — — — —— 2 tn ee. 6 * RIBLERUS MaxrTtinus Sc 34 OLE Is „ 4 ms GOME „ PR D 6 5 8 9955 r A A . WF” * Ker . — - — 6 N N e " bd. - A - 2 * A 25 ; e 8 8 W r a * 2 n e e N he . 8 7 on N * ; Ll * . * * 5 a D (4 : A OY ; | 4 . of — - 8 . ; z ; : p . % * at CEE - 5K by . . 1 . 4 ; » . N 1 : . l g * 1 | J : N - 0 fl „ DD rere . * F pa 1 "—_—_— . anal — & * . * WR 2 * 0 2 aw acts »» UE IE * " : 8 * F » ²˙ Ä ren ng ren EE EO Oond _ a fs N enn — . ——— eee 1 N —— | . | 2 - — —— — 2 wo, _ "AS TR as — JTESTIM ONIES > ” . OG Sn + VR - 3 ag PU OE TT 9 N 1 . — 1 of PEER ON 2 8 IE” Ry 45 r Ps = IIS 3 . as 4 2 ot " e om F „* e * - - » > NF; 8 ee r n 7 2 1 WY " r T Fe IR GD 6 + * . n 8 . 2 7 | Porr. and his Wokks. (23) oF - UTH 0 K by Concerning our | Maxrinus Sexrmienvs, Leiden 8. E. FOR E we e preſent thee with our Exercitations on the moſt delectable Poem of the Dunciad (drawn from the many volumes of our Adver/aria on modern Authors) we ſhall here, accord- ing to the laudable uſage of Editors, colle& the Wen gments of the Learned con- cerning oet: Various indeed, not on- ty of Fercat authors, but of the ſame au- thor at different ſcaſons. Nor ſhall we ga- ] ther only the Teſtimonials of ſuch eminent Wits as would of courſe deſcend to poſteri- - 05 ad &@ aſequeatly be read without our 1. collection * | — ä— 24 TESTIMONIES I collection; but we ſhall likewiſe with incre- Al.ͤible labour ſeck out for divers others, which ſl but for this our diligence, could never at the 2 i diftance of a few months, appear to the eye 7 of the moſt curious. Hereby thou may ſt dot only receive the delectation of Variety, | but alſo arrive at a more certain judgment, ll by a grave and circumſpect compariſon of | the witneſſes with each other, or of each with himſelf. Hence alſo thou wilt be en- bled to draw reflections, not only of a criti- | cal but of a moral nature, by being let into many particulars. of the perſon. as well as genius, and of the fortune as well as merit, of our Author: In which, if I relate ſome things of little concern peradventure to thee, and ſome of as little even to him; I entreat | thee to conſider how minutely all true cri- = ticks and commentators are wont to inſiſt w pon fach, and how material they ſeem, to themſelves if to none other. Forgive me therefore gentle reader, if (following learned example) I ever and anon become tedious; allow me to take the ſame pain to find whe- ther my author were good or bad, well or 3G all-natured, modeſt or arrogant; as ano- ( ther, whether his were fair or brown, ſhort or tall, or whether he worc a coat or a caſ- f. We purpoſed to begin with his-Life, Pa- rentage and Education: but as to theſe, even 30 his eee eee Tr 0 | * R br > rr Parr Wh 9 + WEN: i if 3 IR 3 «ny - £585, of x" SES." . WS (a) - another 11 to Homer; namely a Dæmon For thus Mr. ſiſt Gidon (50). „Certain it is, that his Orig 8 — * * th 1 diſſecct. | 1 1 ' x] : 4 1 f 7 : b: — — eee args aw * PPP b e 3 „ 1 * 4 1 3 1 Ez 1 * * 7 a 23224 ea n at re = er rt CO AGO EE Bad any education or parents at all? Firſt the moſt Ancient of criticks, < ſomething that is very boyiſh: and inſtead 7, 26 TxzsT1MONnA1 es e tail to be the exact reſemblance of his in- «<< fernal father. Finding therefore ſuch |? contrariety of opinions, and (whatever be ours of this ſort of generation) not being fond to enter into controverſy, we ſhall de- fer writing the life af our Poet, till authors can determine among themſelves what pa- rents or education he had, or whether he Proceed we to what is more certain, his Works, tho” not leſs uncertain the judg- ments concerning them: beginning with his FEss8ay on CRITICISM, of which hear Mir. Joun Dennis. cc His precepts are falſe, or trivial, or < both : his thoughts are crude, and abor- « tive, his expreſſions abſurd, his numbers 4% harſh, and unmuſical, without cadence, or 7 c variety, his rhymes trivial, and common— <« inſtead of majeſty, we have ſomething © < that is very mean; inſtead of gravity, 4 of perſpicuity, and lucid order, we have & but too often obſcurity and confuſion.” 2, And in another place.— What rare Num- 7, « -bers are here? would not one ſwear this youngfter had eſpouſed ſome antiquated 3 a c muſe, who had ſued out a divorce from « ſome ſuperannuated ſinner upon account « of impotence, and who being. poxt by on « her former ſpouſe, has got the ä po * 1 : „ - of Avr HORS. 27 in c her decre 1 age, which make her bobble * L bas he damnably.” (a). No leſs peremptory is ing 4 the cenſure- of our hypercritical hiſtorian do. Mr. OLDMIXON: ors | c I dare not ſay any thing of the Ely pa- e on Criticiſm in verſe; but if any more be c curious reader has diſcover'd i in it ſome- „. thing new, which is not in Dryden's pre- bis cc faces , dedications, and his eſſay on drama- dg- 1 c tick poet not to mention the French cri- 4 ticks; I Hould be very, glad to have the * benefit o the diſcovery.” (6). Flle is followed (as in fame, ſo 2 ment) by the modeſt and fimple-minded er Mr. LsONAXD WZLSTZDF ß 3 Who, out of great reſpe& to our poet not naming him, doth yet glance at his eſſay = {together with the Dake of Buckinghain” „ nine ; | and the criticiſms of Dryden and of Horace, it 8 vhich he more openly taxeth.) ſc) © As to wa 241 1% c the numerous treatiſes, eſſays, arts, &c. have . *< both in verſe and proſe, that have been „ written by the moderns on this ground „work, they do but hackney the ſame thoughts Lat. 1 over * making — {till more trite. che 4 2 5 ated F — — - — (a) Reflections critical and ſatyrical on a rh * _— ount | in Eſſay on Criticiſm. Printed for B. Lintot. dy call t by? on Criticiſm in Proſe, 890. 1728. © Preface to t in Poems, P: 18, 33 Berg "8 | Moſt t 444 11989 17 1 1 1 : F 54 17 0 ; I Y 1 (> 2 * * a Jil 5 * £ 9 * 3V #1 . v. Ja k 8 . A "3 5 1 r of A * 28 TxsrimonIes % Moſt of their pieces are nothing but a £ pert, inſipid heap of common place. Ho- race has even in his Art of poetry thrown * out ſeveral things which plainly ſhew, he de thought an art of poetry was of no uſe, ' << even while he was writing one.” To all 1 authorities We can only oppoſe Mr. Ap DIS OR. :- i e (4) The Art of Criticiſm (ſaith he) « which was publiſhed ſome months fince, isa 4 maſter-piece in its kind. The obſerva- 4 tions follow. one another, like thoſe in H- Nr ce's art of poetry, without that metho- [ 1 ( ( 4 0 « 4 & > ve reader muſt aſſent ta, when he ſees them | © « explain'd with that eaſe and perſpicuity * in which they are delivered. As for thoſe | © c in which they are delivered. As for thoſe 4 which are the moft known and the moſt re- * ceid' d, they are placed in ſo beautiful a a « light, and illuſtrated with ſuch apt allu- 4 ſions, that they have in them all the graces | © &« of novelty - and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, ſtill more F e convinc'd of their truth, and ſolidity. And c 1 here give me leave to mention what Mon- 8 ſieur Boileau has ſo well enlarged upon, 3 cc * Eh I (4) Spettator, Ne. 253. Ho- n he uſe, all he) 18.2 it a * inthe preface to his works: That wit, and (c fine writing, doth not conſiſt ſo much it (s advancing things that are nem, as in giving c things that are æh⁰hοE]m]ẽ an agreeable turn. e Tt is impoſſible for us who live in the lat- „e ter ages of the world, to make obſerva- tions in criticiſm, morality, or any art or RE WR.” . - S: 7<« ſcience, which have not been-touch'd up- 1 « on by others : we have little elſe left us, i but to repreſent the common ſenſe of man- * kind in more ſtrong, more beautiful, or „ more uncommon lights. I a reader ex- C amines Horace's art of poetry, he will. 1 find but few 5 _— in it, which he may not meet with in Ariſtotle; and which were „ not commonly known By all the pects of the Auguſtan age. His way of expreſſing, and * applying them, not his invention of them, e is what we are chiefly to admire. T Lovginas in his reflections has given us „ the ſame kind of Sublime, which he oh- r » 2 Y N r ee . er ras tgp Song lenenet et >» aan ene ons np rr wn n 8 __—_—4 2 «ferves in the ſeveral paſſages that occaſion» - ed them. I cannot but take notice that 27 © our Engliſb Aut 4 hor, Has, after the ſame _ * manner, exemplify d ſeveral of his Pre- 2 © cepts, in the very precepts themſelves.“ He then Ie ſome inſtances of a parti- 2 cular kind of beauty in the Numbers, an z concludes with ſaying, that “there are three. poems in our tongue of the ſame nature, « and each a — its kind; The- verſe, The Eſſay on Eſſay on tranſlate NN Ann = * PIER 3 . = ” AVID —— —_ — * O . * 4 * 5d "4 R 0 Ny Fives rage 166 * #8 8 G —_— Name 706.1006 BY 20249 rene! v=o = — Hex" % a ee 9 — * > - mY 1 6 — 3 * 4 * " 4 - E Wy; - ö — . htc re — 2 re — — — ELIA AS —— N OT OO e „ A ICE RN, CINE. 6 20 TESsTINMORIESA « the Art of Poetry; ; and the Eſſay on J * Criticiſm.” Of WIN DSOR Foxrsr, poſitive is the 4 Magnet of the affirmative | Mr. Joun DRNNTS, 4 That it is a wretched. rhapſody,.7 ec Jently writ in emulation of the Cooper's En ( of Sir John Den bam. The Author of it: i 4 is obſcure, is ambiguous, is affected, is te- & merarigus, is barbarous,” ( But the. ; author of the Diſpenſurx Dr. GAR TY] mn the prefice to his poem of Claremont, differs from this opinion: © 'Thoſe who <« have ſeen thoſe two excellent poems of 4 c Cooper's Hill, and: Windſor-Foreft, the one « by Sir Fobn Denham, and the other by 4 Mr. Pope, will ſhew a great deal of can- SF Of bis EyrisTLE Of ETO TSA, we are b told, by the obſcure Author of a © poem c or's Henry and « /ition to it; but forgot 1 innocence and vir- 3 * . IT tee to B. B. at the * of the remarks. on 20. 3 3 « and 4 Heuer, 1717. .& . 8. pag 12. * *. 66 called Sauney 105. That becauſe Pri- mma charm'd the fineſt < taſtes, our author writ his-EJoiſe, in oppo=. *.81 982 tue. If you: take ney her tender thoughts, 3 are hall it ſuffice to mention the indefatigable b of AUTHORS. 31 on ( and her fierce defires, all the reſt is of no? e yalue: Villa and gardens by the Thames © All; c this is very fine, but take away the river, & and it is good for nothing.” But very con 108 trary hereunto, was the judgment ab. 8 7 himſelf, ſaying in his Auma, (a, | j Thy tale will juſtify this truth. Wich kind concern and skill has weav'd* A ſilken web; and no er ſhall fade 9 75 * . . 8-1 ns | , *WM 1 ; 3 3 : __ - o - = ation + Ip LY 3 + ; : x EL. - LA 8 + A G 1 ; . a | In which,, methinks, his judg- ent reſembled that of a French taylor on a 5 M.-PzxIoB O Mbelard! ill fated youth, But well I weet, thy cruel wrong? Adorns a nobler Poet's fong: © Dan Pope, for thy misfortune griev'd, - - Its colours: gently has he laid The mantle o'er thy ſad diftreſs, | 9 ; And Venus ſhall the texture bleſs, S. Come we now to his Tranſlation of the = Tiran, celebrated by numerous pens, yet: Who (tho? otherwiſe a ſevere cenſurer of ou ſtileth this a laudable trau hat ready wri rer! Sir RI cHARD Blackmore, Kt. (50 In his Eſſays, vol. 1. print- i Mr. — li _—_— (a) Alma Cant. 2. ed for E: Curl. — 32 TZSSTIMONI EHS. Mir. OLDMIXON, - £ommends the ſame. And the painful Mr. LEWIS TRHEOBALID thus extolls it. { b The ſpirit of Homer «..breathes all through this tranſlation.- <« force, and beauty of the language, or the < I find all theſe meet, it puts me in mind « caſe, a mighty ſtone, that two common <« tranſlation, what I once deſpaired to have „ hands.” Indeed the fame gentleman ap- where he fays thus: In order to fink in 4 reputation, let him take it into his head « der, as it will, how the devil he got there) and pretend to do him into Eng- — | - — —— 6) Cenſor, vol. 2. W. 33. In his forementioned Eſſay, frequently | 4 am in doubt, whether I ſhould moſt ad- 4 mire the ju/tne/5 to the original, or the « ſounding variety of the numbers. But when of what the Poet fays of one of his He- * rocs: That he alone rais'd and flung with. 4 men could not lift from the ground; juſt * 4 ſo, one ſingle 1 has performed in this 4 ſeen done by the force of ſeveral maſterlx 5 to have chang'd his ſentiment, in his- Eſay on the Art of ſinking in reputation, to deſcend into Homer (let the world Won « Jiſb, ſo his verſion denote his neglect of . 8 * - CC iS 5 t he 7 = * * EY” ww. \ 3+ . 9 3 I ˙¹ e n . . 1 44 . S NN of AuTnoRs.. 33 e the manner how.“ Strange Variation Þ We are told in FF * Misr's Jovx NAT, June 8. - . That this Tranſlation of the 1/iad, was . *. not in all reſpe&s conformable to the fins s taſte of his friend, Mr. 44diſon. Inſomuch, that he employed a younger muſe, in an te undertaking of this. kind, which he ſuper- c vis'd himmel,. Whether Mr. Addiſon did nnd it conformable to his taſte, or not, beit; the appears from his own teſtimony the ycan Xn following its publication, in theſe words. nd . Ry _— Mr. AppIs ov, Freebolder. Fa“ When T conſider my felf as a Bri- „tis freeholder, I am in a particular man- ſt 4 ner pleaſed with the labours of thoſe who „ have improv'd our language, with the e tranſlation. of old Greek and Lan authors: „We have already moſt of their Hiſto- 2 © rians in our own tongue, and what is more „. for. the honour of our language, it has t been taught to expreſs with elegance the “ greateſt of their Poets in each nation. d. ( the illiterate among our countrymen may =- 2 © learn to judge from Drydeu's Virgil, of the. t. 4 moſt 3 Epic performance. And s thoſe parts of Homer which have been pub- f „ liſh'd already by Mr. Pope, give us reaſon 3 1 p | +2 G02 ® +6; 7 GHISE'S = — — — : 1 9 18 = > x vv 2s , % LE „„ - « to, | (a) Vid. Pref. to Mr. Tickel's Tranſlation of the firſt 3 follows { 24 TESTTMONTEs © to think that the 1;ad will appear in Eng- « Jiſb with as little diſadvantage to that im- & mortal poem.” | As to the reſt, there is a flight miſtake, 4 for this younger Maſe was elder Nor was the gentleman (who is a friend of our au- thor) employ'd by Mr. Aadiſon to tran- flate it . him, ſince he faith himſelf that he did it before. (a) Contrariwiſe, that Mr. Addiſon ingag d our author in | this work, appeareth by declaration there- of in the preface to the [iad, printed ſome © Fears before his death, and by his own Let- declares it his opinion that no other perſon was equal to it. ied, and forget to diſcharge even the dull 4 duty of an editor. In this project let him <« lend the bookſeller his name, (for a com- = — ſum of money tho) to promote the © & credit of an exorbitant ſubſcription.” Gentle reader, be pleas'd but to caſt thine eye on the PRO OSAT below quoted, and on what m OR I EA ee be og Een fe r C 55 2 be r 7 * n > ot Wes 3 I Ire OTST belt DE VASES — C3 G2 ier n Few 8 Dp ig F- 5 Fe A 7 2 0 N 8 E Nr A. n 4 PE AS. ANT A r een * 3 r * 721 * # bolt tr 35 a A - * el W Next comes his SnaxsPEAs on the age. Let him (quoth one, whom I take Mr. TuxogAT D) Mi, March 30, 1728. - publiſh fuch an author as he has leaſt ftu-- * d | —ͤůͤ— Lax . * 3 1 - 38 - AN o Tek.) " „s rous ſubſcription, he imploy of AUuTHoRs. 35 4H lows ſome months after the former aſ- ſertion) in the ſame Journaliſt of June 8. The bookſeller propos d the book by ſub- 4“ ſcription, and frais d ſome thouſands of. 2 for the fame: I believe the gen- 4. tleman did not ſbare in the profits of this „ extravagant Subſcription. . t Aſter the Iliad, he undertook (ſaitimn 1 Mis r's Joux NAT, Tune 8.) . the ſequel of that work, the Oayſſey: and “ having ſecur'd the ſucceſs by a nume ſome Un e derlings to perform what, according to his. % Propoſals, ſhould come from his own 2 hands. To which heavy charge we cam - — - ce (gm truth oppoſe nothing but the words of 4 Mr. Por Es PxoPosALs for the Oprss ET, (printed by J. Watts, 2 10. 1724) 2 s take this occaſion to declare that the S ux 2? < $CRIPTION for SHAKESPEAR belongs * < wholly to Mr. Tonſom > And that the future PE: 2 < Benefitof THis PROPOSAL is not ſolely 7 0 . Imp” eee, TIED . ; 8 = 5 HI IPG, 33 n om aan {os * ' 2 e N 8 " 74 7 . W r 85 CCC ( © extraneous parts 1ho „ for my own uſe, but for that of Tio o = < my Friends, who have aſſiſted me in this- 2 © work.” But theſe very gentlemen are e tolled above our Poet himſelf, by another of. * M's Journals, March 30, 1728, ſaying, that 2 © he would not adviſe Mr. Pope to try the experiment again, of getting a great part of a book done by Pants, leaſt 4 d. unhappily aſcend 5 If any ſay, that before the ſaid Propoſalss were printed, the Subſcription was begun {fame is a Falſhood. SH RS NS RN AAN an!? Unknown the accuſer !- the perſon a- 34 Trwsrruontses N & to the ſublime, and retard the declenſion 5 e“ of the whole.” Behold! theſe Underlings arc become good writers! without declaration of ſuch Aſſiſtance; veri- ly thoſe who ſet it on foot, or (as their term is) ſecur'd it, to wit the Right Ho- nourable the LoRD VIS cOUN T Har * COURT, were he living would teſtify, and the Right Honourable the Loxp B- THURKST now: living doth teſtify, that the 7 Sorry J am, that perſons profeſſing to be b learned, or of whatever rank of Authors, ſhould either falſely tax, or be falſely taxed. || C Yet let us, who are only reporters, be im partial. in our cirations and proceed. MIS r's Jour nar, June 8. J « Mr. Addiſon rais d this Author from obſcurity, obtain'd him the acquaintance and friendſhip: of the whole body of ou. nobility, and 'transferr'd his powerful In- tereſts with thoſe great men to this riſing * Bard, who frequently levied by that means unuſual contributions on the public.. No ſooner was his body lifeleſs, but this author, reviving his reſentment, libelld the memory of his departed: friend, and what was ſtill more heinous, made the ſcandal publick.” Grievous the accuſati- > 8 7 > 3 5 4 e Ly WE: '. > 20 r f 3 . 8 1 4 # Z. ek of AurRoORSG. euſed no witneſs in his own cauſe, the per- "Yon in whoſe regard accus d, dead But if there be living any one nobleman whoſe author; let him ſtand forth, that truth cl may appear! Amicus Pluto, amicus Socrates, lo- ſed magis amica veritas. But in verity * the whole ſtory of the libel is a Tye; * "2 4= 2 veral years before Mr. Addiſon s deceaſe, did =p cd wiſe a libel but a friendly rebuke, ſent pri- be vatel y in our author's-own hand to Mr. Ag „ Aiſon himſelf, and never made publick till by 127. 1727. One name alone which I am authorized here to declare, will ſufficiently e vince this truth, that of the Right Honou- rable the EARL of BURLLNG TN. n- ? Next is he taxed of a crime, (with /ome © © anthors J doubt, more hienous than any in F * morality) to wit plagiariſm, from the inven- tive and quaint=conceited CS 4 4 James Moore SMITH, Gent, a/ Upon reading the third volume of „ e Popes Miſcellanies, I found five lines J ©« which T thought excellent, —_— „ to praiſe them, a gentleman produced a S 31 4 . 44) Daily Journal, March 18. 1728, 37 ſals 3 riendſhip, yea, any one gentleman whoſe. ſubſcription Mr. Addiſon procur'd to our ; Witneſs thoſe perſons of integrity, who ſe- ſiee and approve of the ſaid —_— in ne d. Curl their own bookſeller in his miſcellanies, 4 «© modern comedy (the Rival Modes pub- 4 A des 2". RY _ © liſhed . ˙ y prior P wk, . FAME — een „ 7 — OI * ' 0 . — A. « NAS Cp wr EL * = 3 1 ET” FY TxSTIMONIES 4e liſhed laſt year, where were the ſame vers . < ſes to a tittle, 1 peaking of — "A see how the world its pretty laves rewards! A youth of frolicks, an old age of cards: Fair to no purpoſe, artful to no end; "Young without lovers; old without a friend; A fop their paſſion, but their prize a ſot; . Alive, rididculous; and dead, forgot. it to ſuch abuſe. But being able to obtain ſti- from our author but one ſingle Hint, and the either changing his mind or having more 9 gi= mind than ability, he contented himſelf to nd keep the ſaid memoirs and read them as his ng 7 own to all his acquaintance. A noble per- 75 ſon there is, into whoſe company Mr. Pope ige nd _ hd — — ** 2 „* (a) Daily Journal, April 3, 1728, IEEE EY ; To ONCE o TInsT1monits oF once chanced to introduce him, who well tre. 8 membreth the converſation of Mr. Moore to have turned upon the . contempt he had cc for the work of that reverend prelate, ang < how full he was of a deſign he declared Yet envy ſtill with fiercer rage purſues, 715.0008 > Obſcures the virtue, and defames the _ : I E ſome check to the corruptions f g . evil manners of the times, calls out upon aur? of AvTrons 4 Is alſo i is he decypher'd by the honourable= SIMON HARCOURT.. 4 What laurel d arch, for thy triumphant Muſe ? Tho” each great ancient court thee to his ſhrine, Tho” ev'ry laurel thro* the dome be a | Go to the good and juſt, an awful train? Thy ſoul's delight —— Recorded in like manner for his virtuous: 1 diſ Portions 52 rs bearings by the i W Ar Wa TER Ham; HS - F 9. : * 9 0 "oF * ” 5 8 be. 3 £3 . 6 | TS (505 01 ever er worthy, ever crown'd with N S Bleſf in thy 7ife, and bleft in all thy Jays. Add, that the Sifters ev'ry thought refine... And ev'n thy /ife be faultleſs as thy line. A ſoul like thine, in pain; in grief reſign 1 Views with vain ſcorn the malice of . : Arte witty. and moral Satyriſt 47255 Dr. Epw ARD Tove, * () Poem prefixt to his works. ) In his poem, - ö ee for g. Lint, 42. . poet, to undertake a task ſo worthy of his | virtue. (a) Why flumbers Pope, who leads the Muſes train, Nor hears that virtue, which he loves, complain . To the ſame tune alſo eth that learned | Clerk of Suffolk wh Mr. e MG.” wu Thus, nobly riſing in fair virtus's cauſe, From thy own Jife on; Trot th N e laws. And divers more, with which we. will not. 3 tire the reader... - | ? Let us rather recreate thee by turning to ; the other fide, and ſhewing his — E drawn by thoſe with. whom he never con- vers'd, and whoſe countenances he could not know, tho Turned againſt him: Firſt again. ; 6 commencing with the high-voiced, and never - cuough-quoted ++. Jo un Dzxxrs; Who in his reflections on the Eſſay on cn. 1 ticiſm thus deſcribeth him. I of & A little affected hy ocrite, who has no- : N - «thing in his mouth but candour, truth, J« 4 friendſhip, good nature, humanity, and \« &%: A ya He is ſo great a lover 0 8 of „ ” CIOS 8 8 ; . 2 ads 4—.— * {> Univerſal Paſion Satyr 1. a the end of the a * A 4% a 7 s - . ais ( falſkood; that whenever he has a mind to c calumniate his cotemporaries, he upbraids- tc them with ſome defect which is juſt con- e traty to ſome good quality, for which all their . friends and their acquaintance: commend” 7 * 9 ed ic them. He ſeems to have a particular ** pique to Tags Quality, and authors of- that rank —— He muſt derive his religion e from St. Omer's.”” — But in the character of Mr. P. and his writings, (printed by S. P - tho? he is a Pro- e rulent Papiſt; and yet a Pillar for the (Church of England.” Of: both vMvhich opi- ions. 3 | | MX. TmronaLD” "ſeems alſo to be; .declaring in Mis JonrnaF of Juue 22, 1728: „ That if he is not: . ſhrewdly abus'd, he hath made it his prac.” e tice to cackle to both parties in their own- =<« ſentiments.” But, as to his Pigus againſt⸗ ri prople of quality, the 4% U 752. doth not agree, but ſaith (May 8, 1728.) “ he had no- by ſome means or other the acquaintanc th, 4 and friendſbip of the whole-body of our no- e r of, However contradictory this may appear, Mr. Dennis and Gildon in the character laſt” cited, make it all plain, by aſſuring us: That he is a creature that reconciles all 17 * contradictions; he - a beaſt, and a may 8 - R Werne * * 4 * * — — * * = Yo 3 2 2 > . - \ 1 | : 4 2 „»„ . „„ 7. ns CO 002 JOAN CE PO ——_ * — * | - | Ka at 3 —— 8 2 ee gy, 9, «a Whig, and a Tory, a writer (at one and. the ſame time) of Guardians and Exami- p 5 it TESTINONIES WES 6 ners; an aſſertor of liberty, and of the & difpcnſingpowerot kings; a jeſuitical pro- cc feſſor of truth, a baſe and a foul preten- c der to candour. So that, upon the whole account, we muſt conclude him either to have been a great eier or a very honeſt man; a terrible impoſer upon both parties, or very moderate to either. * * Be it, as to the judicious reader ſhall ſeem one declares he ought to have a price ſet good. Sure it is, he is little fayour'd of cer- tain authors; whoſe wrath is perillous : For (e c bis head, and to be hunted down as (4 a. wild beaſt; Another expreſly, that it will be well if he gcape with his life : (a) One de- res hg wou'd cut his own throat or hang 21 5 92 Paſquin ſeem'd rather inclined 5 ou'd be done by the government, repre- ſenting him ingag d in grievous deſigns with a Lord of Parliament, then under proſecu- tion: (c) Mr. Dennis himſelf hath written to a-Minifter, that he is one of the moſt dange- vous perſons in this kingdom. (d) A. third DD. ** | . # 2 £ 9 's „ gives information of Tregſon diſcover d in his. % 3 6 ( ( Theobald, Letter in Miſt's Journal, ume 22, 1728. d Smealey, Pref. to Gulliveriana, p. 16. (5) Gullive- 3d « Nana, P1332. (©) Anno 1723, _ (4) This preſent, 1 — 8 Do 5 -- v4 = , . F4 : N o - je > 5 ; - - . p . 7 . * 7 T 8 L 2 N 1 , : 2 » « # „ 9 - * * 3 9 25 » . * 1 + - „ * - 1 5 » 9 ho.” » - * Ir) x — — © "IE; o 1 . ; 4 2 . = N "F . * ” ” PI - » IT 5 8 „ 5 of AuTuonrs © 4&4 poem: (a) Mr. Curl boldly ſupplies an ir perfect verſe with Kings and Princeſſes ; GY and another yet bolder, publiſhes at length the Two moſt SacxED Names in this Na- tion as members of the Dunciad. (5) This is prodigious! yet is it no leſs ſtrange, that in the midſt of theſe invectives his ene mies have (I know not how) born teſtimony to ſome merit in ihm 3 - Mr. TuzoB ALD; 8 8 3 be We * J 5 8 * 9 FF 2 2 8 4 < . a veneration aimoft riſing to Taolatry for the e vritings of this inimitable poet, he would. e be very loth even to do him juſtice, at the, e expence of that other gentleman's charac F< ter (g). PEE Mf. Cxaxrtes Gilvo, Aſter having violently attack'd him in ma- ny pieces, at laſt came. to with from his 4 We f yu | ” ; 1 PS yo" _ „ hs * ——— - > 10 * - "8 (.) pag. 6, 7. of the Preface to a Book intitled, a Col- — tion of all. the Letters, Eſſays, Verſes, and Advertiſee- ments, occafion'd by Pope and Scvift's Miſcellanies, print- ed for A. Moore, $40, 1728. (55) Key to.the.Dunc. ve- zd edit. p. 18. (e) A Lift of perſons, c. at tha u. end of the foremention' d Collection of all the Letters, fe, e. ) Introduction to his Shakeſdear re-, end inguarto, P. 3. | * * 0 | | 8 5 : F . a ; ; 4 e . «Ä ̃ ͥ,! . 7§ ,] ee a at. A. tne —']))“)“rn — — — ——ꝓ— ʃ ⁊ñ ——̃ꝛ — —ü—ũ———— 22 — — ATA GREED UID EST keartz, as: TasTiMONIES: heart, © That Mr. Pope wou'd be prevailed upon to give us Ovid's Epiſtles by his cc hand: for it is certain we ſee the original 5 & of Sapbo to Phaon with much more life .< and likeneſs in his verſion, than in that of _ « Sir Car Scrope. And this (he adds) is tge * more to be wiſh'd, becauic i in the Engliſh: & tongue we have ſcarce an thing N and. “ naturally written upon ove ( ©) He alſo, in taxing Sir Richard Blackmore. for his Heterodox opinions of Homer, challengeth. | him to anfwer what Mr. Dope hath ſaid in his preface to that Poet. One who takes. | | . of. ke. H. $5 anzors.. the maker of certain verſes to Duncan Cotoge- 1 bell (b), in that poem which is WY a. ſatyr: F, on Mr. Pope, confeſſeth, "Tis true, if fineſt notes alone could ſhow (Tun'd juftly high, or regularly low) | That we ſhould fame to theſe meer vocals give; Pope, more than we can offer, ſhould receive: For when ſome gliding river is his thgeme, | is lines run —— than the ſmootheſt — Gr. 8 . — hy *, 23 re —_— Ca ang uy _ * 2 4 Vr, (a) deer on the Duke of eos 8 Eſſy, 1 geo. 1721, p. 97, 98. ( Printed 3 the Title ef the Progreſs af Dube, 129 * 5 3 2 N 5 EA T 8 * # of AUTHORS: 2 Mr. THOMAS Coors, : : Alter much blemiſhing our author! s Hime - i crieth out, Ae. | But i in his 1 works al beauties ſkine ? While-ſweeteſt Muſic dwells in ev'ry line. Theſe he admir'd, on theſe he ſtamp'd his praiſe; | And bade them live to brighten future days (4). - MisT's Journal, June 8, 1728. = Altho' he ſays, the ſmooth Numbers of „the Duncia. are all that recommend it, „nor has it any other merit,” Yet in that ſame paper hath theſe words: e. The author i « is allowed to be a perfect maſter of an. “. eaſy, and elegant verſification: In all bis « works, we find the moſt happy turns, and 14 natural | ſimilies wonderfully ſhort and. 7 © thick oda. The Eſſay on the Dunciad alſo owns, pag. 2 $+ it is very full of beauti=- Lal Imager Mr. I 170 nu Dannrs: in the moſt furious of all their works, (the 1 forecited Character, p- 5-)- do jointly con feſs, © That ſome men, f goo 5 — „ ig, value him for his rhymes: | 72 | yr: |. hee | Pag: 17. That he has gots. like N 2 111 ? 2 is "26 md of Poets, fil pe 5 15. 8 TFTxsTimonins f ce in the Rehearſal, (that is like Mr. Dryden) «© a notable knack of rhyming and writing «ſmooth verſe.” „ To the Succef5 of. all. his pieces, they do unanimouſly. give teſtimony :* But it is ſuffi- cient, irftar.omnium, to behold this laſt great _ Eritick ſorely lamenting it, even from the- © E ſſay on Criticiſm. to.this. Day of the Dun- ciad I. A moſt notorious inſtance! (quot | ec he) of the depravity of genius and taſte,, * « « the Approbation this Efay meets with (a)! «'—I can ſafely affirm, that I never attack d [1 ? “ any of theſe writings, unleſs they had Sp ,. infinitely beyond their merit ( » © * i * FI 8 v — 7 4 2 1 PPP — TS w " - — 34 A at, 44. — r * —— — —— — ce ce jo: = tho an empty, has been a popular cc ſcribler : The Epidemie madneſs of the 4 times has given him reputation. (c) - If after « the cruel treatment ſo many extraordinary o men n Ben. Fohnſon, Mil. y. « fon, Butler, O. Otway, and others) have receiv- 0 cc ed from this country, for theſe laſt hun- F. _« dred years; 1 ſhou'd ſhift the ſcene, and 1 ſu <« ſhew all that penury chang'd at once to In <« riot and profuſeneſs: and (4) more ſquan- mc — — F FL CA (a) Dennis Pref. to the Reflett. on the Eſſay on Crit. [| 0 (3) Pref. to his Rem. on Homer. © (e) Ibid. (d) Whats ze this vaſt ſunt was, Mr. DE Ns himſelf in another place 1 informs us (pref, to his Remarks on the Rape of the Lock, p. 15.) to wit, f hundred a year. Whereby we ſes , how great he ſuppoſed the moderation of thoſe extraor- | no, who lad ot himſelf) 1.1, F_ Dne hundred pounds a year, I think wou d do 1 of NN e, if fingle ww Or if marm d, tao. 3 By we, Tele Or if 7 5 g 2 | « der'd s i 3 2 1 * We = 2 +. — c 1 * 25 y S 8: * der'd ny upon one obje# than wou'd y ( qualities of theſe perſons were centred “ in him alone — But if I ſhould ven- ( ture to aſſure him, that the PRO ILE of „ ENGLAND had made ſuch a choice The reader would either believe me a ma- „ licious enemy, and /landerer 5 or that the = © reign of the laſt (Queen Ann's) Miniſiry, ( vas deſign'd by fate to encourage Fools (a). 7 quaint us of certain works in a leſs degree of repute, whereof (altho' own'd by others) yet do they aſſure us he is the writer. Of this 9 ſort Mr. 1 | Farces, whoſe names he does not tell, but aſ- ſures us there is not one jeſt in them; and an Imitation of Horace, whole title he does not ment ion, but aſſures us, it is much more exe- = crable than all his works 00 The Darzy js below Tom Durfey in the Drama, becauſe (as that writer thinks) the Marriage Hater „ match'd, and the Boarding Scho are bet- = (e) CharaR, of Mr. P. p. 7. 71 ba 1 of AuTHoRs 49 « have fſatisty'd the greater part of thoſe « extrordinary men: The reader to whom « this one creature ſhould be unknown, « wou'd fancy him a prodigy of art and na- « ture, would believe that all the great However, left we imagine our Author's Succeſs was conſtant and univerſal, they ac- ENNIS aſcribes to him () Two JouRNATL, May 11, 1728. aſſures us, © he ——— (a) Rem. on Hom. p. 8, 9. (5) Rem. on Hom. p-8.- . ." © an DDr oy a6 50 Tzsrimoxiss 9 4 ter than the What dye call it; Which is not Mr. P's but Mr. Gays. Mr. GrlLDoNW aſſures us, in his New Rehbearſal print- ed 1714, pag. 48, that he was writing a 4“ Play of the Lady Jane Gray; But it al- terwards prov'd to be Mr. Row's. The fame Mr. Gildon and Dennis aſſure us, he < wrote a pamphlet called Dr. Andrew Tripe ; © 4a) which prov'd to be one Dr. Hag flags. Mr. Tye0BALD aſſures us, in Mit of the * 27th of April, © That the treatiſe of the <« Profund is very dull, and that Mr. Pope is < the author of it: The writer of Gulli- veriana is of another opinion, and ſays, “ the < whole or greateſt part of the merit of this 4c treatiſe muſt and can only be aſcribed to % Gulliver (S). | Here gentle reader cannot I || © but ſmile at the ſtrange blindneſs and poſi-⸗-- tiveneſs of men, knowing the ſaid treatiſe to appertain to none other but to me, Martinus * Laſtly we are aſſured, in Mit of June 8. „ That his own Plays and Farces would bet- c ter have adorn'd the Dunciad, than thoſe { 4 .of Mr. Theobald : for he had neither ge- r „ .nius for Tragedy, or Comedy: Which g whether true or not, is not eaſy to judge; I in as much as he hath attempted neither. 1 But from all that hath been ſaid, the diſ- cerning reader will collect, that it little a- * A 5 a * 2 K HO” Wa —_—_— » „ 8 Fs PIE { wv q 2 4 vaild $ 105 5 4 ( Ibid. P-6. (5) Galliveriana, p. 336. femme — wg « 0 + 78 } Modefty, fince when he declin d writing in any . - 1 3 * 3 for 7 - ok eee wt 5 ee ® > 2 N 2 a. r * TOY * 2 . * — — 3 . Fl 5 1 n e e * bc a * F 2 1 n n 7.4.5 * „ ent . N WF: 6/5 oo I vg TCC HE PAIT SL ERCY IO. TR. * — we) p a - —_ - - 8 ** 7 N . m — 3 = D ] 2 + © do PZ = 8 2 — = 2 =4 + S 77 D D repreſented as a 1 injury to the public. Icroicks, the loweſt ballads, — ̃ EINER — — — thors, ſquabbles with bookſellers, or even full and true accounts of monſters, poyſons, and murders: of any hereof was there no- thing ſo good, nothing ſo bad, which hath not at one or other ſeaſon been to him aſcri- bed. If it bore no author's name, then lay he concealed; if it did, he father d it o that author to be yet better concealed. If it 8. reſembled any of his ſtyles then was it evi- et- dent; if it did not, then diſguis'd he it on —_— n * gr —U — — w «4 us MN nt err —gU oſe ſet purpoſe. Yea, even direct oppoſitions in ge- religion, principles, and politicks, have e- ach } qually been ſuppoſed in him inherent. Sure- ge; ly a moſt rare, and ſingular character! of 1 which let the reader make what he can. 1129 SE | | a- g 905 P — —— OI IIS — pe RS IE . WED 4 1 6 Wo * 2 N 7 3 — * p , 8 = (a) Burnet Homerides, p. 1. of his Trarflation of the — Tad (5) The London, aud Miſt's Journals, on his Undertakiny of the Och ſſey. 4 wr „ Doubtleſs Senn 2 I - a PP A ES EO ADIOS OM TOY Zi 2 . r Gy" Sora. | 1 I 4 5 e K J 5g Fane th — . n 7 MEM ld * RE IT IO I WIPE, ers a 3 * 8 e n eee 52 TESTIMONIEsS Doubtleſs moſt Commentators wou'd henee take occaſion to turn all to their author's ad- vantage; and from the teſtimony of his very enemies wou'd affirm, That his Capacity was boundleſs, as well as his Imagination; That He was a perfect maſter of all Styles, and all Arguments; And that there was in thoſe times no other writer, in any kind, of any © degree of excellence ſave he himſelf, But as this is not our own ſentiment, we ſhall de- termine on nothing ; but leave thee, gentle reader! to fteer thy judgment equally be- tween various opinions, and to chuſe whe- |: cher thou wilt believe the 'Teſtimonies of | thoſe who knew him, or of thoſe who knew Aim not. 2 „ Man | JJ!.üöͤĩ?k5: 0 OOO We » © "N 8 2 by 1 ro, 1h Pl.” 815 £4 x <5 Re £4 * 3 * 1 5 2 OS (1 3 I appeareth to have been, MARTIN US SCRIBLERUS, 7 p O E M. moſt grave and antient of things, Chaos, Night and Dulneſs, ſo is it of the moſt grave and antient kind. Homer, (faith Ari otle) was the firſt who gave -: Meaſure, to heroic poeſy. But even before this, may be rationally preſumed from what the antients have left written, was a ey | whe the Form, and (ſaith Horace) who adap N1ece by Homer compoſed, of like nature and matter. with this of our Poet. For of Epic ſort it. ct of. matter. ſure- I) not unpleaſant, witneſs what is reported v2.1 of 3 by the learned Archbiſhop Euftathius,, In 2 poetic, chap. 4. doth further ſet forth, that as the Ttia4 K. And accordingly. Ariſtotle in his and Odyſſey gave example to. I | Tragedy, ſo did this poem to Comedy its: art Jan. II. From theſe authors alſo it ſhou'd ſeem, | that the Hero or chief perſonage of it was: E 4 * . : ö EY _— — — — " ——— — & P * — e 440 CO IS PAO F BY \ of br DIS: oe " 2 83 : erer e 5 N W HIS Poem, as it celebrateth the Sarge beer —— —»—V— 1 Ld £ NY \ — —ͤ ũ—„— rr r q 4 2. 5 r r . = gd oe ad ane + rs at: oe Ad ea — * 2 0 - * n — 4 = 14-4 ; r Re roy * 2 . ] de _ - 3 rr — a bt, So N „ AS 1 re * n - E ”Y 2 2 ͤ—•U[—nèn n oo teen” a fe — CO —— py poop g 2 n 54 M. ScrIBLERUS I no leſs ohſcure, and his underſtanding and ſen- timents no leſs quaint and ſtrange Gf indeed not more ſo) than any of the actors in our " poem. MarciTEs was the name of this = erſonage, whom Antiquity recordeth to = ave been Dunce the Feſt; and ſurely from what we hear of him, not unworthy to be the root of ſo ſpreading a tree, and ſo nu- merous a poſterity. The poem therefore celebrating him, was properly and abſolute- ly a Dunciad; which tho' now unhappily | loſt, yet 1s 1ts nature ſufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforeſaid. And thus 1t doth appear, that the firſt Dunciad was the firſt Epic poem, written by Homer himſelf, | and anterior even to the Iliad or Odyſley. Now foraſmuch as our Poet had tranſlated | thoſe two famous works of Ehmer which are yet left; he did conceive it in ſome ſort his duty to imitate that alſo which was loſt: And was therefore induced to beſtow on it the ſame Form which Homer's is reported to have had, namely that of Epic poem, with 4 a title alſo framed after the antient Greek manner, to wit, that of Dunciad. 1 Wonderful it 1s, that ſo few of the mo- derns have been ſtimulated to attempt ſome | Dunciad ! Since in the opinion of the mul- titude, it might coſt leſs pain and oil, than an ' Imitation of the greater Epic. But poſſible it is alſo that on due reflection, the maker might find it eaſier to paint a Charlemagne, a Brute or a Godfry, with juſt pomp, and dig- | PO IS, . 8 „ Ou I-77 x WELH n „ On 2 1 Sed on 8 . WARE : n ts 1 SME A © 0 Os pag * 7 * - 0 * 3 n ES e ** = LE wy LY * by F 1 5 3 B n of the Po RM. 55 nity heroic, than a Margites,, a. Codrus, * Flecknoe, or « . 7· WW 7 We ſhall next declare the occaſion and the cauſe which moved our Poet to this particu- lar work. He lived in thoſe days, when (after providence: had permitted the Inven-- tion of Printing as a-ſcourge for the Sins of the learned) Paper alſo became ſo cheap, and printers ſo numerous, that a deluge of au- thors cover'd the land: Whereby not _ the peace of the honeſt unwriting ſubje was daily moleſted, but unmerciful demands- were made of his _— yea of his- mo—- neither earn the one, ney, by ſuch as wou or deſerve the other: At the ſame time, the Liberty of the Preſs was ſo unlimited, that it grew dangerous to refuſe them either: For they would forthwith. publiſh ſlanders unpuniſh'd, the authors being anonymous; nay the immediate publiſhers thereof lay ſculking under the wings of an Act of Par- thr aſſuredly intended for better pur- oſes. e 1 E Now our author living in thoſe times, did conceive it an endeavour well worthy an ho- © neſt ſatyriſt, to diſſuade the dull and puniſh the malicious, e only way that was left. In that public-ſpirited view he laid the plan of this Poem, as the greateſt ſervice he was ca- capable (without much hurt or being ſlain} to render his dear country. Firſt, taking things from their original, he conſidereth the Cauſes creative of ſuch authors, namely E44 Dulneſs as > " . 2 ” * ” ©. — = 2 — . "ID — 2 * ** 28 Sat > S * 93 4 4 r 1 28 C ĩ%⅛˙ĩé:e: . .—.˙·˙·ꝛͤʃœʃr—˙õ˙ 2-5 12 > pes a — 86s M. ScaI M EAuvs Dulneſs and Poverty; the one born with them, the other contracted, by neglet of 1 their proper talent thro? ſelf conceit of great: er abilities. This truth he wrapp'd in an Mllegory (as the conſtitution of Epic poeſy requires) and feigns, that one of theſe God- deſſes had taken up her abode with the o- ther, and that they jointly inſpir d all ſuch writers and ſuch works. He proceedeth to ſhew the gualities they beſtow on theſe au- thors, and the ed they produce: Then the materials or lock with which they furniſh them, and (above all) that /2}f-opinion which cauſeth it to ſeem to themſelves vaſtly great- er than it is, and is the prime motive of their ſetting up in this ſad and ſorry mer- chandize. The great power of theſe God- dieſſes acting in alliance (whereof as the one is the mother of induſtry, ſo is the other of plodding) was to be exemplity'd in ſome one, great and remarkable action. And none cou'd be more ſo than that which our poet hath choſen, the introduction of the loweſt diver- fions of the rabble in Smithfield to be the en- tertainment of the court and town; or in other words, the Action of the Dunciad is the Removal of the Imperial ſeat of Dul- neſs from the City to the polite world ; as that of the /Eneid is the Removal of the empire of Troy to Latium. But as Homer, ſinging only the Frath of Achilles, yet in- _ cludes in his poem the whole hiſtory of the Trojan war, in like manner our author hath - : | drawn gy nee S a 7 * 8 „„ TO LED 92 ( E 4 3 . * 1 * T9 12 3 „ _—=_ er 4 . wer” 2 tended thro” her ſubordinate inftruments, in end ſhe is repreſented at the very opening of the poem, taking a view of her forces, which are diſtinguiſh'd into theſe three kinds, Party writers, dull poets, and wild. eriticcks. A Per/on muſt be fix'd upon te this action, who (to agree with the ſaid de- $ ſign) muſt be ſuch an one as is capable of being all three. This phantom in the poet's mind, muſt have a name He ſeeks for one who hath been concerned in the Journals, * written bad Plays or Poems, and. publiſhed low Criticiſms : He finds his name to be 2 bald, and he becomes of courſe the Hero of the æ e... | pres The Fable being thus according to beſt ex- ample one and entire, as contain'd in the propoſition z the Machinary is a continued chain of Allegories, ſetting forth the whole power, miniſtry, and empire of Dulneſs, ex- all her various operations. | This is branched into Epiſodes, each of which hath. its. Moral apart, tho' all condu- '2 clive to the main end. The crowd aſſembled in the ſecond book demonſtrates the deſign to be more extenſive than to bad poets only, and that we may expect other Epiſodes, of the Patrons, Encouragers, or Paymaſters of ſuch authors, as occaſion ſhall bring them forth. And the third book, if well conſi- | dcr'd, ſeemeth to embrace the whole world. Each 1 ef the en! op 7 drawninto this ſingle action the whole hiſto- ry of Dulneſs and her children. To this Nee e Res th FEISS rn CI EE WRT Hs —— ge ——— — — 5 — — IAFAÄFÄAÿ6A ˙ ů-—. g:ůͥmůuieWi dr 553 — 1 4 2» — * * 8 F R W * 2 3 * 58 M. SCRIBLERUS | Each of the Games relateth to ſome or other vile claſs of writers. The firſt concerneth every portrait, his own excepted. the Plagiary, to whom he giveth the name of More; the ſecond the libellous Novelliſt, whom he ſtyleth Eliza; the third the flat- tering: Dedicator; the fourth the bawling Critick or noiſy Poet; the fifth the dark and dirty Farty-writer; and ſo of the reſt, * aligning to each ſome proper name or other, 1 fuch as he cou'd find. As tor the Characters, the publick hath already acknowledged how juſtly ny are drawn: The manners are ſo depicted, and the ſentiments fo peculiar to thoſe: to whom applied, that ſurely to transfer them to any other, or wiſer, perſonages, wou'd be ex- ceeding difficult. And certain it is, that every perſon concerned, being conſulted apart, will readily own the reſemblance of he Deſcriptions are ſingular; the Com- pariſons very quaint; the Narration various, yet of one colour. The purity and chaſtity of Diction is ſo preſerved, that im the places moſt ſuſpicious not the words but only the images have been cenſured, and yet are thoſe images no other than have been ſanctified by antient and claſſical authority (tho? as was the manner of thoſe good times, not ſo curiouſly wrapped up) yea, and commented upon by | moſt grave doors, and approved criticks. As it beareth the name of Epic, it is thereby ſubjected to ſuch — ar [| . - rules . * 0 +8 12 is i A i DF © £41508 1 273 2 pt . 7 8 1 BET: : \ of the PoE M. 39 r rules as arc laid on all Neotericks, a ſtrict h 2 imitation of the antient; inſomuch that any deviation accompanied with whatever 2 t, baauties, hath always been cenſured by the - ſound critick, How exact that Imitation hath been in this piece, appeareth not only by its general ſtructure, but by particular al- luſions infinite, many whereof have eſcaped both the commentator and poet himfelf; yea divers by his exceeding diligence are ſo alter'd and interwoven with the reſt, that feveral have already been, and more will be, by the ignorant abuſed, as altogether and originally his own. 7 „ 5 In a word, the whole poem proveth itſelf to be the work of our Author when his fa- culties were in full vigour and perfection: at that exact time of life when years have ripened the judgment, without diminiſhing the imagination; which by good criticks is held to be punctually at forty. For, at that ſeaſon it was that Virgil finiſhed his Greorgics; and Sir Richard Blickmore at the like age compoſing his Arthurs, declared the ſame to be the very Acme and pitch of life for Epic poeſy: tho! ſince he hath altered it to /ixty, 4 bY, the Year in which he publithed his A red. True it is, that the talents for Criti= _ ciſm, namely ſmartneſs, quick cenſure, viva- city of remark, certainty of aſſeveration, in- cd * — — * le | ET (a) See his Eſſay on Heroic poetry. + es I deed = = = == — = = REI — — — 8 — — — - = \ \ \ „ c rr — PER wm g 33 * 5 3 U ³. ˙— 11 ˙ ] TR; ä 8 * * TP * SE On St EE * N 4 66 3 RAR lr e gn: e IE chro rcthelth 206 2-48 EK y RIF > WR x) g 0 L hd ho, 8 —— N « 2 * - e 2 = _ pe ———_ 1 enn N — of ————— v 22 ——— A GIN ts ws „ YR ö . I . * 2 A ä — ere r N * + \ Jay MED 9 * 4 — Sen . Br * - 4 P * —— e "I N * * mn TEAS 7 Ly 8 * 3 af on + = 44/2 965 1 * 2 — = Y oy Eos — — — "+ CEE 8 > woe $ = * b wu” Fr $9 ey Sr * On . re NAN fg L P/N? P 8 * — ; 60 M.SerrBreRVS | deed all but acerbity, ſeem rather the gifts of Youth than of riper age: But it is far otherwiſe in Poetry; witneſs. the works of Mr. Rymer and Mr. Dennis, who beginning with criticiſm, became afterwards ſuch Poets as no age hath parallel d. With good reaſon therefore did our author chuſe to write his Eſſay on that 3 at twenty, and reſerve r his maturer Years, this great and won= derful work of the Dunciad- 3 Dunciados a mem — | —— —— — o 2 : . * 2 bow £1 £ 5 1 3 9 : N . - 4 * . « FF F . 4 2 = : SE 7 x 6 5 $ — * 4 tt b . t g 5 175-88 F 2 14 a” . . % } 8 8 fy - 4 * * _ þ Fig * . ; s " * on ” - * * LY . * 1 285 1 FE 5 F . 4 « . +} 25 7 4 A 1 . « p 1 3 34 ; 5 1 F 4 . * Y 5 1 3 « - * 8 5 k : Ki i BE . : . P ys 4&4 ' $94.50] 1 - 127 . 1 85 8 f . : — > k = i — we TO THE _ _ Book the Firs T. The Invocation, and the Inſcri tion. Then the Original of the great empire of Dulneſs, and cauſe of the continuance thereof. The beloved |, ſeat of the Goddeſs is deſcribed, with her chief attendants and officers, her functions, operations, and effects. Then the poem haſts into the midſt of things, preſenting her on the evening of a Lord Mayor's day, re- volving the long ſucceſſion of her ſons, and the glories paſt, and to come. She fixes her eye on Tibbald to be the inſtrument of that HE. Propoſition of the ſubject. „„ VI . — ER" — * n 3 — — — * + "7 8 2 —_ Kea OI Ie "II Feta Fe rw re „ 72 — — * * * ——— — . : OF 2 3 „ eK : r . , 4 4 * if PU $4 1 5 8 3 — x. * "eee by . y Ws 8 To Ou. "7 oy 18 e 1 88 2 - 4 1 „ e, po 4 3 8 8 = 2 02, 7 + * * END 12 29 4 4 - {57 YA IL SE Pani 4 2 * — — 8 * iy wb A _————— ² ͤ¹dl x - x * A * LOBES. AS > 1 5 e 5 2 Y we N 2% 2% 22 i EU = IPL Hed, POE $ 3 4 . 1 n — A 4-41 nee ot » . 4 —=S 37 2 2 11. — 2 r , = 1 rr 2 —— TIE 2 : — WH. 2 er tr Le antie) er — _ a N on —: CTIA” EMAAR: PD | 2 WW tn 5 2 TIJ. Ds 8 7 5 * 4 4 * » I Kao It Er oo ns W whiy 3 W . 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She torthwith reveals her ſelf to him, tranſports him to her Tem- ple, unfolds all her arts, and initiates him in- Þ to her myſteries; then announcing the death of Settle that night, anoints, and proclaims Qiim Succeſſor. Boox the SE cob. PE. oY WP EO a ma ro 8 HE King being proclaimed, the ſo- 1 lemnity 1s graced with publick Games and ſports of various kinds; (not inſtituted by the Hero, as by Zneas in Virgil, but for greater honour by the Goddeſs in perſon; in |: like manner as the games Pythia, If hrnia, Ec. Were anclently ſaid to be by the Gods, | and as Thetis herſelf appearing according to | Homer Odyſſ. 24. propoſed the prizes in ho- nour of her ſon Achilles. 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There he is met by the ghoft of Settle, and by him made ac- uainted with the wonders of the place, and with thoſe which he is himſelf deſtin d to perform. He takes him to a Mount of Vis. | ſion, from whence he ſhews him the paſt tri- | umphs of the empire of Dulneis, then the | preſent, and laſtly the future. How ſmall |. a part of the world was ever conquered by 7 Science, how foon thoſe conqueſts were ſtop'd, and thoſe very nations again reduced to her dominion. 'Then diftinguiſhing the Iſland of Great Britain, ſhews by what aids, and by what perſons, it ſhall be forthwith brought to her empire. Theſe he cauſes to paſs in review before his eyes, deſcribing each by his proper figure, character, and qualifica- tions. On a ſudden the Scene ſhifts, and 2 vaſt number of miracles and prodigies ap- Dear, utterly ſurprizing and unknown to the ing himſelf, till they are explained to be the wonders of his own reign now commen= eing. On this ſubject Sez7/e breaks into a con- gratulation, yet not unmix'd with concern, | that his own times were but the types of | theſe; He prophecies how firſt the nation | mall be over-run with farces, opera's, _—; . ˙ lene agen 6 wires wee S * * ff Ip oy — 8 =_ . — ns \ — — r 3 . LY; 20a r N 8 | 4 es » 4 e ks JE EST." 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* 14 11 2 - —— — - — Oy 3 . ons OAT ͤͤÄRů-w N as od — : R * 1 Bat | 2 wane. * — v „„ W + „ pom rr SE 2 ts r — e > 8 ge + _ Fr — * e . * — 70 The Du Nx clAD. Book . Say great Patricians! (ſince your ſelves inſpire Theſe wond'rous works ; ſo Jove and Fate require) | Wreign Termination, 7s no way proper to 2 word entirely Englim; N and Vernacular. One E therefore in this caſe is right, and two E Wrong; yet upon the whole I ſhall follow the Manuſcript, and = be it withour any E a: all; mov'd thereto — Authority, at all times with Criticks equal if not ſuperior to Reaſon, In which method of proceeding, I can never enough praiſe my very good Friend, the ex- act Mr. Tho. Hearne , who, if any word occur which to him and al] mankind is evidently wrong, yer keeps he it in the xeverence, and only remarks in the Margin, ſic M. S. In like manner we ſhall not amend this error in the Title itſelf, but only note it bi- ter, roEvince tothe learned that it was not our fault, nor any effect of our own Ignorance or Inattention. | ” | 0 SCRIBLERUS, VERSE 1. Books and the Man. I ſing, the firſt who brings "The Smithfield Muſes to the Ear of Rings. Wonderful js the ſtupidity of all the former Cxĩticks and Commen- tators on this Poem! It breaks forth at the very firſt line. The Au- thor of the Critique prefix d to Sawney, a Poem, p. 5. hath been fo dull-as to explain The Man who brings, &c. not of the Hero of the Piece, but of our Poet himſelf, as if he vaunted that Kings were to be is Readers (an Honour which tho' this Poem hath had, yer knoweth | _ — pn with more E RES 5 1 e remit tins orant to rhe firit lines of t ei Hurin him, that Virgil there ſpeakerh not of himſelf, but of Eneas, ; Urn virumg, cam, Troje qui primus ab oris, Itali am fato Wee Latinaq ; venit | Litera: multum ille & terris jactatus et alto, & . | I eite the whole three verſes, that I may by the way offer a Ciedtu- wal 88 purely my own, upon each : Firſt, er?s ſhould be read aris, it bei . ne that ÆEneas fled as ſoon as he ſaw Priam lain, In the ſecond line E would read flats for fato, ſince ic is moſt clear it was by Minds that he arrived at the Shore of Italy Jactatus in the third, is ſurely as im- roper apply d to terris, as proper to alto: To ſay a man is zoft on land, s much at one with ſaying he walks at ſed, Riſum tensatis amici? Cor- rect it, as I doubt not it ought to be, Vena. - . SCRIBTIERVUsS, VERSE 5: The Smithfeld- Maſtr J Smithfield is the place where Bartholomew Fair was kept, whoſe Shews, Machines, and Dramati- cal Entertainments, formerly agreeable only to the Taſte of the Rabble, were, by the Hero of this Poem and others of equal Genius brought ro t | the Hay-Market, to be the reigning Pleaſures of the Court and Town. This happened in the Year 1725, and continued to the eat L738 Sec Book 5. Verf. 191, ee. Et J. Text with due LF $3 7 \ EY : L 1 A kg 133 1 18 4 OS, 15S Kay 43 BY 4 y 4 q XL 5 25 4 I 75 1 — 1 K 24 © : 1 73 P 2c as we ſee n. 2, 513, from the altar of Jupiter Hercaus he Theatres of Covent-Garden; Lincolns-inn-Fields, and 13 2 hes 4 . 35 23] 41 7 , Wet : : * e A . "it BY 4 { [1 j © 8 * A * A — tbe? 2 r IRS — — 9 1 | _ Book I. The Du NAD. 77 = 5 Say from what cauſe, in vain decry'd and curft, S.till Dunce ſecond reigns like Dunce the firſt ? In eldeft time, e er mortals writ or read, 1 Fer Pallas iſſued from the Thund'rers head, Dulneſs oer all poſſeſs d her antient right, 0 Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night: ” Fate in their dctage this fair idiot gave, * Groſs as her fire, and as her mother grave, | Laborious, heavy, buſy, bold, and blind, — i She rul'd, in native Anarchy, the mina. = 15 Still her old empire to confirm, ſhe tries, - ” For born a Goddeſs, Dulneſs never dies. | | O thou! whatever Title pleaſe thine ear, | 1 j Dean, Drapier, Bickerſtaff, or Gulliver! | i whether thou chuſe Cervantes ſerious air, e 1 20 Or langh and ſhake in Rab lais eaſy Chair, Dr praiſe the Court, or magnify Mankind, ; EFT g "% (& ad 5 PRO CY Wen. ry Or thy griev'd Country's copper chains unbind; 3 1 REMARKS. 9 &E (OW us HH VERSE to. Daughter of Chaos, & e. The beauty of this whole Al- = legory being Purely of the Poetical kind, we think it not our proper | | ” bufineſs as 2 Scholiaſt, to meddle with it; bur leave it (as we ſhall in general all ſuch) to the Reader: remarking only, that Chaes (ac- 8 eording to Heſſod, Sto ou ) was the Progenitor of all the Gods. 1 g 5 8 © - _— + bt IMITATIONS. . ERS Es. Saygreat Patricians (nes your ſelves inſpire = |"? ,_ Theſe wond'reus Works.] — Ovid. Met.1, 1 > ( — Dij captis nam vos mutaſtis & illas) 3 | . nl I YERSEG6, Alluding to a verſe of Mr, Dryden's not in Mac NHeens fas it is ſaid ignorantly in the Key to the Dunci 5 i us verſes to Mr. — 80 2 ah = 122 28 | And Tom the Second reig nt likeTom the Ng. «1 © yu fe), Fr cf, Oo 7.6 72 The DuxciaD. Book . From thy Bæotia tho Her Pow'r re tires. Grieve not at ought our ſiſter realms acquire 25 Here pleas'd behold her mighty wings out-ſpread,. To hatch.a new Saturnian age of Lead. ; Where wave the tatter'd enſigns of Rag-Fair, A yawning ruin hangs.and nods in air; = 4 EKeen, hollow winds howl thro? the bleak recefs,, = 50 Emblem of Muſic caus'd by Emptineſs : . # Here in one bed two ſhiv'ring fiſters lye,. The cave of Poverty and Poetry. | R E MAR XS. | il VERSE 23. From thy Bæotia ] Beotia of old lay under the Ra illery | of the neighbouring Wits, as Ireland does now; tho each of thok: : nations produced one of the greateſt Wits, and greateſt Generals, of their age. . | | VERSE 26. A new Saturnian Age of Lead.) The ancient Golden | 'Age i v9 Poets ſtiled Saturnian; but in the Chymical language, Sa. 6 Is Le 0 8 VERSE 27. Where wave the tatter d Enſigns of Rag - fair.] Rag- fair is 2 8 near the Tower of London, where old . — and 3 are d. VERSE 28. 31. Ce. A jamning ruin hangs and nods in air. Here in one Bed two ſbiv'ring Siſters lie, 8 | The Cave of Poverty and 1 pn | ; Hear upon this place the forecited Critick on the Dwureiad, © Theſe j I * nes ((aith he) have no Conſtruction, or are Nonſenſe. The two OM wm us ,c e 8 — cz muſt be the fiſter Caves of Poverty an 3 9 . | © or the Bed and Cave of Poverty and Poetry muſt be the ſame, ee. Ma E and the two Siſters the Lord knows who > _ T © _ O the Conſtruction of Grammatical Heads! Virgil writeth thus: 5 Eu. I. : W | 7 ZE wh Fronte ſub adverſa ſrepulis pendentibus antrum 5s f n. Intus aqua dulces, viveg; [edilia ſaxo, | 14 F est demi. l May we not ſay in like manner, The Nymphs muft be the Waters | ; a] and the Stones, or the Waters and the Stones muſt be the houfes of |, Dal the Nymphs ? Inſulſe!: The ſecond line; Intus aquai, &t; is in a pa-. = rentheſis (as are the two lines of our Author, Keen hollow Winds, Cc.) — and ir is the Antrum, and the yawning Ruin, in the line before that. | ©* parentheſis, which are the Domus, and the Cave, 8 | Let me again, I beſeech rhee Reader, preſent thee with another Conjettural mendatien on Virgil's Scopulis pendentibus: He is here de- . ſcribing a place, whither the weary Mariners of c/Sneas repaired to dreſs their Dinner. Feſſi --- frugeſq; receptas Et torrere parant flam- | N mis: What has Scepulis pendentibus here to do? Indeed the aque diu. ves and ſedilia are ſomething; ſweet Waters to drink, and Seats to reſt on. The other is ſurely an error of the Copyiſts. Reftore it, without the leaſt ſcruple, Pepulis prandentibus. i ; But for this and a thouſand more, expect our Edition of Virgil; a gpecimen whereof ſee in the Appendix. | 3 | | | = ; SCRIBLERUS, ak „ Book I. The Du xc iA 73 This, the Great Mother dearer held than all | ; The clubs of Quidnunc's, or her own Guild-hall. 1 1 35 Here ſtood her Opium, here ſhe nurs'd her Owls, . = 1 And deftin'd here th' imperial ſeat of Fools. =_ 3 Hence ſprings each weekly Muſe, the living boaſt Of Curl's chaſte preſs, and Lintot's rubric's poſt, Hence hymning Tyburn's elegiac lay, | . 1 40 Hence the ſoft ſing-ſong on Cecilia's day, 4 |: Sepulchral lyes our holy walls to grace. Fl And New-year Odes, and all the Grubſtreet race. bi * a # 22 e . e 1 Spd . ee | VERSE 33. The Great Mother.} Magna Mater, here applyed t& 1 * - VERSE 41, Is a juſt Satyr on the Flatteries and Falihoods admits ted to be inſcribed on the walls of Churches in Epi taphs. J muſt not here omit a Reflection, which will occur perpetually through this Poem, and cannor bur greatly endear the Author ro every attentive Obſerver of it: I mean that Candour and Humanity which every where appears in him, to thoſe unhappy Objects of the 3 Ridicule of all mankind, the bad Poets. He here impures all ſcan- dalous rhimes, ſcurrilous weekly papers, lying news, baſe flatteries, 7 wretched elegies, ſongs, and verſes (even from thoſe ſung at Court, > to ballads in the ftreets) not ſo mch to Malice or Servility as to Dulneſs ; and not ſo much to Dulncſs, as to Neceiſity; And thus at the very commencement of his Satyr, makes an Apology for all that are to be ſatyrized. 25 | | IMITATEIONS VERSE 33. This the Great Mother, &c. «/£n, x. Vrbs antiqua fuit ---- : l ' Ouam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam Hoſthabita coluiſſe Samo; hic illius arma, Hic currus ſuit : hoc regnum Dea gentibus eſſe (Ciqua fata rage tum tenditg, fovetq; | VERS E 39. Hence hbymning Tyburn ---- Hence, G. f Genus unde Latinum, 5 | -eAlbanig, patres, at, alia mania Fm Virg. _ 1 eG ” PRE 8 eg! : | md * 3 * : : 2 : 2 E 8 If * fi f rr N v R e — S IA r a r . e A ͤ ˙ LIENS Wm 2 Ns TTL OT Wrong * 4 orgs 1 > ee wo = \ e l 1 — Dr WW ea 4 ä s x FS 1 ＋ 1 ” "TM oe — 7 N Pe wh VEST _ 8 * 2 : AM i "0 ( AY C4 Ln" — 2 ba why a 4 . Py our edge * — \ eee r 8 T A * W 4 ag 75 : ; $6 PO. $16 ten, 7 ä - * 6 Y 9 — — * _ " GN eee y „ 14 ? # I E 4 Nn U - " _ — Mens A AN pet ” * 2 * ro Mo "SORT 7 Co 1 _ * 5 2 Five 7 n * A I”; — UP n bn oaeap Mb: "Hh . 24 EY — * 1 7. * „ on ? 2 2 K LAT C * 1 2 4 . - 1 a : > IT HIT, 6 8 * n : a Lk TE. P h : 4 * 3 bo 1 5 2 5 — . —— _ — : . — R * , qt Wo 74 TheDunciap. Book. *T'was here in clouded majeſty ſhe ſhone; Four guardian Virtues, round, ſupport her Throne; 45 Fierce champion Fortitude, that knows no fears Of hiſſes, blows, or want, or loſs of ears: Calm Temperance, whoſe bleſſings thoſe partake Who hunger, and who thirſt, for {cribling ſake: Prudence, whole glaſs preſents th* approaching Jayl-: $0 Poetic Juſtice, with her lifted ſcale ; Where in nice balance, truth with gold ſhe weighs, And ſolid pudding againſt empty praiſe. 3 Here ſhe beholds the Chaos dark and deep, Where nameleſs ſomethings in their cauſes ſleep, REMARKS. VERSE 48. Who hunger, and who thirf.] * This is an infamoũs e Byrlefque on a Text in Seripture, which ſhews the Author's delight N is Prophaneſs, (ſaid Ger! upon this place.) But tis very familiar With Shakeſpeare to allude to Paffages of Scripture, Out of a great — ſelect a few, in which he both alludes to, and 1 the very Texts from holy Writ. In All's well that ends well, I am ne great Nebuchadnezzar, I have not much Skill in Graſs, Ibid. They are Fir the flowry Way that leads to tte broad Gate, and the great Fire, Mat, 7. 13. Much ado about nothing: All, all, and moreover-God ſaw him when he was hid in the Garden, Gen. 3. 8. (in a very jocoſe Scene.) In Love's Labour loſt, he talks of Sampſon's carrying the Gates on his Back; in the Merry Wives of Windſor of Goliah and the Weavers Beam; and in Henry 4, Falſtaff Soldiers are compared to Lazar as and the Prodigal Son, &c. The firft part of this Note is My, Curl's: The #eft is Mr, Theobald's- Shakeſpear .Reſtor'd Appendix. p. 144. 2 MIT ATT O NS. VERSE 43. I clouded Majeſty foe ſbone.] Milton, Ii. 4. —— The Moon Riſing in clouded Majeſty, ————= | 0 VERSE 46. That knows no fears Of hiſſes, blows, or want, or Abſs of ears.] ” - mt | | Quem neq; pauperies, ueq; mors, neq, vincula terrent. 1 VERSE 53. Here ſhe beholds the Chaos dark and deep, where name- 'teſs ſomethings. .&c.] That is to ſay, unformed things, which are ci. ther made into Poems or Plays, as the Bookſellers or the Players bid "moſt. Theſe lines allude ro the following in -Garth's Diſperſary, Cant. 6. Within the charabeys of the Globe they ſpy The beds where ſleeping Vegetables lie, Tul the glad ſummons of a genial ray 3 Vnlinds the Glebe, and calls them. out to ds 5 4 = - - 4 & , 12 wt, or name- re (i- rs bid enſar), Book I. The Dux Ab. 75 _ 55 Till genial Jacob, or a warm Third-day Call forth each maſs, a poem or a play. How Hints, like ſpawn, ſcarce quick in embryo liey How new-born Nonſenſe firſt is taught to cry, Maggots half-form'd, in rhyme exactly meet, 60 And learn to crawl upon poetic feet. ' Here one poor Word a hundred clenches makes, And ductile dulneſs new meanders takes; There motley Images her fancy ſtrike, Figures ill-pair'd, and Similes unlike. 65 She ſees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the Madneſs of the mazy dance; How Tragedy and Comedy embrace ; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; Hew Time himſelf ſtands ſtill at her command, 70 Realms ſhift their place, and Ocean turns to land, REMARK s. VERSE 6r. Here one poor Word 4 hundred clenches makes.) It mã not be amiſs to give an inſtance or two of theſe Operations of Pale out of the Authors celebrated. in the Poem. A great Critick former» Iy held theſe Clenches in ſuch abhorrence, that he declared, He that would Pun, would pick a Pocket. Yet Mr. Dennis's works afford us notable Examples in this kind.“ Alexander Pope hath * ſent abroad into the world as many Bulls as his Nameſake Pope © Alexander,” —— Let us. ake the initial and final letters of his iv Surname, viz. A. P and they give you the Idea of an Ape. Pope comes from thE Latin word Popa, which ſignifies little Wart; or from Poeppyſma, becauſe he was coneinaalls . 8 «c out ſquibs of wit, or rather Po-pyſmaza, or Po-piſms, DENNIS, Daily-Fournal June 11. 1728. VERSE 68. How Farce and Epic How Time himſelf &c. 1 Allude to the Tranſgrefſions of the Unities, in the Plays of ſuch Poets. For the Miracles wrought upon Time and Place, and the mixture of Tragedy, Comedy, Farce and Epic, See Pluto «nd Proſerpine, Pe- nelope, &c. as yet extant, 7 N 9 IMITATIONS. Cant. x, VERSE 62. And ductile dulneſi.] A Parody on another in Garth; Fow duct ile matter new m—_ takes, „„ | 2 | « f f © i; H | \ \ | 78 The Dunciapd. Book I. Here gay Deſcription Egypt glads with ſhowers; | Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers; 4 :Glitt"ring with ice here hoary hills are ſeen, © |! There painted vallies of eternal green, 75 On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harveſts nod beneath the ſnow. All theſe and more, the cloud-compelling Queen 'Beholds thro fogs that magnify the ſcene : She, tinſel'd o'er in robes of varying hues, $0 With ſelf-applauſe her wild creation views, Sees momentary monſters riſe and fall, And with her own fools colours gilds them all. Twas on the day, when Thorold, rich and grave, I. ike Cimon triumph'd, both on land and wave: 35 (Pomps without guilt, of bloodleſs ſwords and maces, -Glad chains, warm furs, broad banners, and broad faces) R E MARK . VERSE 7i. Z#gypt glads with Showers.] In the lower Egypt Rain is of no uſe, the overflowing of the Ay/e being ſufficient to im- pregnate the ſoil. Thele fix verſes repreſent the inconſiſtencies In the deſcription of Poets, who heap together all glittering and - gawdy Images, tho' incompatible in one ſeaſon, or in one ſcene, — 1 See the Guardian Ne 40. Printed in the Appendix, Parag. 7. See aiſo Fuſden's whole Works (if to be found.) : . 1 VERSE 83. '1was on the Day when Thorold rich and grave. ] Sir © © -George Thorold Lord Mayor of London in the Year 17:0, The Proceſ- ſ fion of a Lord*Mayor is made partly by land, and partly by water,— | fl Cimon the famous Athenian General obtained a victory by ſea, and 0 another by land, on the ſame day, over the Perſians and Barbar ang. 8 VERSE 86. Glad chains. The Ignorance of theſe Moderns ! This - cl was altered in one Edition to Gold Chains, ſhewing more regard to the © metal of which the chains of Aldermen are made, than vo the beaury | ot of the Latiniſm and Greciſm, nay of figurative ſpeech irfelft, —— Þ|Þ 2" , ſegetes, glad, for making glad, -&c, Be p. IMITATIONS. 5 = pri "VERSE 77. The. Cloud-compelling Queen) F. rom Homer's Epithet of Tepiter, gpenngera Zevs 3 . of Lek The Done N | 90 Vet eat in dreams the cuſtard of the day:;- time of Heury the eighth. ſpoken in the Pageants: But that part of the ſhows being by t ſucceſſor to that place. This important point of time our Poet has crees to remove her imperial ſeat from the City, and over-ſpread the litical Poems; and | - In ſhort Settle was then thought a formidable Rival ro Mr, Dryden and nor only the Town, but the Univerſity of Cambridge, was di- ed to Elkanah. DENNIS” Pref. to Rem, on Hom. Now Night deſcending, the proud ſcene was oer, But liv'd, in Settle's numbers, one day more, Now May'rs and Shrieves all huſh'd and fatiate lay, While-penſive Poets painful vigils keep, _ Sleeplefs themſelves to give their readers ſleep. - Much to the mindful Queen the feaſt recalls, What City-Swans, once ſung within the walls; 95 Much ſhe revolves their arts, their ancient praiſe, - And ſure ſucceſſivn down from Heywood's days. She ſaw-with- joy the line immortal run, Each fire impreſt and glaring in his ſon ; : XE M AR K 8. VERSE 88. But liv'd in Settle's Numbers one day more.] A be tiful manner of ſpeaking, uſual with the Poets in praiſe of Poetry, in which kind nothing is finer than thoſe lines of Mr, Addiſon, Seme'imes m guided by the tuneful throng, T lock for fireams immortaliz'd in ſong, That loſt in ſilence and oblivien he, | Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry”; | Tet ran for ever, by the Muſes skill, : And in the ſmooth deſcription murmur ſtill, VERSE 96. John Haywood,} Whoſe Enterludes were printed in the VERSE 88. But hd in Settle's Numbers one day more.] Settle was alive at this time, and Poet to the City of London. His office was to compoſe yearly panegyricks upon the Lord Mayors, and Verſes to be frugality of ſome Lord Mayors at length aboliſhed, the employment of City Poet ceas'd; fo that upon Settle's demiſe; there was no choſen, as the Criſis of the Kingdom of Dulueſs, who thereupon de- other parts of the Town : To which great Enterprize all things be- ing now ripe, ſhe calls the Hero of this Poem. | Mr, Settle was once a writer in ſome vogue, particularly with his Party; for he was the author or publiſher of many noted Pamphleta in the time of n the ſecond. He anſwered all Dryden's po- ; Deing cry'd up on one ſide, ſucceeded nor a little in his Tragedy of the Empreſs of Morroco (the firſt that was ever | rinred with Cuts.) © Upon this he grew inſolent, the Wits wrir a- 5 gainſt his Play, he replied, and the Town Judged he had the better. 7 vided which to prefer; and in both places the younger lort inclin- For the latter part of his Hiſtory, ſee the third Book, verſe 23. = o = l 5 78 The Dux c iA. Book I. So watchful Bruin forms with plaſtic care 100 Each growing lump, and brings it to a Bear. = 1 ings, having been a- like ſenrenc'd to the Pillory. 5 | Of Euſden and Blackmore, See Book 2. v. 254. and 300. And PHIips, See Book 3. v. 274. ET | - VERSE rg. And all the mighty Mad.] This is by no means to be underſtood literally, as if Mr. D. were really mad ; Not that we are ignorant of the Narrative of Dr. R. Norris, but it deſerveth no more Tceard than the Pop ubon P. and the like idle Traſh, wrireen, by 1 She ſaw old Pryn in reſtleſs Daniel ſhine, 1 And Euſden eke out Blackmore's endleſs line; 1 She ſaw ſlow Philips creep like Tate's poor page, 1 And all the Mighty Mad in Dennis rage. i REMARKS. wm VERSE 101. Ol Prynn in reſtleſ Daniel.] Williams Prynn and Da: 1 iel de Foe were writers of Verſes, as well as of Politicks; as appears wg by the Poem of the latter De jure Divino, and others, and by theſe | 1 lines in cowley's Miſcellanies of the former. 8 | ö 1 One lately did not fear 5 1 (Without the Muſes leave) to plant Verſe here. KY Zut it produc'd ſuch baſe, rough, crabbed, hedge, Fl {2 R9ymes, as Cen ſet the heayers ears on edge: f | 1 Written by William un Eſqui-re, the | . Year of our Lord, fix hundred thirty three. 1 Brave Jerſey Muſe! and he's for his high ſtile | 4 , | Calld to this day the Homer of the Ile. | 5 1 | Both theſe Authors had a reſemblance in their fates as well as writ- | * Moor, or other young and light Perſons, who themſelves bett * eſerve to be blooded, ſcarified, or whippcd, for ſuch their ungraci- ous merriment with their Elders, No it is ſpoken of that Excel- | lent and Divine Madneſs, ſo often mentioned by Pla's, that poetical rage and enthuſiaſm, with which no doubt Mr. D. hath, in his time, | been hi aly poſſeſſed; and of thoſe extraordinary hints and mo:ions | Thereol he imſelf ſo feelingly treats in the Preface to Pr. Ar h. [Sce Þ Notes on Bock 2. verſe 256, | . S CRI BI. VERS E 104. And all the mighty M. d in Dennis rage. ] This Verſe In the ſurreptitious Editions ſtood thus, And furious D — foam, Cc. which, in that printed in Ireland, was unaccountably filled up with the great name of Dryden. Mr. Theobald in the Cenſor, Vol. 2. Ne 33. alſo calls him by the Name of Furius. The modern Furius is ® to be look d on as more the object of Pity, than of that which he daily provokes, laughter and contempt. Did we really know how | J © much this poor Men (I wiſh that reflection on Poverty had been ſpar d) 1 * ſuffers by being contradicted, or which is the ſame thing in effect, by hearing another praiſed ; we ſhould in compaſſion ſometimes at- i rend to him with a filent nod, and let him go away with the tri- ® umphs of his ill nature. — Poor Furius (again) when any orc © * his cotemporaries are ſpoken well of, quitting the Ground of the * preſent diſpute, ſteps back a thouſand years to call in the ſuccour , of the Ancients, His very Panegyrick is ſpiteful, and he uſes it for +. the ſame reaſon as ſome Ladies do their commendations of f dead | | | : | | Beauty 1 a 2 a 2 EF a a. & ad io mm » 1 » 9 3 - * x7 Laff 3 g N 1 ol 5 1 * - U b =_ 8 _ Book IJ. The Du NAD. 79. 105 In each ſhe marks her image full expreſt, But chief, in Tibbald's monſter-breeding breaſt; REMARKS. © Beauty, who never would have had their good word, but that & *-1jving one happened to be mentioned in their Company. His ap- 4 * pJauſe is not the tribute of his Heart, but the ſacrifice of his Re- ij © venge, Cc. Indeed his pieces againſt our Poet are ſomewhar of il an angry character, and as they are now ſcarce extant, a tafte of his ſtile may be ſatisfactory to the curious. A young — ſhorr . Gentleman, whoſe outward form though it ſhould be that of down- fight Monkey, would not differ ſo much from human ſhape, as his < unthinking immarerial part does from human underſtanding. ——- | He is as ſtupid and as venemous as a hunchbacked Toad — A Book through which folly and ignorance, thoſe brethren ſo lame and 3 ne do ridiculouſly look very big, and very dull, and ſtrut, * and hobble cheek by jowl, with their arms on kimbo, — * and ſupported, and bully-backed by that blind Hector, Impudence. | Reflect. on the Eſſay on Crit, Page 26, 29. 30. f = It would be unjuſt not to add his Reaſons for this Fury, they are Y, fo ſtrong and fo coercive. © I regard him (faith he) as an Enemy, # no ſo much to me, as to my King, to m 9 to my Religion, * and to that Liberty which has been rhe ſole felicity of my life. A vagary of fortune, who is ſomerimes pleaſed to be frolickſome, and the epidemick Madneſs of the times, have given him Reputation, and Reputation (as Hobbs ſays) is Power, and that has made him dan * zerous. Therefore look on it as my duty to King: George, whoſe | faithful ſubject I am, to my Country, of which I have ed « conſtant lover; to the Laws, under whoſe protection I have ig long lived; and to the * my Conntry, more dear than life to me, of which I have now for forty years been a conſtant afferter, Cc. I look upon it as my duty, I ſay, to do — you ſhall ſee what — « to pull the Lions skin from this little Aſs, which popular errors has thrown round him; and to ſhow, that this Author who has | lately ſo much in vogue, has neither ſenſe in his thoughts, nor | 2 = = expreſſions. DENNIS, Rem, on Hom. Pref. p. 2. and p. 91. Cc.) | ED : | | - Beſides theſe publick-ſpirited reaſons, Mr. D. had a private one 3 | which by his manner of expreſling it in page 92, appears to have 1 been equally ſtrong,. He was even in bodily fear of his Life, from 3k the machinations of the ſaid Mr. P. The ſtory (fays he) is roo long | ; 4 fo be told, but who would be acquainted with ir, may hear it from | Mr. curl my Bookſeller, — However, what my reaſon has ſuggeſted 9 „ to me, that L have with a juſt confidence ſaid, in defiance of his two 1 clandeſtine weapons, his Slander and his Poyſon”. Which laſt words ' of his Book plainly diſcover, Mr. D. his ſuſpicion was that of beings 44 e in like manner as Mr. curl had been before him. Of whi 1 act ſee A full and true account of a hoyrid and barbarous revenge by Poyſon on the body of Edmimd Curl; printed in 1716, the year ante- eedent to that wherein theſe Remarks of Mr. Dennis were publiſhed.” But what puts it beyond all 3 is à paſſage in a very warm ; treatiſe in which Mr. D. was alfo concerned, price two pence, called | A true character of Mr. Pope and his writings, printed for F. Pepping. Ho 2716, in the tenth page whereof he is {aid © to have inſulted people 5 à on thoſe calamities and diſeaſes, which he himſelf gave them by : _ ». Alminiftring Poyſon to them; and is called (p. 4.) conn - — — o — — > » — CN I ů —— — — oa - ws — 2 — 2 W — 4 — — on 4 — hou 0 — —ͤ——ũä—— ͤ ͤ ld. — — care — = nn n _— „ . + * 2 | 9 MI 9 . 2 ** 8 enn * R * n , rags ts fe rs a N = rr 2 * af 5 * mal 2 4 w 4 4 41 yr K S ˙ os Oo gar gtnins we Os = A oy 1 — 2 — ä * 2 a * * a " * 2 = r oy WE TR EEC —— + adds yd a+ * 2 * ww) 3 2 rr 2 7 = a> _ * a * 5 r I us ey —_ 1 PP TTP N 1 3 er , ene , c B 2 * 2 7 80 4 2 Paper called the Cenſor, and a tran Poem. = my \ o \ = l | N £ 8 1 7 Sees Gods with Dæmons in ſtrange league ingage, And earth, and heav'n, and hell her battles wage. REMARKS. Feying comard, and a ſtabber in the dark, Which: (with many other things moſt lively ſer forth in that piece) muſt have render'd him: terror, not to Mr. Dennis only, bat to all Chriſtian People. . For the reſt, Mr. John Dennis was the Son of a Sadler in London, rn in 1657. He paid court to Mr, Dryden; and having obtained ſome correſpondence with Mr. Wycherly and Mr. Congreve, he imme. diately obliged the publick with their Letters. He made himſelf known to the Government by many admirable Schemes and Projects; which the Miniftry, for reaſons beſt known to themſelves, conſtantly \ Kept private. For his character as a writer, it is given us as follows. Mr. Dennis is excellent at pindarick writings, perfettly regular in all his performances, and a perſon of ſound Learning. That he is ma- ** ter of a great deal of Penetration and Judgment, his criticiſms * (particularlyon Prince Arthur) do n From the ſame account it alſo appears, that he writ Plays “ more to ger ** Reparation than Meney . DENNIS of himſelf. See Jacob's Lives of Dram. Poets, page 6$, 69. compared with page 286. | VERSE 106 But chief in Tibbald] Lewis Tibbald (as pronounced) or Theobald (as written) was bred an Attorney, and Son to an Artor- ney (ſays Mr. Jacob) of Sittenburn in Kent. He was Author of many forgotten Plays, Poems, and other pieces. and of ſeveral anonymous Letters in praiſe ot them in Miſts 22 He was concerned in a ation of Ovid, as we find from r. Dennis's Remarks on Pope's Homer, p, 9, 10. There is a no- tox ious Ideot, one hight Vhachum, who from an under- ſpur- leather to the Law, is become an under- ſtrapper to the Play-houſe, who has lately burleſqu'd the Metamorphoſes of Ovid by a vile Tranſla- tion, Cc. This Fellow is concerned in an impertinent Paper cal- * Jed the Cenſor ”, Bur notwithſtanding this ſevere character another Critick ſays of him, That he has given us fome Pieces which mer * with appropation; and that the cave of Poveriy is an excellent Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets, vol. 2. p. 211. He had once a mind to tranſlate the Odyſſey, the firſt Book whereof was printed In 1717 by B. Lintott, and probably may yet be ſeen at his Shop. What is ſtill in memory, is a piece now about a year old, it had the arrogant Title of Shakeſpear Reſtored : Of his he was ſo proud him- ſelf, as to ſay in one of Miſt's nes, rows 8. That to expoſe any Errors in it was impracticable.“ And in another, April 27, * That ** whatever care for the future might be taken either by Mr. P. or any other aſſiſtanxs, he would ſtill give above ＋ Emmendations that ſhall eſcape then ail.” During the ſpace © Mr. Pope was preparing his Edition of Shakeſpear, and publiſhed Ad- vertiſcments, requeſting all lovers of the Author to contribute to a2 more perfect one; this Reſtorer (who had then ſome correſpondence with him, and was folliciting favours by Letters) did wholly con- ceal his defign, *till after its publication. Probably that 28388 elevated him to the Dignity he holds in this Poem, Which he ſeems to deſerve no other way better than his brethren; unleſs we impute it to the ſhare he had in the Journals, cited among the Teſtimontes of Hut hers prefixed to this work. | | | VERS E 108. Tibbald's monſter-breeding breaſt, Sees Gods with De- mons, &c.] This alludes to the extravagancies of the Farces of char * autbor. See book 3. verſ. 109, C. 80 The Du N ci APD. Book I. | wo years, while 1 Book J. The Du Nc IAS. She ey d the Bard, where ſupperleſs he ſate, 110 And pin'd, unconſcious of his riſing fate; Studions he ſate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vaſt profound! Plung'd for his ſenſe, but found no bottom there; Then writ, and flounder'd on, in mere deſpair. 115 He roll'd his eyes that witneſs'd huge diſmay, Where yet unpawn'd, mucir learned lumber lay, Volumes, whoſe ſize the ſpace exactly fill'd ; Or. which fond authors were ſo good to gild ; Or where, by ſculpture made for ever known, 120 The page admires new beauties, not its own- REMARKS. VERSE roy. — Supper-leſs he ſate. 1 It is amazing how ths ſenſe of this line hath been miſtaken by all the former Commentators, who moſt idly ſuppoſe it ro imply, that the Hero of the Poem wan a ſupper. In truth a great abſurdity! Not that we are ignorant that the Hero of Homer's Odyſſey is frequently in that 8 and therefore it can no way 1 from the grandeur of Epic Poem to repreſent ſuch Hero under a Calamity, to which the greateſt not only of Criticks and Poets, but of Kings and Warriors, have ſu je&. But much more refin'd, I will venture to ſay, is the meaning of our author: It was to give us obliquely a curious precept: or What Boſſi calls a diſguiſed ſentence, that Temperance is the life of Study. The Language of Lccly beings allinro Action; and to repreſent 2 Critic, encompaſt with 2 which lively expreſſeth how much the true Critic prefers the diet of 1 mind to that of the body, one of which he always caſtigates and often totally neglects, for the greater improvement of the other, | SCRIBLERUS; VERSE 11᷑. He roll'd his eyes that witneſs'd huge diſmay] Milt: 1 —— Round he throws his eyes, That witneſs'd huge afflition and diſ- may, The progreſs of a ba Poet in his thoughts being (like the progreſs of the Devil in Milton) thro' a Chaos, might probably ſuggeſt this imitation. VERSE 120. — Admires new beauties not its on., Virg. Geo. 2. Mixeturg, frondes novas, & non ſua poma. VERSE-id. & This 2 is divided into two parts ; the one (his polire, learning) conſiſts of thoſe books which ſeem'd ro be the models of his poetry, and are preferr'd for one of thoſe three reaſons (uſual with collectors of, Libraries) that they fitted the ſhelves, or were gilded for ſhew, or a i Ber pictures: The other claſs our author calls ſolid Learning; old bodies of Philoſophy; old Commen- tators, old Engliſh Printers, or old Engliſh Tranſlations all very voluminous, and fit to erect Altars to Dulneſs. ks, but without a ſupper, is a picture en ⁰ — — — . ——＋＋＋⏑‘ - r ws - — — . 2 1 len e Ls <2 cho ”Y 4 mer — ons a ver — — oy > Moen C9" rn i oor 40 — — q liver Rey r * —— — 2 DIAS > 2 22 - * — — . WI \ a —— — 2 + hs > ow, —_— — wn Paw > =21rebeiGiigs _ e * 0 Lo « > \ o n 82 The Dux cfA D. Book I. Here ſwells the ſhelf with Ogilby the greett: There, ſtamp'd with arms, Newcaſtle ſhines compleat,. 1 Here all his ſuff ring brotherhood retire, F And ſcape the martyrdom of jakes and fire; 1225 A Gothick Vatican! of Greece and Rome wWell-purg d, and worthy Withers, Quarles, and Blome: * But high above, more ſolid Learning ſhone, | The Claſſicks of an Age that heard of none; There Caxton ſlept, with Wynkin at his fide, AY} *+ 130 One claſp'd in wood, and one in ſtrong cow-hide. There ſav'd by ſpice, like mummies, many a year, | Old Bodies of Philoſophy appear. | 13 —— — Py REMARKS. . - 8 VERSE r2r. —— Ogilby the. great.] John Ogilly was one, who rom 2 late initiation into literature, made ſuch a progreſs as might well ſtile him the Prodigy of his time ! ſending into the world ſo man large Volumes! His tranſlations of Homer and Virgil, done to the BR. and with ſ#ch excellent Sculptures! and (what added great grace to his 5 * works) he printed them all on ſpecial good Paper, and in. a very good" "WY Tetter. WINSTANLY, Lives of Poets. : ———— _VERSE 122, wats ode with arms, Newcaſtle ſbines compleat. I The Duickeſi ef Newcaſtle was one who buſied herſelf in the raviſhing delights of Poetry ; leaving to 7. 5 in print three ample Volumes of her ſtudious endeavours, WINSTAN LX, ibia. Langbaine reck- - ons up eight Folio's of her Grace's ; which were uſually adorn'd. * with Suden Covers, and had her Coat of Arms upon them. „„ VERSE 126 —— Wrthy Withers, Quarles, and Blome. ] It was 5 printed in the ſurreptitious Editions, W—— Hl, s, who were Perſons eminent for good life; the one writ the Life of Chriſt in verſe ; the other ſore valuable pieces in the lyrick kind on pious ſubjects. The line is here reftor'd according to its Original. OE | George Withers was a great pretender to poetical zeal: againſt the vices of the times, and abuſed: the greateſt Perſonages in power, n — erer "57 OO TRE A TBE ERTIES which brought upon him frequent correction. The Marſbalſea and : A Newgate were no ſtrangers to him. WINSTANLY, Qwarles was we as dull a writer, but an honeſter man. Blime's books are remarkable A for their cuts. | Es - | ma VERS E 129. Caxton.] A Printer in the time of Edw. 4. Rich. 3. mu and Hen. 7. Wynkin de Nerd, his ſucceſſor in that of Hen. 7, and 8. alo The former tranſlated into proſe Virgil's Eneis as a Hiſtory; of which s $a he ſpeaks in his Proeme in a very ſingular manner, as of a book hard- 1 Iy known. Vid. Append. Tibbald quotes x rare paſſage from him in | cles Mift's Journal of March 16, 1728. concerning a ſtraunge and mer vayi | 8. louſe beaſte called Sagittarye, which he would have Shakeſpear to mean VII rather than Teucer, the Archer celebrated by Hamer, . E Book I The Dux clAD. 83 De Lyra here a dreadful front extends, [4p 4 BY 5 =_ 1 : . TIES EET FEET 1— 140 Founds the whole pyle, of all his works the baſe ; 1 And tliere, the groaning ſhelves Philemon bends. - 14 135 Of theſe twelve volumes, twelve of ampleſt. ſize 1 35 8 > ' | Redeem'd from tapers and defrauded pyes, - 1 Inſpir'd he ſeizes ; Theſe an altar raiſee An hetacomb of pure, unſully'd laß, That altar crowns : A folio Common-place vi | Quarto's, Octavo's, ſhape the leſſ ning pyre, And laſt, a little Ajax tips the ſpire. Then he. Great: Tamer of all human art ! Firſt in my care, and neareft at my heart : 145 Dulneſs ! whoſe good old cauſe I yet defend, With whom my Muſe began, with whom ſhall end? O thou, of buſineſs the directing ſoul, To human heads like byaſs to the bowl, Which as more pond'rous makes their aim more true, 150 Obliquely wadling to the mark in view. - O ever gracious to perplex d mankind ! Who ſpread a healing miſt. before the mind, And, left we err by Wit's wild, dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. | 155 Ah! ſtill o'er Britain ſtretch that peaceful wand, Which lulls th' Helvetian and Batavian land. KEE MARSS:: VERSE 133. Mah. de Lyra, or Harp: feld, a very voluminoũs com- mentator, whoſe works in five vaſt Folio's were printed in 1472. VERSE 134. Fhilemen Holland, Dr. in Phyfick. He tranſlated o' mam beoks, that a man would think he had done nothing elſe, inſo- much, that he might be call'd Tranflator General of his age. The books alone of his turning into Engliſh, are. ſufficient to make a Country. | Gentleman a compleat Library, WINSTANLY. VERSE. 142, Alitile Ajax.] In duodecimo, tranſlated from Sepho- cles by Tibbald, 5 VERSE 146. With whom my Muſe began, with whom fball end.] Virg, Ecl. 8. A te principium, tibi definet = from Theoc, Ex Ar's 4þx@utdt, I eis Ala Anyere, Mics So Horace, | bo” . Prima dicte mibi, ſumma dicende camæna. Where rebel to thy throne if Science riſe, Site does but ſhew her coward face and dies: There, thy good Scholiaſts with unweary'd pains 160 Make Horace flat, and humble Maro's ſtrains ; Here ſtudious J unlucky moderns fave; Nor fleeps one error in its father's grave; Old puns reſtore, loft blunders nicely ſeek, And crucify poor Shakeſpear once a week. 165 For thee I dim theſe eyes, and ſtuff this head, With all ſuch reading as was never read; For thee ſupplying, in the worſt of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays; For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, . 270 And write about it, Goddeſs, and about it; So ſpins the filkworm ſmall its ſlender ſtore, And Jabours, till it clouds itſelf all o'er. Not that my quill to Critiques was confin'd, My Verſe gave ampler leſſons to mankind ; 275 So graveſt precepts may ſucceſsleſs prove, But fad examples never fail to move. As fore d from wind-guns, lead itſelf can fly, And pond rous ſlugs cut ſwiftly thro the sk; a F . þ * Y * - — 4 "7 * n 4 NN NN eee ee eee Ons SE 5 1 R E MAR ERS. VERS E 162. Nor fleeps one error Old puns reſtore, loft blun- ders, & c] As where he laboured to prove Shak:ſpear guilty of terri- ble As acroniſms, or low Conwndrums, which time had cover'd ; and converſant in ſuch authors as Caxton and Wnkin, rather than in Ho- mer or Chaucer. Nay fo far had he loft his reverence to this incom-. —_— author, as to ſay in print, He deſerved to be whipt, An inſo- lence which nothing ſure can parallel! but that of Dennis, who can be proved to have declared before Company, that Shakeſpear was a Raſcal. O tempora! O mores / | VERSE 164. And crucify poor Shakeſpear once a week] For ſome remark or poor cor jecture on ſome word or poin:ing of Shakeſpear. VERSE 166. With all ſuch reading as was never read.) Such as Caxton above-mentioned. The three Peſtructions of Troy by VMynkin. and other like claſſicks. WW” VERSE 168. Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays.} As to Gock's Heſiod, where ſometimes a note, and ſometimes even half a note, aze carefully owned by — wit about the year 1726, SCRIBLERUS. time, once a week or fortnight, he printed in Miſt's Journal a ſingle him: And to Moore's Comedy of the Rival © Modes, and other authors of the lame rank: Theſe were people. who 43! By ö "3h ME. 384 The Duxcrap. Book I. Bc 180 199 Book I. The Du N DIA. 85 A4 ss clocks to weight their nimble motion owe, * 180 The wheels above urg'd by the load below; 1 Me, Emptineſs and Dulneſs could inſpire, And were my Elaſticity and Fire. Had heav'n decreed ſuch works a longer date, Heav'n had decreed to ſpare the Grubſtreet- ſtate. 185 But ſee great Settle to the duſt deſcend, _ And all thy cauſe and empire at an end Cou'd Troy be ſav'd by any ſingle hand, . His gray-gooſe- weapon muſt have made her ſtand. But what can I ? my Flaccus caſt aſide, Sz 190 Take up th' Attorney's (once my better) Guide? Dr rob the Roman geeſe of all their glories, And fave the ſtate by cackling to the Tories? REMARKS. VERSE 189. My Flaccus. ] A familiar manner of ſpeaki ng uſed modern Criticks of a favourite Author. Mr. T. might as juſtly ſp thus of Horace, as a French wit did of Tully ſeeing Ay Ah! mon cher Ciceron! Je le connois bien: cet le mem quem Marc ulle. 35 VERSE 190. Take up th' Attorney's Guide.] In alluſion to his firſt profeſſion of an Attorney, | | | VERS E 19t. Or rob the Roman geeſe, &c.] Relates to the well known ſtory of the geeſe that ſaved the Capitol, of which Virgil, n 8. Atq; hie auratis wolitans argenteus anſer Porticibus, Gallos in limine ade ſſe canebat, A paſſage I have always ſuſpected. Who ſees not the Anritheſis of auratus an | argenteus to be unworthy the Virgi- lian Majeſty ? and what abſurdity to ſay, a Gooſe ſings ? canebat ? Virgil gives à contrary character of the voice of this hilly bird, in Ecl, 9. — argutos interſtrepere anſer olores. Read it therefore adeſſe firepebat, And why aurat is port ici bus? Does not the very verſe pre- ceeding this inform us, Remuleo recens herrebat regio culmo, is this Thatch in one line, and Geld in another, conſiſtent? I ſcruple not (repugnantibus omnibus maneferipths) to correct it, auritis. Horace uſes the ſame epithet in the ſame ſenſe, 5 6 m—— ts fidibus Canoris Ducere quercus. EE | . And to ſay, that Mis have Ears, is common even to a proverb. | SCRIBL. IMI TATTO NS. | VERSE 183. Had heav'n decreed ſuch works a longer date, &c1 ] Virg. Fn. 2 : Me ſi cœlicola voluiſſent ducere vitam Ha, mihi ſer vaſſent ſede· Ee Fas we of E 187, Conuld Troy be ſaved, Hi gray-gooſe-weapond 2 g. 101d. . | a | 77 Pergama dextra ' is work In a li- — — wa — * * rn OE „ Ll 5 * " LP 86 The Du NciAD. Book I. Yes, to my Country I my pen conſign, : 1 Yes, from this moment, mighty Mift! am thine, 195 And rival, Curtius! of thy fame and zeal, |: Oeer head and ears plunge for the publick wel. Adieu my children! better thus expire 2 Un-ſtall'd, unſold ; thus glorious mount in fire Fair without ſpot ; than greas'd by grocer's hands, 200 Or ſhipp'd with Ward to ape and monkey lands, Or wafting ginger, round the ſtreets to go, | And viſit alehouſe where ye firſt did grow. With that, he lifted thrice the ſparkling brand, And thrice he dropt it from his quiy'ring hand: 205 Then lights the ſtructure, with averted eyes; _ _” * 4 : * 1 z | N 2 | I i l 1 " = bl E 3 $ - } £ _ [ > q 1 3 N 3 d f 2 _ _ - * 4 un =_ =_ . Fo 1 _— _— bp 3 4 „ - 8 j | TE : [ i .- . i 8:8 + 4 - O - 1 ' y .£ Y 4 - 5 = = ' y 4 B = 7 1 5 * 8 * . 3 1 1 , : =_ | 1 1 F 4 | 1 ig | 99 q 4 * 4 3 l .-. - Y . 2 " | | The rowling ſmoke involves the ſacrifice. 4 | Do OT i LOS. . | 1 . N VERSE tos. Mighty Mit!) Nathaniel Mft was publiſher of 2 N Famous Tory Paper {fee notes on 1, 3.) in which this Author was ' ſomerimes permitted to have a part. | | | Fe VERSE 2 my children ] This 1s a tender and paſſionate Apoſtrophe to his own Works which he is going to ſacrifice, agree. 1 able to the nature of man in great affliction, and ng Like 2 YL 5 ac ares on the many miſerable fates to which they would otherwiſe 2 ' OY Felix Priameia virgo / | 5 | Juſſa mori : qua ſurtitus nen pertulit ullos, 1 Nec victeris heri tetigit captiva cubile ! 5 1 Nos patria incenſa, . per æquora vecte, &c. : | | | | . : Virg. An. 3. VERSE 200. Or ſhirp'd with Ward to ape and monkey land.] E d- Þ ward Ward, a very voluminous Poet in Hudibraſtick Verſe, but A beſt known by the London Spy, in Proſe, He has of late Years kept a1 ubliek houſe in the City (but in a greet way) and with his wit, umour, and good liquor (Ale) afforded his gueſts a pleaſurable enter- rainment, eſpecially thoſe of the High-Church party. JACOB Liver of Poets. vol. 2. p. 225. Great numbers of his works are yearly told 0 into the Plantations. 8 e | 0 = 3 ATI1D NS 8 VERSE 200. And viſit Alehouſe.] Waller on the Navy, | 1 Thoſe towers of Oak ver fertile plains may go, And viſit Mountains —.— they once did 25 | VERSE 203, Helifted thrice the ſparkling brand, and thrice he role 5 ] Ovid of Althea on the like occation, burning her OH ring, | | | Met. 8. Tum conata quater flammis iniponere torrem, Capita quater Lenmit, mn The opening clouds diſcloſe each work by turns, 'Now flames old Memnon, now Rodrigo burns, In one quick flaſh ſee Proſerpine expire, | ' 210 And laſt, his own cold Æſchy lus took fire. 8, of 2 WAS late ree- e 2 vile . 3. EA but pt 2 wit, ter- ves told ehe O neſs in a 1 degree; but our Author ſu A Lobſter on Then guſh'd the tears, as from the 'Trojan's eyes : When the laſt blaze ſent Ilion to the Skies. Rowz'd by the light, old Dulneſs heav'd the head, Then ſnatch'd a ſheet of Thule from her bed; ; 215 Sudden ſhe flies, and whelms it o'er the pyre: Down fink the flames, and with a hiſs expire. 'REMAR K §. vf RS E 208. Now flames old Memnon, now Rodrigo burns, I one Tei fob ſee Proſerpine ave.) — Aemnon, a Hero in the Perſian Princeſs, very apt to take fire, as appears by theſe Lines with which he begins the Pay. = By heav'n it fires my frozen blood with rage, | And makes it ſcald my aged * . . = Rodrigo, the chief perſonage of the Perfidious Brother, a play writs ten between T. and a Watch-maker. The Rape of Proſerpine, one o the Farces of this Author, in which Ceres ſets fire to a Corn- field, *which endangered the burning of the Play-houſe, VERSE 210. And laſt, his own cold Fſchylus took fire.] He had been (to uſe an expreſſion of our Poet) abont Æfehylus for ten years, and had received Subſcriprions for the ſame, but then went aber other Books. The character of this rragie Poet is Fire and Bold- ppotes it to be very much cooled by the tranſlation ; Upon fight of a ſp this Epigram, x Alas! poor Aſchylus ! unlucky Dog Whom once 2 Lobſter kill'd, and now a Log, Bur this is a grievous error, for «/£ſchylus was nor ſlain by the fall of g Ns head, but'of a Tortoiſe, teſte Val. max. I. 9. cap. 12. S8 SCRIBL, VERSE 214. Thale] An unfiniſhed Poem of that name, of Which one ſheer was printed fifteen Years ago; by A. Ph. a Northern Au- thor. It is an uſual method of putting our a fire, to caſt wet ſheers upon it. Some Criticks have been of opinion, that this ſheet was of the nature of the Asbeſtos, which cannot be conſumed by fire; but I rather think it only an allegorical alluſion to the coldneis and her- wineſs of the writing. | IMITATIONS. VERSE 200; Now flames old Memnon, Cc. ] virg n. 2. am Deiphobi dedit ampla ruinam Vulcano ſuper ante, domus; jam proximus ardet Vo, ale gen. ; ecimen of it, was made FR OT OT I 2 * Ne —— — — aero * _ 1 7" z | | : þ 1 1 s £ } 4 f : i = N 1 1 4 - & | + 46 7 { = - i 2B [ . [i 74 +. * 5 « £5 2% O 1 - p 1 U _ 5 - by o bY 1 3 2 E 7 23 .. her Cave. It was printed in octavo, 1713. irie ˙ Ef VERSE 219. Great in hey charms | as whenon Shrieves and May'rs be looks, and breathes herſelf into their airs.) Alma parens conſeſſa Deam ; qual; videri Calico & * . 11 "n—Era'os.oculis afflarat hencre· Id. n. . Vvitg. X. 2. 88 The Du xclA D. Bock I. er to celebrate her power, and deſcribe | ; — N { : 240 Can make a Cibber, Johnſon, or Ozell. I he Goddeſs then, o'er his anointed head, With myſtic words, the ſacred Opium ſhed ;. - And lo. her Bird (a monſter of a fowl !.. Something betwixt a H** * and Owl) : 245 Perch'd on his crown. All hail ! and hail again, My Son! the -promis'd land expects thy reign. Know, Settle, cloy with cuſtard. and with praiſe, - | Is gather'd to the Dull of antient days, Safe, Where no criticks damn, no duns moleſt, 250 Where Gildon, Banks, and bigh- born Howard reſt. R E M AR K S. VERSE 240. Can make a Cibber. ] Mr. Colly cibber, an Author and F »Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Congreve, and Corneille, ? Actor; of a good ſhare of wit, and ancommon vivacity, which are much improved by the converſation he enjoys, which is of the bef#; JACOB Lives of Dram. Poers. p. 38 Beſides two Volumes ot Plays in to, he has made up and tranſlated ſeveral others. Mr. Jacob omittec to remark, that he is particularly admirable in Tragedy. a VERSE 244 | Joh on.] Charles Johnſton, 2mous for writing ; f 3 every ſeaſon, and for being at Bution's every day. He had ly thriven better in his Vocation had he been a ſmall mattes roba leaner, He may juſtly be called a Martyr to obeſity, and to have fal- len a victim to the rotundity of his parts. CHA. of the TIMES, prone by CURL, p. 19. Some of his Plays are, Love in a Foreſt - * Shaksſpear's As you like it) Wife's Relief (Shirlzy's Gameſter) Victinr (Racine's Iphigenia) The Sultaneſs (Racine's Bajazet) the prologue ' to which abuſed Dr, Arburthnot, (Mr. Pope, and Mr, Gay.) The Ce-- dier of Preſton, his o mn. 91 | VERSE 240. = And Ozell.] Mr. John Ozell, if we eredit Mr: Jacob, did go to School--in * Leiceſterſhire, where 2 left * him ſomething to live on, when he ſhould retire from * choſe rather to be placed in an Office of accounts in the City, being qualified for rhe ſame by his skill in Arithmetick, and writing the * neceflary hands. He has obliged the world with many tranſlatiom » of — Plays. JACOB Lives of Dram. Poets, p. 198. ny | VERSE 244. 1 H——r} A ſtrange Bird from Stisz arland. VERSE 350, Where Gildon, Banks, and high-born-Howard ve Charles Gildon, a writer of criticiſms and libels of the laſt age; He publiſhed Blount's blaſphemous books againſt rhe Divinity of * 4 * — e ſhox ufineſs, He vas deſigned to be ſent to cambridge in. order for Prieſthood ; bur a Chriſt, . the Oracles of reaſon, &c. He fignal himſelf as a Critic, having- * - * written ſome very bad plays; abuſed Mr. P. very ſcandalouſſy in an anonymous Pamphlet of the Life of Mr. Wcherly princes by Gow im- r another called the New Rehearſal printed in 1714, in a . the Ar Ars of Engliſh'Poetry; in 22 others. VERSE 250. — Banks.) Was author of the play of the Tbs Ann Boleyn, &. Be 10 the law as a lollzeiter, like | entitled Earl of * * . Book. I. The Dunerinnr. 84 4 9 ! PEEING IR i bs. _— : ace a - * 8 232 0 wn 6-2 4 — Os 1-4 DTS — — 4 - 7 2 [ | ! :, 3 p = 5 1 | ' [ . 8 U _ * 4 * 43 £ =_ _—_ 2 3 2 — - 78 3 7 = * 80 _ + > £ 9 _ þ * 1 _ . bh = +. = . -3 E + 73 1 r —— 22 3 ; ** . 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God ſave King Tibbald ! Grubſtreet alleys roar. So when Jove's. block deſcended. from on high, (As ſings thy great fore-father, Ogilby,) Loud thunder to its bottom ſhook the bog, 260 And the hoatſe nation croak'd, God ſave King Log! | 4 REMARK S. VERSE 255. Hoy, Edward Howard, Author of the Britiſi. Princes, and a great number of wonderful _ celebrated by the late Earls of Dorſet and Rocheſter, Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Waller, SE. | | VERSE 258. A, ſings thy great fore-father Ogiliy.] See his e/£ſop: Dab. where this — — . — is to be ant; Our author ſhows here and elſewhere, a prodigious Tenderneſs for a bad writer, We ſee he felefts the only good paſſage perhaps in all that ever Qgilby writ; which ſhows how candid and patient a reader he muſt have been. What can be more kind and affectionate than theſe words 'In the preface to his Poems 49. 1717. where he labours to call up all. our humanity. and forgiveneſs toward them, by the moſt moderate repreſentation of their caſe that has ever been given by n ad Poets: What we diſcover it no other way than by that ſtrong propenſity, which. renders him the more liable to be miſtaken. He has no other me- S thod bur to make the experiment by writing, and ſo appealing to, the judgment of others And if he happens to write ill (which is * certainly no fin in itſelf) he is immediately made the Object of _ * Ridicule! I with we had the humanity to reflect, that even the worſt, Authors might endeavour; to pleaſe us, ani! in that endeavour, de- 4 F&rye ſomething at our hands. We have no cauſe to quarrel with: them, bur for their obſtinacy in perſiſting, and even that may ad- mit of alleviating circumſtances : For their particular friends may be either ignorant, or unfincere , and the reſt of the world too *% well-bred, ro ſhock them with, a truth, which generally rbeir. Books 2 Werz are the firſt that inform them of. Hig * 5 End of the Fin Boks. go The Duncan: Book I. 75 1% - < q- 40 9 | | YN . * bh” | "FP ifs 1 Yr 8 8 185 | | « 1 wn Og Derne 2 Dr N . WIE" 2 1 FR a. OM. o K the SECOND. Bo * H' GH on a gorgeous ſeat, that far outſhones 25 Henley 's gilt Tub, or Fleckno's Iriſh Throne, REMARKS on Book the SB cON D. Two things there are, upon which the very Baſis of all verbal Cri- ticiſm is founded and * The firſt, that the Author could never fail to uſe the very beſt word, on every occaſion: The ſecond, thar the Critick cannot chuſe bur know, which ir is? This being granted, whenever any doth not fully content us, we take upon us to conclude, firſt that the author could never have uſed it, And ſecondly, ny he muſt have uſed That very one which we conjecture in its Kead. £5 We cannot therefore enoughadmire the learned Scriblerus, for his aAlteration of the Text {in the two laſt verſes of the preceding book, which in all former editions ſtood thus. 1 | Hoarſe Thunder to its bottom ſhook the bop, And the loud nation croak d, God ſave K. Log! He has with great judgment tranſpoſed theſe two epithets. parting hearſs to the Nation, and lud to the Thunder: And this being evi- dently the true reading, he vouchſafed nor ſo much as ro mention the former; For which aſſertion of the juſt right of a Critick, he merits. the acknowledgement of all ſound Commentators. VERSE 2. Henley's gilt Tab.] The pulpit of a Diſſenter is uſually called a Tub; but thar of Mr. Oraror Henley was covered with velvet, and adorned with gold. He had alfo a fair altar, and over ir this ex- _ rraordinary inſcription, The Primitive Bucharift, See the biſtory of this perſons. book. 3, verſe 367. _ ; * * 2 7 — ww r ͤ T e 2 a —— 32 S ApS IL q br a; A 3 8 an * q * do wn * — NE ETON 8 5 - F * ho 83 5 * . = r Nr . r 2 e 92 2 9 - Y re ir byes : FR I TAG Be Fe Fg: = eee „eee — w er . 0 £5 Pts Pe of ö — — « * a enen A ts 0 corre * iy yt I TEE. 4 9 "7 J . 18 ** 3 — * . 8 o o 3 4 what.” N Se ET IN ———— — EY oC; I Leer Try 9 — 3 — * 2 4 ———— a 3 Ebb n c opt 9b. i 6:7? gap yen i) Ire b . l * 5 o 9 — r — 1 2 = — 2 2 * VET * 2 + — 2 2 — 1 N r * „ gt a5 1 2 n 92 The Dux clA p. Book II. Or that, where on her Curlls the Public pours All-bounteous, fragrant grains, and golden ſhow'rs Great Tibbald ſate: The proud Parnaſſian ſneer,, The conſcious ſimper, and the jealous leer, Mix on his look, All eyes direct their rays On him, and crowds grow fooliſh as they gaze, Nor with more glee, by hands Pontific crown'd, 10 With ſcarlet hats, wide waving, circled round. Rome in her Capitol ſaw Querno ſit, Thron'd on ſev'n hills, the Antichrift of Wit. To grace this honour d day, the Queen proclaims By herald hawkers, high, heroic Games. . 15 She ſummons all her ſons ; An endleſs band Pours forth, and leaves unpeopled half the land; ” N EMA. R X. VER SE-2. or Fleckno's Iriſh Throne] Richard Flecknoe was in Irifh Prieſt, but had laid afide (as himſelf expreſſed it) the Mechanick part of Prieſthood, He printed ſome Plays, Poems, Letters and Tra- vels. I doubt not our Author took occaſion to mention him in reſpect to the Poem of Mr. Dryden, to which this bears ſome reſemblance; tho? of a character more different from it than that of the AÆnei VERSE 3. Or that, where on her Curls the Public pours.] Ed, Curl ſtood in the Pillory at Charing-Croſs, in March 1727-8. | VERSE.-11. Rome in her Capitol ſaw Querno fit.] Camillo Querno was of Apulia, who hearing the great encouragement which Leo the enth. gave to Poets, travelled to Rome with a Harp in his hand, and ſung to it twenty thouſand verſes of a Poem called Alexias. He - was introduced as a Buftoon to Leo, and promoted to the honour of the Laurel; 2 jeft, which the Court of Rome and the Pope himſelf en- ered into ſo far, as ro hold a ſolemn Feſtival on his Coronation, at which it ts recorded; the. Poet himſelf was fo tranſported, as to weep for joy. He was ever after a conſtant frequenter of the Pope's Table, drank abundantly, and poured forth verſes withour number. - PAULUS JOVIUS, Eleg. Vir. dot. ch. 82. Some idea of his Pogtry za given us by Fam. Strada in his Proluſions. 1 17 1 IMITATIONS: VERSE rt. High on à gorgeous ſeat.] Parad of Milton, lib; 2. High on a throne ef royal tate, that far. | | 35 Ke. the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, r where the 9 Eaſt with richeſt hand Show'rs on her Kmgs barbarick pearl and gold? Sus exalted ſate; : —ä— . — — — at P BAAN det S -From- the Liad, or the Luirin of Boileau from the Defaite des deut. vimees of Saraxin. | | | ht Nr 2 4 3 . * wo * e AY tt BW.” Sd * _ W „ TT. EF: wu > % . » __ x 0 oo” ww oY 5 COT "* WO. WH es et RG PI roma wen ; 20 On horſe, on foot, in hacks, and gilded chariots, | £5 But now, ſo ANNE and Piety ordain, 30 And gentle Dulneſs ever loves a joke: Juno does to deceive Turnus, Æn. 10. their allegorical application here to a Plagiary. There. feems to mea phantom that deludes the Fl of the expecting Bookſeller. —— — — 744333 — 5 . Book II. The Dunctavi 93 A motley mixture! in long wigs, in bags, 5 In ſilks, in crapes, in garters, and in rags ; From drawing rooms, from colleges, from garrets, All who true dunces in her cauſe appear d, And all'who knew thoſe dunces to reward: . Amid that Area wide- ſhe took her. ſtand, Where the tall May-pole once o'erlook'd the Strand; A Church colle&s the ſaints of Drury-lane. . With Authors, Stationers obey'd the call, The field of glory is a field for all ; e Glory, and gain, th' induſtrious tribe provoke; A Poet's form ſhe plac'd before their eyes, And bad the nimbleſt racer ſeize the prize; No meagre, muſe-rid mope, aduſt and thin, In a dun night-gown of his own looſe skin, 35 But ſuch a bulk as no twelve bards could raiſe, Twelve ſtarveling bards of theſe degen'rate days. . All as a partridge plump, full-fed, and fair, She form'd this image of well-bodied air, With pert flat eyes ſhe window'd well its head, 40 A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead, I M17 AT I.O N. ' VERSE 37, 4 Peet's Form ſhe plac d before their eyes] This is whas - Tum dea nube cava, tenuem fine viribus umbram, In faciem Mues (viſu mirabile monſtrum) Dardaniis ornat telis, clypeumque jubaſque. Divini aſſimilat capitis —— Dat inania verba, Dat fine mente ſonum. 8 - | The Reader will obſerve how exactly ſome of theſe verſes ſuit with : = pu - de — 33 . — r — toy a — —ͤ—õ? great propriety in this Epiſode, where ſuch an one is imag d bytes my VERSE 35. But ſuch a bulk as no twelve bards,] Virg. 12. .. V illud let; bis ſex ——— _ | Sala nune hominam producit corpora tellus, . ANIME A © fg tr er Rs 5 er —— 2 —— 2 Duo eco — n [i — r — ** „ eee EP pe Rte, eee > 1 * , 1 # + £ * 5 e = ® i224 I B 3 bY > 1 KB > 3 2 þ 1 b 5 Y% I - b 9 23 * 1 72 * * Fl : TE: * : _-. 8 8 « OY E | 5 =; +87 - . : 74 : bh : i 7 v 1 | 23 ? [ * i 1 i - 94 The DuncraD. Book II. And empty words ſhe gave, and ſounding ftraing But ſenſeleſs, lifeleſs! Idol void and vain! Never was daſh'd out, at one lucky hit, A Fool, ſo juſt a copy of a Wit; 45 So like, that criticks ſaid and courtiers ſwore, A wit it was, and call'd the phantom, More; REMARK s. VERSE 43. Never was daſh'd out, at one lucky hit.) Our author here ſeems willing bs give ſome account of the poſſibility of Dulneſs making a Wir, (which could be done no other way than by chance.) The fiction is the more reconcil'd to probability by the known ſtory of Apelles, who being at a loſs to expreſs the form of Alexander's | Horſe, daſh'd his pencil in deſpair at the picture, and happen'd to do it by that fortunate ſtroke, 5 „3 VERSE 46. And call d the 1 More.] CURL in his Rey to the Dunciad, affirm'd this to be James Moore Smyth, Eſq, and it is — (confidering what is ſaid of him in the Teſtimonies) that ome might fancy our author obliged to repreſent this gentleman as a Plagiary, or to paſs for one himſelf, His caſe indeed was like that of a man I have heard of, who as he was ſitting in company, perceived his next neighbour had ftollen his handkerchief. Sir (ſaid the Thief, finding himſelf detected) do nor expoſe me, I did ir for ** mere want: be ſo good bur to take ir privately out of ny pocker * again, and ſay nothing.” The honeſt man did ſo, but the other _ ery'd out, See Gentlemen: what a Thief we have among us! look, e be is ftealin my handkerchief.” : | _ | Some time before, he had borrowed of Dr. Arburthnot a paper cal- Fd an Hiftorico-phyſical account of rhe South Sea; and of Mr. Pope the Memoirs of a Pariſh Clark, which: for two years he v 10 and read to the Rev. Dr. Dung, Biller, Eſq; and many others, as. his own. Being apply'd to for them, he pretended they were loſt; bur there happening to be another copy of the Letter, it came out in: Swift and Pope's Miſcellanies. Upon this, it ſeems he was fo far miſtaken as to confeſs his proceeding by an endeavour to hide it: un- guardedly — >. the Daily Journal of April 3. 1728.) © That the contempt which he and others had for thoſe two pieces (which _ © only himſelf had ſhown, and handed about as his own) occaſioned their being loft, and for that cauſe only, not returned. A fact, of | * * but he could be conſcious, none but he could be the 6 This young Gentleman's whole misfortune was too inordinate + [ns to be thought a Wit. Here is a very ſtrong inſtance, atteſted y Mr. Savage ſon of the late Earl Rivers, who having ſhown ſome verſes of his in manuſcript to Mr. Moore, wherein Mr. Pope was call'd firſt of the tuneful train, Mr. Moore the next morning ſent to Mr. Sa. vage to deſire him to give thoſe verſes another turn, ro wit, That Pepe might now be the firſt, becauſe Moore had left him unrival'd in turning his ſtyle to a ye bo ” This was during the rehearſal of the Rival Modes, his firſt and only work; the Town condemned it in the action, but he printed it in 1726-7 with this modeſt Motto, | AEic caſtus, artemque repo, r An; — Le —& . LY * =_ YT 5 oP; So Ho, Es IT DDr 7 Fr.. ͤ ¹bwͥ¹.¹ꝛ « q aoproagr not a 2 F RAE ² "49 abi et, ORR - » L © ere OE OO AEDT aA r ; | | _ r DAS 4 ny Er Br 2 Book II. The Do Nei AD. og All gaze with ardour: ſome, a Poet's nne : , - Others, a ſword-knot and lac'd ſuit inflame. i But lofty Lintot in the circle roſe: 5 | . 1 50 «© Tay prize-is mine ; who tempt it, are my foes : | « With me began this genius, and ſhall end. He ſpoke, and who with Lintot ſhall contend 2 . Fear held them mute, Alone untaught to fear, Stood dauntleſs Curl, Behold that rival here | | LY Y REMARK Ss. 0 J . 5 „ | 2 * The ſmaller pieces which we have heard attributed to this author. to FF are, An Epigram on the Bridge at Blenheim, by Dr. Evens , Coſmelia, 5 by Mr. Pit, Mr. Jones, &c. The Mock-marriage of a mad Divine, to witha Cl or a Parſon. by Dr. L. The Saw-Pit, a Simile, by a is Friend. Certain Phyſical works on Sir James Baker ; wy ſome un hat own'd Letters, Advertiſements and Epigrams againſt our author in kas the Daily Journal. FP Ba TK. 8 | hat Notwithſtanding what is here collected of the Perſon imagined bx ved (Curl to be meant in this place, we cannot be of that opinion; fince the our Poet had certainly no need of vindicating half a dozen verſes to for himſelf which every reader had done for him; ſince the name itſelf ker | is not ſpell'd Moore but Mere; and laſtly, fince the learned Scribleras- her has ſo well prov'd the contrary. 2 ; | 9 VERSE 46. The Phantom, More.] It appears from hence chat this a1: zs not the name of a real perſon, but fictitious; Afore from N. — ultus, N αο e., ſtultitia, ro repreſent the folly of a Plagiary. Thus ty 1 Haan, 3 me Mori — tibi, quod tam ad 2 vocaba- lum accedit quam es ipſe a re alienus, Dedication of Moria Encomion to Sir Tho, More; the Farewell of which may be our Author's to his. 1 ary. Vale More! & Moriam tuam gnaviter defende, Adien More, and be ſure ſtronglyto defend thy own folly, | ; 252.5 = 5 e eee e = | SCRIBLERUS,. > Fr. | mw 'Z VERSE 49; But lo 7 Eintdt.} We enter here upon the epiſode 0 6 df the Bookſellers : perions, whoſe names being more known and fa- « ; mous in the learned world than thoſe of the authors in this Poem, te deo therefore need leſs explanation, The action of Mr. Lintot here | Imitrares that of Dares in Virgil, rifing juſt in this manner to lay hold be 4 on a _ This eminent Bookſeller printed the Riva! Ad aboves mn mentioned. | 1 VERS E 54. Stood dauntleſs Curl, & c.] We come now to a charac- 8 ter of much reſpect, that of Mr. Edmund Curl, As a plain repetition. 1 of great actions is the beſt praiſe of them, we ſhall only ſay of this oY eminent Man, that he carried the Trade many lengths beyond what , & | Itever before had arrived at, and that he was the envy and admirati- EY on of all his profeſſion. He. poſſeſt himſelf of a command over all aua > * thors whatever; he caug'd them to write what he pleas d; they could not call their yery names their own... He was not only famous among gs The Dunaia D. Book I 55 The race by vigor, not by vaunts is won; W So take the hindmoſt Hell.— He ſaid, and run. 1 Swift as a bard the bailiff leaves behind, 1 He left huge Lintot, and out-ſtript the wind. As when a dab-chick waddles thro the copſe, 60 On feet and wings, and flies, and wades, and hops; 5 « a 1 M . Ge” 44 2 R EN. R X. G. = theſe z he was taken notice of by the State, the Church, and the Law. and received particular marks of diſtinction from each. | It will be own'd that he is here introduc'd with all poſſible digni- ors he ſpeaks like the intrepid Diomed ; he runs like the ſwift footed chilles,, if he falls, tis like the beloved Niſus ; and (what Homer makes to be the chief of all praiſes) he is favonr'd of the God:: He ſays but three words, and his prayer is heard; a Goddeſs conveys it 'To the ſear of RS Tho” he loſes the prize, he gains the victory; the great Mother her ſelf comforts him, ſhe. u him with expe- dients, ſhe honours him with an_ immortal preſent (ſuch as Achilles receives from Thetis and Æneas from Venas) at once inſtructive and propherical: After this, he is unrival'd and triumphant, The tribute our author here pays him, is a grateful return for ſe- veral unmerired obligations: Many weighty animadverſions on the Publick affairs, and many excellent and diverting pieces on private Perſons, has he given to his name. If ever he ow'd two verſes to any | other, he o- d Mr. Curl ſome thouſands. He was every day extend- ing his fame, and inlarging his writings : witneſs innumerable in- ſtances! bur ir ſhall ſuffice only to mention the couri- Poems, which be | _ meant to publiſh as the work of the true writer, a Lady of quality; 3 bur being firſt threaten d, and afterwards puniſh'd, for it by Mr. Pope, he generouſly rransferr'd it from her to him, and has now print- ed it twelve years in bis name. The fingle time that ever he ſpoke to C. was on that affair, and to that happy incident he owes all the : favours fince received from him. So true is the ſaying of Dr. Sydew | Sum, that any one ſhall be, at ſome time or other, the better or | = the worſe, for baving bur ſeen or ſpoken to a good, or a bad man. EMAEFTAT IONS; VERS E 54, &r.] Something like this is in Homer, II. 10. ver: 220. of Diomed. Two different manners of the ſame author in his Similies, are alſo imitated in the two following; the firſt of the Bailif, is ſhort, unadorn'd, and (as the Critics well know) from Fa- wmiliar life ; the ſecond of the Water-fowl more extended, pictureſque; and from rural life, The 55th verſe is likewiſe a literal tranſlation of one in Homer. : | i VERSE 56. So 1ake-the hindmoſt Hell.) Horace de Art, = Occupet exiremum ſcabies ; mihi turpe relinqui eſt, | VERSE 60, On feet 1 and flies, and wades, and hops; ©: Co lab ring on, with ſhoulders, hands, and head.] Milton, lib. 2. | So eagerly the fiend : | 99 5 Oer beg, o'er ſteep, thro? ſtrait, rough, _ or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, purſues his way, And ſwims, or ſinks, or wade, er creeps, or filts, e — 4 x „ 2 . * >. 44 4 2 x J 22 9 en 8 ad } ä 3 ä nee 3 N mi p* 5c bs . * . ” — 4 - * 4 £ r * —— 2 * age 2 is; o ” e 4 62644 tals <= 8 5 re errno . eee 2 rn ee e e n ; bo CON. > + Sr 9 * 5 Dr 1 n £ r — — RR * 2 7 * SY nay PTS Me . Ms JJV 3 — — 1 $97 n — X Nn l - —— K — . —— Book II. The Dux IAD. 97 So lab'ring on, with ſhoulders, hands, and head, wide as a windmill all his figure ſpread, 5 With legs expanded Bernard urg'd the race, And ſeem'd to emalate great Jacob's pace. 65 Full in the middle way there ſtood a lake, Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that morn to make, (Such was her wont, at early dawn to drop Her evening cates before his neighbour's ſhop,) Here fortun'd Curl to ſlide ; loud ſhout the band, 70 And Bernard! Bernard! rings thro” all the Strand. Obſcene with filth the Miſcreant lies bewray'd, Fal'n in the plaſh his wickedneſs had lay d; REMARKS. VERSE 66.) Curl's Corinna. ] This name it ſeems was taken by one Mrs. I, who procured ſome private Letters of Mr. Pepe's, while almoſt a boy, to Mr. Cromwell, and fold them without the conſent ok either of thoſe gentlemen to Curl, who printed them in 12 1727. He has diſcover'd her to be the Publiſher in his Key, p. 11. But our Poet had no thought of reflecting on her in this paſſage ; on the con- trary, he has been inform'd ſhe is a decent woman and in misfortunes, We only take this opportunity of mentioning the manner in which thoſe Letters got abroad, which the author was aſham'd of as very tri- vial things, full not only of levities, but of wrong judgments of men _— and only excuſable from the youth and inexperience ok ihe writer, | | | 5 VERSE 71. Obſcene with filth, &c.] Tho' this incident may ſem too low and baſe for the dignity of an Epic Poem, the learned ve well know it to be but a copy of Homer and Virgil, the very words OyI& and Fimus are uſed by them, tho? our Poet (in compliance to % modern nicety) has remarkably enrich'd and colour'd his lan 5 as well as rais d the verſification, in theſe two Epiſodes. Mr. 20m. wen in Mac-Fleckyo has not ſcrupled to mention the Morning JA at which the fiſhes bite in the Thames, Piſſing Ally, Reliques of * Bum, Whip:ſtich, Kiſs ” | » &c. but our author is more grave, and (as a fine writer ſays of Virgil in his Georgics) toſſes about his Dung with an air of Majeſty, If we confider that the Exerciſes of his Authors could with juſtice be no higher than T. Ng Chatt'ring, Braying, or Diving, it was no eaſy matter to invent ſuch Games as were proportion'd to the meaner degree of Bookſellers, In H. mer and Virgil, Ajax and Niſws, the Perſons drawn in this plight are Heroes ,. whereas here they are ſuch, with whom ir had been great impropri to have . any but vile ideas; beſides the — connection there is, between Libellers and common Nuſances. Nevertheleſs 1 have often heard our author own, that this part of his Poem was (ag it frequently happens) what coſt him moſt trouble, and pleaz'd him 588 The na Beck. e * * 2533 r \ r - $ pe * A ** 1 * Nr ee 4 4 + % 7 8 D k FOOD x ? . 2 — r NN en 4 ; 4 — n * + 5 " * IT, ene * M4; * » n — — 2 : on 10 rr n 12 * 8 . ; WA * N „ 9 z _ * r 1 bo + n „ „ y 5 ” „ -w-449 "£8 Dunciad (where are ſome marginal corre&ions of ſome ntlemen ſome time deceas d) I have found another reading of theſe es, thus, | 8 | And lifts bis urn thro half the heav'ns to flow; | Hlis rapid waters in their paſſage glow, | ; 85 This I cannot bur think the right: For firſt, tho the difference be- tween burn and glow may ſeem not very material to others, to me I confeſs the latter has an el my a Jeneſcay quoy, which is much eaſier to be conceiv'd than explain*d... Secondly, every reader of our Poet muſt have obſerv'd how frequently he uſes this word glow in other parts of his works: To inſtance only in his Homer. (I.) Iliad 9. v. 726. With one reſentment glows, . (2.) Iliad 11. v. 626. here the battle glows, N (3.) Ibid. 985. The clofing fleſb that inſlant ceas'd to glow. (4.) Il. I2, Ve 35. N ade og Encompaſi d Hector glows. ; ; = His beating breaſt with gen rous ardour glows; (6:) Iliad 18. v. $91. — Another part glow'd with refulgent arms. (7.) Ibid. v. 654. And curl d on filver props in erder glow. Fam afraid of growing too luxuriant in examples, or 1 could | — fretch this catalogue to a great extent, but theſe are enough to prove his fondneſs for this beautiful word, which therefore let all future Editions re- place here. : | WO Iam aware after all, that burn is the proper word to convey an idez- of what was ſaid to be Mr. curl's condition at that time. Bur from that very reaſon I infer the dire& contrary. . For ſurely every lover of our author will conclude he had more humanity, than to inſult a man on ſuch a misfortue or calamity, which could never befal him purely by. his own fault, but from an unhappy co 9 another, This Net e is partly Mr. THEOBALD, partly SCRIBL IMITATIONS. | VERSE 175. So (fam'd like thee for turbulence and hoyns) Eridanus.] Virgil mentions theſe two qualifications of Eridanus, Geor, 4 Et gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu, | IE | Eridanas, quo non alius per pinguia culta In mare parpureum violentior eſſtait amnis, The Poets fabled of this River Eridanus, that it flow'd throw the skies. Denham, Cooper's Hill, | Heav'n her Eridanus no. more ſhall boaſt, beſe Fame like thine in leſſer currents loft, | Thy nobler ſtream ſhall viſit Jove's abodes, Ip ſhine among the ſtars, and bathe the Gods, . 3 108 The Dunciav. Book II Thro' half the heav'ns he pours th' exalted urn; His rapid waters in their paſſage burn. _ Swift as it mounts, all follow with their eyes; 380 Still happy Impudence obtains the prize. | Thou triumph'R, viftor of the high-wrought day, And the pleas'd dame ſoft-ſmiling leads away. Chetwood, thro perfect modeſty o'ercome, Crown'd with the Jordan, Walks contented home. 18 5 But now for Authors nobler palmg remain: Room for my Lord! three Jockeys in his train; Six huntſmen with a ſhout precede his chair; Fe grins, and looks broad nonſenſe with a ſtars. His honour'd meaning, Dulneſs thus expreſt ; 190 * He wins this Patron who can tickle beſt.” He chinks his purſe, and takes his feat of ſtate: . With ready quills the dedicators wait; : | Now at his head the dext'rous task commence, And inſtant, fancy feels th imputed ſenſe ; 19 5 Now gentle touches wanton o'er his face, He ſtruts Adonis, and affects grimace: Rolli the feather t6 E ear conveys... Then his nice taſte dire&s our Operas : | welſted his mouth with Claſſic flatt'ry opes, 200 And the puff d Orator burſts out in tropes. But Oldmixon the Poet's healing balm $trives to extra from his ſoft, giving cath ; REMARKS. VERSE 197. Paolo Antonio Rolls. an Haliun Poet, I writer of many Operas in that language, whi ch, partly by the help of his we nius, prevail'd in England near ten years, EE VERSE 199. Nelſted. See Note on verſe 295. of this Book. VERSE 20. Bu Oldmixon, &c,} Mr. John Oldmixon (next to Mr. Dennis the moſt ancient Critick of our Nation) not ſo happy as labo- rious in Poetry, and therefore perhaps hade d by * 2 | * * Book II. The DoxcrAp. 109 ' Unlucky Oldmixon! thy lordly maſter "= " 5 The more thou tickleſt, gripes his fiſt the faſter, „ F205 While thus each hand promotes the pleaſing pain And quick ſenſations skip from vein to vein, __ J Di A youth unknown to Phoebus, in deſpair, - TY Puts his laſt refuge all in Heav'n and Pray r. =_ What force have pious vows ? the Queen of Love 210 His Siſter ſends, her vot'reſs, from above. As taught by Venus, Paris learnt the art * Iꝙ0o touch Achilles only tender part; | 1 Secure, thro* her, the noble prize to carry, 1 He marches off, his Grace's Secretary. 5 z 215 Now turn to diff rent ſports (the Goddeſs cries) And learn, my ſons, the wond'rous pow'r of Noiſe. ' ne. Ws REMARKS. Ne 62. by the name of 'Omicron the unborn Poet. CURL, Rey to the D. p. 13. An unjuſt cenſurer of Mr. Addiſon, whom in his imitation of boahours (call'd the Arts of Logic and Rhetoric) he miſrepreients in plain matter of fact. In p. 48. cites the Spedtator as abuſing Dr. Swift by name, where there is not the leaſt hint of it: And in p. zog. '© js ſo injurious as to ſuggeft, that Mr. Addiſon himſelf writ that Tarler NI. 43. which ſays of his own Simile, that tis as great as ever en- | '* tend into the mind of man. This perſon wrote numbers of books ' whichare not come to our knowledge. Dramatick works, and a volume of Poetry, conſiſting of heroic Epiſtles, &. ſome where. # © of are very well done, faith that great Judge Mr. JACOB, Liver , Poets, Vol. 2. p. 303. | = | I. remember 2 Paſtoral of his on the Battle of Blenheim ; a Critical # Hiſtory of England; Eſſay on Criticiim, in proſe; The Arts of Lo- ' Bic and Rhetoric, in which he frequently reflects on our Author. We find in the Flying-Poſt of April 13. 1728. ſome very flat verſes of his againſt him and Dr. Sw. He was all his life a hired writer for a Party, and received his reward in a ſmall place which he yer enjoys. VE RS E 207, A youth unknown to Phœbus, &ec.] The ſatire of this 18 85 Epiſode being levelled at the baſe flatteries of authors to worthleſs r of wealth or greatneſs, concludeth here with an excellent leſſon to ge- ſuch men; That altho' their pens and praiſes were as exquiſite ag | they eonceit of themſelves, yet — in their own mercenary views) 2 | creature unlettered, who ſerveth the paſſions, or r to the Mr, I Pleaſures of ſuch vain, braggart, puft Nobility, ſhall with thoſe pa- abo: Tons be much more inward, and of them much higher rewarded, SCRIBLERUS, | *T7s yours to ſbake, &c. 1x0 The Dux ci AD. Book II To move, to raiſe, to raviſh ev'ry heart, With Shakeſpear's nature, or with Johnſo * 4 rt, | | Let others aim: *Tis yours to ſhake the ſoul 220 With thunder rumbling from the muſtard-bowl, With horns and trumpets now to madneſs ſwell, Now fink in ſorrows with a tolling Bell. | Such happy arts attention can command, When fancy flags, and ſenſe is at a ffand. 225 Improve we theſe. Three cat- calls be the bribe Of him, whoſe chatt ring ſhames the Monkey tribe; And his this Drum, whoſe hoarſe heroic baſe Drowns the loud clarion of the braying Aſs. Now thouſand tongues are heard in one loud din: | 230 The Monkey-mimicks ruſh diſcordant in. EY . FT 4 . „ STOBE 2729 por IALE 3 : 4 4 N * * 3 * 83 ; : Twas chatt' ring, grinning, mouthing, jabb'ring all, ; And Noiſe, and Norton, Brangling, and Breyal, Dennis and Diſſonance; and captious Art, And Snip-ſnap ſhort, ' and 'Interruption ſmart. RX E NM AR KS. j VE RSE 320. With Thunder rumbling from the muſtard-bowl.] The | eld way of making Thunder and Muſtard were the fame, but fince it is more advantagiouſly perform'd by troughs of wood with ſtops in them. Whether Mr. Dennis was the inventor of that improvement, I. know not; but it is certain, that being once at a Tragedy of a new Author, with a friend of his, he fell. into a great paſſion ar hearing ſome, and cry'd, * S'death ! that is my Thunder. IMITATIONS. EET: 25 eee eee n VERSE 217. To move, to raiſe, . Let others aw — | J Virg. Kn. 6. Excudent alii ſpirantia mollius æra, Fredo equidem, vives ducant e marmor vultus, &c. Tw, regere imperio populos, Remane, memento, Ha tibi erunt artes a 6h VERSE 225. Three Catcalls,) Certa in muſical inftruments uſed by dne ſort of Criticks to confound the Poets of the Theatre. VERS E 232. Norton [See verſe 383. J. Durant Breval, Author of 2 very extraordinary Book of Travels, and ſome Poems. Sec before, \ . s 4. femme II. Book II. The DUN cIA D. 111 235 Hold (cry'd the Queen) A Catcall each ſhall win, „ 3 Equal your merits! equal is your din! | N But that this well · diſputed game may end, . Sound forth, my Brayers, and the weilkin rend. al As:when the long-ear'd milky mothers wait 2340 Ar ſome ſick miſer's triple-bolted gate, ; For their defrauded, abſent foals they make E A moan ſo loud, that all the Guild awake, gore ſighs Sir G * *, ſtarting at the bray be: i From dreams of millions, and three groats to pay? 2345 So ſwells each Windpipe; Aſs intones to Aſs, Harmonic twang ! of leather, horn, and braſs. Suchas from lab'ring lungs th Enthuſiaft blows, High ſounds, attempred to the vocal noſe. . But far o'er all, ſonorous Blackmore's ſtrain, 250 Walls, ſteeples, skies, bray back to him again: In Tot'nam fields, the brethren with amaze Prick all their ears up, and forget to graze ; TMITATIONS. VE RSE 235. A Catcall each ſhall win, &c.] Virg, Ecl. 3. Non inter nos eſt tantas componere lites, : Et vitula tu dignus, & hi — VERS E 240. ] ASimile with a long tail, in the manner of Homer. ing | VERSE 250, ray back, to him again A figure of ſpeech taken from Virgil, | | Et vox aſſenſu nemorum ingeminata remugit. N woe He wg num ron: — low oer the-plaiy, | e 1 While neighb' ring hills lom back to them again, Cowley, — The Poet here celebrated, Sir R B. delighred much in the word Gray, whichhe endeavoured to ennoble by applying ir to the ſound of Armour, War, &c. In imitation of him, oy — by is authority, our author has here admitted it into Heroic poetry. VERSE 252, Prick all their ears wp, and forget to graxt. ] virg. FEcl. 8. | | | e by Immemor herbarum quos eft mirata juvenca, FEY . | - Theprogreſs of the ſound from place to place, and the ſcena * 2 Ip — enz Kendall * — erde feldr, Chancer-lane, the ——_ | 4 E[19737ZN(Ler-)"2 an ungerſora-frearrs, Are imitat om Fire.- Fe, 2. on the founding the horn of Aledo, Firg, wits Audiit & Trivia longe lacus, audiit amnis $#/phprea- Nar albul agua, Fonjeſqn Velini, &c, ——— Og AI7 cs RO 112 The Du NcIAD. Book] 4 Long Chanc'ry-lane retentive rolls the ſound D And courts to courts return it round and round: 1 Chancery are kept: The long detention of Glients in thoſe — in theſe lines. I 3 Books, and many more. Tis in this ſenſe he is ſtiled afterwards, «. the Everlaſting Blackmore, Notwithſtanding all which, Mr. Gillon - But how different is the judgment of the author of characters of the Times? P- 23. who ſays, © Sir Richard is unfortunate in happening * ro miſtake his proper talents, and that he has not for many years * been ſo much as named, or even thought of among writers.” Even Mr. Dennis differs greatly from his friend: Mr. Gilden: Blackmore's Action (faith he) has neither _— nor integrity, nor morality, ' * nor univerſality ; and conſequently he can have no Fable, and no & Heroic Poem: His Narration is neither probable, delightful, nor * wonderful : His Characters have none of the neceſſary qualificati- ons. The things contain'd in his narration are neither in „their own nature delightful, nor numerous enough, nor rightly ** diſpoſed, nor furpriſing, nor patheric. — Nay he proceeds fo far as to ſay Sir Richard has no Genius; firſt laying down that Genius ** is cauſed by a furious joy and pride of ſoul, on the conception of an * extraordinary Hint, Many men (ſays he) have their Hints, without ** theſe morions of fury and pride of ſoul, becauſe they want fire enough to agitate their ſpirir< , and theſe we call cold writers: Others who have 2 great deal of fire, but have not excellent organs, feel the foremention'd xzotions, without the extraordinary hints, f And theſe we call fuſtian writers. But he declares, that Sir Ri- * chard had neither the Hints, nor the Motion,. Remarks en Pfr. Arth. 89. 1696. Preface, | | | | This genrleman in his firſt works abuſed the character of Mr. Dry- 6 den, and in his laſt of Mr. Pope, accuſing him in very high and ſober termsof prophaneneſs and immorality (Efay on polite writing, Vol. 2. | 2 270.) on a meer report from Edm. Curl, that he was author of 2 ; Traveſt ie on the firſt Pſalm. Mr, Dennis took up the ſame report, but with the addition of what Sir Richard had neglected, an Aer. | men rr n * KEE wum r > 1 — o 2 * erer | ! A ( Remar . Book II. The DUN TAD. 113 This labour paſt, by Bridewell all deſcend, Þ 260 (As morning-pray'r and flagellation end.) To where Fleet-ditch with diſemboguing ſtreams. Rulls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The King of Dykes! than whom, no ſluice of mud With deeper ſable blots the ſilver flood. | REMARKS. ment to prove it; which being very curioue, we ſhall her̃e tranſcribe; * on Homer. $9. p. 27.) It was he who burleſqu'd the Pfalny « of David. It is apparent to me that Pſalm was burleiqu'd by a Po- «* iſh rhymeſter. Let rhyming perſons who have been brought up e Proeftants be otherwiſe what they will, let them be Rakes, ler em * be Scoundrels, let em be Arbeit yet education has made an in- *«-yincible impreſſion on them in If of the ſacred writings. But 2 Pop!ſh rhymeſter has been brought up with a contempt for thoſe * (acred writings, Now ſhow me another Popiſh rhymeſter but „ he This manner of argumentation is uſual with Mr Den- vit; he has employ'd the fame againſt Sir Richard himſelf in a like: charge of Impiety and Irrel gion. All Mr. Blackmore's celeſtial ma- * chines, as they cannot be defended ſo much as by common receiv'd: opinion, ſo are directly contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England: For the viſible deſcent of an Angel muſt be a miracle. * Now it is the doctrine of the Church of England, that miracles had * ceas'd a long time before Prince Arthur came into the world. Now” jf the doctrine of the Church of England be true, as we are oblig'd * to believe, then are all the celeftial machines in Prince Arthur un * ſufferable, as wanting not only human but divine probability. gut if the machines are ſufferable, that is if they have ſo much as_ divine probability, then ir follows of neceſſity that the doctrine of A the Church is falſe: So leave it to every impartial Clergyman to- * conſider, &c. Preface to the Remarks on Prince Arthur. | It has been ſuggeſted in the Character of Mr. P. that he had Obli- ations 5 Sir R B. He never had any, and never faw him but twice. in his Life. : | VERSE 260. As morning pray'r and flagellation end.] Tt is between eleven and twelve in the morning, after Church ſervice, that che cri- ” minals are whipp'd in Bridewell, — This is to mark 1 the Time of the day: Homer does it by the circumſtance of the Judges riſ- ing from court, or of the Labourers dinner ; our author by one very Proper both to the Perſons and the Scene of his Poem 3 which we may remember commenc'd in the evening of the Lord-mayor's day: The firſt book paſſed in that night; the pext morning the games begin in the Srrand, thence along Fleet. ſtreet (places inhabited by Book-- ſellers) then they proceed by Bridewell toward Fleetdirch, and laſtly: mhro' Ludgate to the City and the Temple of the Goddeſs, 885 VERSE 261. The Diving ] This I fancy (favs a great Enemy to the Poem) is a Game which no body could ever think of but the Aut hot: however it is worked up admirably well, eſpecially in thoſe lires where he deſcribes Exſden (he ſhould: ſay medley) riſing up again ESSAY on the DUNCIAD, p. 19. * oy . 8 — 222 — 114 The Du NcIA D. Book II. 265 Here ſtrip My children! here at once leap in! « Here prove who beſt can daſh thro' thick and thin, « And who. the moſt in love of dirt excel, | ( Or dark dexterity of groping well. 1 =_ « Who flings moſt filth, and wide pollutes around | 270 The ſtream, be his the Weekly Journals, bound. « A pig of lead to him who dives the beſt. « A peck of coals a-piece ſhall glad the reſt, In naked majeſty great Dennis ſtands, And, Milo-like, ſurveys his arms and hands, REMARKS: VERSE 266, 267, 268.] Three chief qualifications of Party-wri- | ters; to ſtick at nothing, to delight in flinging dirt, and to ſlander. in the dark by gueſs. | _— : - VERSE 270. The Weekly Journals.) Papers of news and ſcandal intermix'd, on different fides and parties, and frequently ſhifting- from one fide to the other, call'd the London Journal, Miſt's Journal, Britiſh Journal, Daily Journal, &c. The writers of which for ſome time were Welfted, Rcome, Molloy, Concanen, and others; perſons ne- ver ſeen by our author. k . ; VERSE 272. A peck of coals a-piece.] Our indulgent Poet, when-. ever he has ſpoken of any dirty or low work, conſtantly put us in. mind of the Poverty of the offenders, as the only extenuation of ſuch practices. Let any one but remark, when a Thief, a Pickpocket, 2 -Highwaywan, or a Knight of the Poſt is « Lang of, how much our hatred ro thoſe characters is lefſen'd, if they add, a needy Thief, a _ CT a hungry Highwayman, a Garving Knight of the. 7 , OI | VERSE 273. In naked 'majefly great Dennis. ſtands.) The reader who hath ſeen in the courſe of theſe notes, what a conſtant attendance Mr. Dennis paid to our author, might here expect a particular regard to be ſhewn him; and conſequently may be ſurprized at his finking at once, in ſo few lines, never to riſe again! But in truth he locked upon him with ſome eſteem, for having, more generouſly than the reſt, ſer his name to ſuch works. He was not only a formidable Critick who for many years had written againſt every thing that had ſucceſs, (the Antagoniſt of Sis Richard ee Sir Richard Steele, Mr, Ad- diſon, and Mr. Pope) but a zealous Politician (not only appearing in his works, where Poetry and the State are always equally concerned, bur in many ſecret Hints and ſage advices given to ghe Miniſters of: all reigns. He is here likened to Milo, in allufion to chat verſe of Ovid. on Fletque Milon ſenior, tum ſpectat inanes | g Hercules fiobles, and, pendere lacertos; os ; FPither with regard to his great Age, or becauſe he was undone by | 5 crying to pull to pieces an Oak that was too ſtrong for him. [ Remember Milo's End, 5 | Haag d in that timber which he firove te rand, -. Tord N ſlander- ſcandal hifting- Journal, r ſome, INS ne- when- t us in. of ſuch cket, a ich our of the. er who ndance regard king at looked an the | Critick ſucceſs, Ar. Ada ring in cerned; ſters of f Ovid; | lone by d Rofei years more, and 1s already Work: whereas: Mr. hief, 2 7 Book II. The D nc 4b. ru 5 | 275 Then ſighing, thus. And am I now threeſcore ?* « Ah why, ye Gods! ſhould two and two make four? He ſaid, and climb'd a ſtranded Lighter's height, Shot to the black abyſs, and plung'd down- right. The Senior's judgment all the crowd admire, I 280 Who hut to fink the deeper, roſe the higher. Next Smedley div'd ; ſlow circles dimpled oer The quaking mud, that clos'd, and.ope'd no more. All look, all ſigh, and call on Smedley loſt ; Smedley in vain reſounds thro all the coaſt, . R E M A R K S. VERSE 276. — And am I now threeſcore?] I ſhall here, to prove wy apa e, remark a great overſight in our author as to the age of Mr. Dennis. He muſt have been {ome years above threeſcore in the Mayoralty of Sir George Thorold, which was in 1720, and: Mr. Dennis was born (as he 8 i wang des 2 — 1 —— mentioned) in 1657 ; ſince when he has happily liv'd eighe 3 , ſenior 00 pos. Denys who hitherto of all S enjoy'd the longeſt, bodily, Life. : 5 ERS E 2175 Next Smedley div'd.] In the ſurreptitious editions this whole Epiſode, was apply'd to an initial letter ·f , by whom if they meant the. Laureate, 8 was more abſurd, no part agreeing with his character. The, Allegory evidently de- mands- a perſon dipp'd in ſcandal, and deeply immers d in dirty Euſden s writings rarely offended but by their length and mulritude, and accordingly are tax d of nothing elſe in bock 1. verſe oz. But the perſon here mention'd, an Jriſb. man, was author and publiſher of many ſcurrilous pieces, a weekly Whi:ebal{ Journal in the year 1722, in the name of Sir James Baker, and pary ticularly whole Volumes of Billingſgate againſt Dr. Swift and Mr, Pope, call'd Gulliveriana and Ale xandriana, printed in 8*. 17238, IMITATIONS. VERSE 263. The King of Dykes, G Virg, - Eridanus, rex fluuiorum quo non alius, per pinguia culta, N. mare purpureum violentior eſfluit ammis, © | VERSE 283. - and call on Smedley loft, &c.] Lord Rſcams mon's tranſlation of Virgibs 6th Eclog. | | | Alcides wept in vain for Hylas loft, Hylas iz vain reſounds thro all the coaſt. | | | : 2 — — — 1 ; [ | il 2 0 N a 1 8 who hear, - 116 TheDunxciap. Book II. 285 Then * * try'd, but hardly ſnatch'd from fight, Inſtant buoys up, and riſes into light; He bears no token of the ſabler ſtreams, And mounts far off, among the ſwans of Thames. True to the bottom, ſee Concanen creep, 290 A cold, long-winded, native of the deep! If perſeverance gain the Diver's prize, Net everlaſting Blackmore: this. denies : No noiſe, no ſtir, no-motion can'ſt thou make, | Th: unconſcious flood ſleeps o'er thee like a lake. 295, Not Welſted ſo-:. drawn endlong by his ſcull,, Furious he ſinks; precipitately dull. VERSE 2 . Then * try d.] This is an inſtance of the Tenders. neſs of our author. The perſon here intended writ an angry pre- againſt him, grounded on a Miſtake, which he afterwards ho- nourably acknowledg'd in another prinred preface. Since when, he fell under a ſecond*miſtake, and abug'd both him and his Friend. .- He is a writer of Genius and Spirit, tho' in his youth he was guilty of ſome pieces bordering upon bombaſt. Our Poet here gives im a Panegyric inſtead of a Satire, being edify'd e meaſure, at this only inſtance he ever met with in his life, of one who was much à Poet, confeſſing himſelf in an Error: And has ſuppreſt his Name, as thinking him capable of a ſecond repentance. | VERS E 289. Concanen.] In the former editions there were only. | | Aſtericks in this place; this name was fince inſerted meerly to fill up |} verſe, and give eaſe to the Ear of the reader. | "i _ VERSE 295. 8 Leonard Wilfted, author of the Triumvirate, or a Letter in verſe from Palemon to Celia at Bath, which was meant r ; I y a 99 #55”, 4 __ NET. 3 for a Satire on Mr. P. and ſome of his friends about the year 1718. The ftrength of the metaphors in this paſſage is to expreſs the great | Eurrilicy and fury of this writer, which may be ſeen, One day, in 2 Piece of his, call'd (as I think) Zabeo. He writ other things which we cannot remember. Smedley in hrs Metam. of Scrib. mentions one, the Hymn of a Gentleman to the Creator, L. M characteris'd in the treatiſe me-BxIs gor the Art of finking as a Didapper, and after ay an Fel, is ſaid to be this Perſon, by DENNIS. Daily Journal of May 31, 1728, He is mentioned. again in book zz, IMITATIONS. VERSE 292. Not everlaſting Blackmore.) Virg. En. Fo Nic bonus Emrytion pralato invidit henori, &c. | 3 £ > t., Whirlpools and ſtorms his circling arm inveſt, with all the Might of gravitation bleſt. No crab more active in the dirty dance, 300 Downward to climb, and backward to advance; He brings up half the bottom on his head. And boldly claims the Journals and the Lead. Sudden, a burſt of thunder ſhook the flood. Lo Smedley roſe, in majeſty of mud! | 305 Shaking the horrors of his ample brows, And each. ferocious feature grim with ooze. VERSE 314. As Hylas fair.] Who was raviſh'd by the waters- nymphs and drawn into the river. The ſtory is told at large by Yale» 13u5 Flaccus, Lib. 3. Argon. See Hrg. Ecl 6, | | | VERSE 316, Cc. A branch of Styx, &c, Homer Il. 2. Catal, 0. app ingerdy TiTugnoroy eh ri pores. Os f* is Tyrefoy ve. A Fo dag, Odd 376 Tyree cuẽELcis e dgyv; od! ry, Anat Th A xabumeeder A 07” Ear Opxu 58 ters, Zr vSaTO, i dsf . Of the land of Dreams in the ſame region, he makes mention, Ody 24: See alſo Luci an's true Hiſtory. Letle and the Land of Dreams al- legorically repreſent the Stupe faction and viſionary Madneſs of Poets : oquply dull and extrivagant. Of Alphaus his waters gliding ſecret- e ly under the ſea of Piſa, to mix with thoſe of Arethuſe in S:cily, v oſchus Idyl. 8. Virg. Ecl. 10. ; a if ty, vids Sic tibi, cum flultus ſubter labere Sicanos, Dor is amara ſuam non intermiſceat wndan, And again, fn, 3. — Alphaum, fama eſt, buc Elidis amnem Occultas egiſſe ui as, ſubter mare, qui nunc Ore Arethuſa tuo, Siculis confunditur undis. CPT 1 VERSE 304. — in Majeſty of mud.) Miltof — in majeſty of darkneſs rende | YE. Circle ** ill ms The DunctaD. Book IL. | | Greater he looks, and more than mortal ſtares; Then thus the wonders of the Deep declares. Firſt he relates, how ſinking to the chin, 310 Smit with his mien, the Mud-nymphs ſuck'd him in: How young Lutetia, ſofter than the down, Nigrina black, and Merdamante brown, | Vy.d for his love in jetty bow'rs below; = As Hylas fair was raviſh'd long ago. 215 Then ſung, how ſhown him by the nutbrown "PIE A branch of Styx here riſes from the Shades, That tinctur d as it runs, with Lethe's ſtams, And wafting Vapours from the Land of Dreams, (As under ſeas Alphæus' facred fluice | 320 Bears Piſa's offerings to his Arethuſe) Pours into Thames: Each city-bowl is full Of the mixt wave, and all who drink grow dull. How to the- banks where bards departed doze, | They led him ſoft; how all the bards aroſe ; 325 Taylor, ſweet bird of Thames, majeſtic bows, And Shadwell nods the poppy. on his brows ; — - 2 F er * — 1 4 LET 8 8 V WN — ö —ͤ ² RIS: 0 en . * P ——— — ES, - 0 5 - c Wy * My 7 — g - ” „ . 298 8 . = ODS % . 0 e ET "++ ——— 8 * £ 8 4 \ 4 — ove d — PF >= F "Fs * . * _ RE N — — — neee NT Re 4 , . beer 7 4 "_ r oth « * . 1 4 , n - — e 7 : 5 n Fad AW > Frag. ace on " 23 1 5 eee 8 3 e Rm * * 1 TOES r 5 £ 8 , 2. - : ES)... 4: i : rr. 9, ha —— — ww oyee ps n Rad 8 Wen * 5 5 > 4709. ſb ron N b 222 = PP * q ee p * — x as 4 » 4 he — . a —— * eee eee eee REMARKS. | „ VERS E 325. Tailor, feet bird of Thames. ] John Taylor the wa- ; ter Poet, an honeſt man, who owns he learn'd not fo much as his Ae eidence:: a rare example of modeſty in a Poet I muft confeſs I do mant elequence, And never ſcarce did learn my Accidence, For having got from Poſſum te Poſſet, Fthere was gravell d, could no farther get. ie wrote fourſcore books in the rei Bo of James I. and Ch 1 7 and” Gi in 16 (like Mr. Inge 2 Pablick-houſe, in Leng Are, He In 1654. 5 IMITATIONS. VER S207; Greater he, look, an more than. mortal Pe Virg. <& by the Sybil. r e videri Kee or tal 0 ſonans =s — ——_ yr * B A . Book II. The Du Nx AD. 119 While Milbourn there; deputed by the reſt, Gave him the caſſock, ſurcingle, and veſt z And Take (he ſaid) theſe robes which once were 330 © Dulneſs is ſacred in a ſound Divine. (mine, He ceas d, and ſhow'd the robe; the crowd confeſi. The rev'rend Flamen in his lengthen'd dreſs. Slow moves the Goddeſs from the ſable flood, (Her Prieſt preceding) tbro the gates of Lud. 335 Her Criticks there ſhe ſummons, and proclaims A gentler exerciſe to cloſe the games. Hear you! in whoſe grave heads, as equal ſcales, E weigh what author's heavineſs prevails, Which moſt conduce to ſooth the ſoul in ſlumbers, . 240. My Henley's periods, or my Blackmore's numbers? ,- | oo A8MASEES VERSE 326. Und Shadwell hods the poppy Shadwell took Opĩum for many Years. and died of roo large a Dofe of it, in the year 16992. VERSE 327. While Milbourn,] Luke Milbourn a Clergyman, the faireftiof Criticks ; who when he wrote againſt Mr. Dryden's Virgil, did him juſtice, in printing at the ſame time his own tranſlations of him, which were intollerable. His manner of writinghas a great re. — with that of the Gentlemen of the Dunciad againſt our au- thor, as will be ſeen in the Parallel of Mr. Dryden and him. Append; VERSE 334. Gates of Lud.} © King Lud repairing the City, + * calldirafter his own name, Lud's Town; the ſtrong gate which: 4. | © he built in the Weſt part, he likewiſe for his own honour named 1 Ludgate. In the year 1260, this gate was beautified with images, of * of Lyd and other Kings. Thoſe Images in the 8 of Edward VE. * had their heads ſmitten off, and were otherwiſe defaced by unad- ©-viſed folks. Queen Mary did ſer new heads on their old bodies 5 again, =o 9 of Q. _ _ fo are was 2 oo” „and newly and-beautitully builded with images ot and Ot zs afore. STOW's Survey of London, 5 ps IMITATIONS: VERSE. 324, How to the banks, &c ] Virg. Ecl. 6. Tum: canit errantem Permeſſi ad flumina Gallum, Dique viro Phæbi chorus aſſurexerit omni ; 6 is Vt Linus hac illi divino carmine paſtor, | 4 or | Fleribus atque apio crines ornatus amaro, | Dixerat, Hos tibi dant calamos, en accipe, Ma, VAſer ao. quos ante ſeni x=w= $&c, | 5 23 by Ma 7 / l ron — „ „ cab q wy 2 Þ eee amy —— . — 0 8 4 a» 2 , 0 — —— _ 1 . r N 3 - = 2 2 — Aw „„ „ b —_ without perceivin 120 The nel AD. Book II. : Attend the trial we propoſe to make: If there be man who o'er ſuch works can "Wy © Sleep's all-ſubduing charm who dares defy, And boaſts Ulyſles' ear with Argus eye; 345 To him we grant our ampleſt pow'rs to ſit Judge of all preſent, paſt, and future wit, To cavil, cenſure, dictate, right or wrong, Full, and eternal privilege of tongue. | [came, Three Cambridge Sophs and three pert Templars 350 The ſame their talents, and their taſtes the ſame, Each prompt to query, anſwer, and debate, And ſmit with love of Poeſy and Prate. The pond'rous books two.gentle readers bring; The heroes fit ; the vulgar form a ring. 355 The clam'rous pd is huſh'd with mugs of Mum, Till all tun'd equal, ſend a gen'ral hum Then mount the clerks ; and in one lazy tone, Thro' the long, heavy, painful. page, draw] on; | Soft, creeping, words on words, the ſenſe compoſ, 360 At ev'ry line, they eretch, they yawn, they dc ONE... R EM AR E f. VERST 344.) See Hom, Odyſſ. 12, Ovid. Met. 1. VERSE 318. Thro* the PO, 12. painful page, &.] All theſe 1 tines very well imitate the flow drowzineſs with which they proceed, It is impoſſible for any one who has a poetical ear to read them, the heavineſs that lags in the verſe to imitate the action it deſcribes. The Simile of the Pines is very juſt and well adapted to the 8 ESSAY on the DNC. p. 21, IMITATIONS. Ambo florentes etatibus, Arcades ambo, Et certare pares, & reſpondere parati. VERSE. 354. The heroes ſit , the vulgar form 4 ring.) Ovid k M. 3, Conſed:re duces, & vulgi ſtante corona, | VERS E 353.1. Smit with the love of ſacred 11 — 5 Milton V ER SIE 350. The ſame their talent Each * &c 1 Yig F —_— ceo us irg · 2 Miniftry, ro whom he ſhow” that very Perſon w 2 bHyCVRL, Key to Dunc, to a But the context ſnowys t to be meant of 2 famous publick Orator, not Book II. The DuNciAD. 121 As to ſoft gales top-heavy pines bow low Their heads, and lift them as they ceaſe to blow, Thus oft they rear, and oft the head decline, As breathe, or pauſe, by fits, the airs divine: 365 And now to this fide, now to that, they nod, As verſe, or proſe, infuſe the drowzy God. Thrice Budgel aim'd to ſpeak, but thrice ſuppreſt, By potent Arthur, knock d his chin and breaſt, Toland and Tindal, prompt at Prieſts to jeer, 370 Yet ſilent bow d to Chriſt's No kingdom here. Who ſate the neareſt, by the words o'ercome Slept firſt, the diſtant nodded to the hum. Then down are roll'd the books; ſtretch'd oer em Ties Fach gentle clerk, and mutt'ring ſeals his eyes. 375 As what. a Dutchman plumps into the lakes, One circle firſt, and then a ſecond makes, REMARKS. VERS E:367, Thrice Bullgel aim'd to ſpeak.] Famous forhis ſpecchey | en many occaſions about the South Sea Scheme, &c. He is a very ingenious gentleman, and hath written ſome excellent Epilogues to Plays, and one ſmall piece on Love, which is very pretty.” JACOB Lives of Poets, vol. 2. p. 289. But this Gen has ſince made himſelf much more eminent, and perſonally well-known to the great- 2 of yy mw — i ni | R 369. Toland and Tindal.] Two perſons not ſo | to be obſcure, who wrir againſt the Religion of their or Phe ſurreptitious editions plased here che name of 2 Gentleman, who tho' no great friend to the Clergy, is a perſon of Morals and Ingenui- ty. Tinaal was Author of the Kights of the Chriſtian church: He alſo wrote an abuſive pamphler * Exrl Stanhope, Which was ſuppreſ- fed while yet in manuſcript by an — — Perfon then our of the it expectin Doctor afterwards e ſame — mutatis mutand is, agæinſt en he came into the Admin ſtration. | VERSE. zo. Chriſt's No kingdom, &c.] This is ſcandalouſſy faid ude to à Sermon of a reverend Biſhop. More remarkable for his long-winded periods, than his Difz to Ecclefiaſtical.fier e, zamectrion dom is of this world, Ach. and to the doctrine that Chiiſt's King: —— — . — rr as es a —— ed. et dypediovr tne ranged 1 — rin 2 N his approbation. This PFF ad ĩ˙¹m ⁵¼Vt . . ]⁵— oo 9 7 — —— I r | | | j | | | | | anſwer 122 The Duxncrap. Book II. What Dulneſs-dropt among her ſons impreſt Like motion, from one circle to the reſt ; So from the mid-moſt the nutation ſpreads 390 Round, and more round, o'er all the ſea of heads. At laſt Centlivre felt her voice to fail, — Old James himſelf unfiniſh'd left his tale, Boyer the State, and Law the Stage gave o'er, Nor Motteux talk'd, nor Naſo whiſper'd more ; REMARKS. . VERSE 39x. Centlivre.] Mrs. Suſunna Centliure, wife to Mr, Centlivre, Yeoman of the Mouth to his Majeſty. She writ many Plays, and a ſong (ſays Mr. Jacob, vol. 1. p. 32.) before ſhe was ſeven years old. She alſo writ a Ballad againſt Mr. Pepe's Homer before he begun At. | ; : VERSE 323. Boyer the State, and Law the Stage gave o'er.] A. Boyer, a voluminous compiler of Annals, Political Collections, Ce. Wiki. am Law, A. M. wrote with great zeal againſt the Stage. Mr. Denny d with as great. Their books were printed in 1726. Mr. Lan afirm'd that the Playhouſe is the Temple of the Devil, the * peculiar pleaſure of the Devil, where all they who go, yield to & the Devil, where all the 2 a laughter among Devils, and that all who are there are hearing Muſick in the very Porch of * Hell.” To which Mr. Dennis replicd, that © there is every jor as c much difference between a true Play, and one made by a Poetaſter, * 25 between Two religious books, the Bible and the Alcor an. Then he demonſtrates that all thoſe who had written againſt the Stage were Jacobites and Nonjuroys, and did it always at a time when ſome- * thing was to to be done for the Pretender. Mr. collier publiſh'd 4% his Short View when France declar'd for the Chevalier; and his DiF 4 * ſuaſive juſt at the great Storm, when the devaſtation which that Hurricane wrought had amazed and aſtoniſhed the minds of men, * and made them ↄbnoxious to melancholy and deſponding thoughts, 4 Mr.:Law took the opportunity to attack the Stage upon the great eparations he heard were making abroad, and which rhe Jacobite: < pr | = — themſelves were deſign'd in their favour, And as for Mr, c Bedford 's Seriaus Remonſirance, tho I know nothing of the time of yet I dare to lay odds it was either upon the Duke * Publiſhing it 4 D' Aumont 3 being at Somerſet-heuſe, or upon the late Rebellion," DENNIS, Stage defended againſt Mr, Law, pag, wit, IMITATIONS. | VERSE 380. Oer al the ſea of beads.) Blackm. Job A waving ſed of heads was round me ſpread, And ſtil freſh frreams the gazing deluge fed, I Book II. The Du nc1av. 390 And ftretch'd on bulks, as uſual, Poets lay. 385 Norton, from Daniel and Oſtrœa ſprung, | Bleſt with his father's front, and mother's tongue, Hung ſilent down his never-bluſhing head; And all was huſh'd, as Folly's ſelf lay dead. Thus the ſoft gifts of Sleep conclude the day, = | Why ſhou'd I ſing what bards the nightly Muſe Did ſlumbring viſit, and convey to ſtews? Who prouder march'd, with magiſtrates in ſtate, To ſome fam'd round-houſe, ever open gate 395 How Laurus lay inſpir d beſide a ſink, And to mere mortals ſeem'd a Prieſt in drink ? - RENAL KEC VERSE 385. Norton.] Norton de Fee, ſaid to be the natural offs ſpring of the famous Daniel, Fortes creantur fortibus. One of the au- thors of the Flying-Poft, in which well-bred work Mr. P. had ſome- time the honour to be abus'd with his betters, and of many hired ſcur- rilities and daily papers to which he never ſet his name, in a due fear of Laws and Cudgels, He is now writing the Life of Colonel Charteris. VERSE 395. How Laurus lay inſpir'd beſide a ſink, £257 And to meer mortals, ſeem'd a Prieſt in drnk,] This line preſents us with an excellent Moral, that. we are never to paſs judgment meerly by appearances ; 2 Leſſon to all men who may happen to ſee a reve- rend perſon in the like ſituation, not to determine too raſbly, fince not only the Poets frequently deſcribe a Bard inſpir'd in this poſture, 1 (n Cam's fair bank where Chaucer lay inſpir'd, and the like) but an eminent Caſuiſt tells us, that if a Prieſt be ſeen in any indecent 3 action, we ought to account it a deception of ſight, or illufion of the Devil, who ſometimes takes upon him the ſhape of Holy men on pur- poſe to cauſe ſcandal. How little the prophane author of the Cha- * radters of the Times printed 8. 1728, regarded this admonition, ap- | pears from theſe words pag. 26. (ſpeaking of the reverend Mr. Lau. = rence Euſden) © A moſt worthy ſucceſſor of Tate in the Laureatſhip, x man of inſuperable modeſty, fince certainly it was not his Ambitt- 2 © on that led him to ſeek this illuſtrious poſt, but his affection to the 2 © Perquifite of Sack. Aà reflection as mean as it is ſcandalous! SCRIBLERUS, TMHITATTO NS. 5 VERSE 388. And all war huſb'd, as Folly's ſelf lay dead Alludes to Dryden's verſe in the Indian Emperor Al things are huſb'd, as Nature's ſelf lay dead. 724 "The Dun NCIAD. Book 1L | While others timely, to the neighbouring Fleet (Haunt of the Muſes) made their ſafe retreat. REMARKS. | 12 RR ASE 297 399, Fleet.) APriſon for infolrear Debtors on the ban Eud of the Second Book. 5 x 4 DUN G — ou the Tun . 3 YI UT in her Temple's laſt receſs inclos'd, On Dulneſs lap th Anointed head repos d- Him cloſe ſhe curtain d round with vapors blue, And ſoft beſprinkled with Cimmerian dew. F Then raptures high the ſeat of ſenſe o erflow, Which only heads, refin'd from reaſon, know. » | Hence, from the ſtraw where Bedlam's Prophet nods, He hears loud Oracles, and talks with Gods. : REMARKS. | f VERSE 5, 6, &c.) Hereby is intimated that the following: Vifion is no more than the Chimera of the Dreamer's brain, and not 2 real or intended ſatire on the Preſent Age, doubtleſs more learned, more inlighten'd, and more abound ing with great Genius's in Divi- | = wity; Politics, and whatever Arts and Sciences, than all the preced- ing. For fear of any ſuch miſtake of our Poer's honeſt meaning, he 2 hathagain at the end of this Viſion, repeated this monirion, ſayin that it all paſt thro the Ivory gate, which (according to Ancients) de- 3 noteth Falſity. Schiris 1 „ear re E VERSE 8. Hence from the firaw where Bedlam's Prophet nods, He hears loud Oracles, and talks with Gods, Virge En. At varies audit woces, fruitur que deorum (eee _ | ; * 330 4 BG — * 1 * 1 * * 5 - Mr 4 A Ie 36. get Ne goes WL: 2 6 * LON GO brt 2 Gunghts Rf 2 7 Oy * os . TO ny MA RA oo „„ we en ge oo * * 244 of #+ r = — OW 8 5 52 14 S $ =» e — „ „ — 126 The Du N ci A p. Book III. . EE UE EE Ry . — Hence the Fool's paradiſe, the Stateſman's ſcheme, 10 The air- built Caſtle, and the golden Dream, The Maids romantic wiſh, the Chymiſts flame, And Poets viſion of eternal fame. And now, on Fancy's eaſy wing convey d, The King deſcended to th' Elyzian ſhade. I5 There, in'a dusky vale where Lethe rolls, Old Bavius fits, to dip poetic ſouls, R E NM AR K 5. VERSE 16. Ol Bavius fats. Bavius was an ancient poet, cele. lebrated by Virgil for the like cauſe as Tibbald by our author, tho' in leſs chriſtian-like manner: for heatheniſhly it is declared by Virgil of Zavius, that he ought to be hated and detefted for his evil = p | Qui Bavium non odit — Whereas we have often had occaſion to ob- ſerve our Poet's great good nature and mercifulneſs, thro' the whole courſe of this Poem, = 555 | Mr. Dennis warmly contends that Bavius was no inconfiderable author; nay, that“ he and Mavius had (even in Auguſtus's days) a very formidable Party at Rome, who thought them much ſuperiour to Virgil and Horace: For (faith he) © I cannot believe they would ** have fix'd that eternal brand upon them, if they had nor been * coxcombs in more than ordinary credit, An argument which (if this Poem ſhould laft) will conduce to the honour of the Gentlemen of the Dunciad. In like manner he tells us of Mr. Settle, that © he * was once a formidable Rival to Mr. Dryden, and that in the Uni- * niverſity of cambridge, there were thoſe who gave him the pre- « ference.” Mr. Welſted goes yet farther in his behalf. * Poor Serrle « was formerly the Mighty Rival of Dryden nay, fer many years, bote * his Reputation above him. [Pref. ro his Poems 8d. p. ft.] And Mr, Milbourn cried out, How little was Dryden able, even when his * blood run high, to defend himſelf againſt Mr. Seztle/'* Notes on PDryd. Virg. p. 175. Theſe are comfortable opinions! and no wonder hors indulge them, | ſome authors indulge tne: SCRIBLERUS, IMITATTONS. VERSE ns. There in a du vale, &c.] Virg. n. 6, m——}jdet /Eneas in valle reducta | | Gecluſum nemius | Lethaumque domos placidas qui pranatat amnem, &c Hunc circum innumera gentes, &c. VERSE 18. Old Bavius ſs, to dip poetic ſoult.] Alluding to the ory of Thetis dipping Achilles ro render him impenetrable. 5 At pater Anecbiſes penitus con valle virenti | Incluſas animas, ſuperumqus ad lumen itur as, Luſtrabat — | | | | Feen hook III. The Du N cIiAD. 127 And blunt the ſenſe, and fit it for a ſcull | Ty Of ſolid proof, impenetrably dull. 1 Inſtant when dipt, away they wing their flight, 20 Where Brown and Mears unbar the gates of Light, Demand new Bodies, and in Calf's array _ Ruſh to the world, impatient for the day. Millions and millions on theſe banks he views, Thick as the ſtars of night, or morning dews, 25 As thick as bees o'er vernal bloſſoms fly, | As thick as eggs at Ward in Pillory. 1 Wond'ring he gaz'd: When lo! a Sage appears, By his broad ſhoulders known, and length of ears, Known by the band and ſuit which Settle wore, 30 (His only ſuit) for twice-three years before: N N iour | VERSE 20. Brown and Mears.] Bookſellers, Printers for 776. ould | bald, Mrs. Haywood, or any body. — The Allegory of the ſouls of the deen Dull coming forth in the form of Books, and — let abroad in (f vaſt numbers by Bookſellers, is ſufficiently intelligible. "IE; men VERSE 26. Ward in Pillory.] John Ward of Hackney, Eſq; Mem- 'te ber of Parliament, being convicted of Forgery, was firſt expelled Ini» | the Houſe, and then ſentenc'd ro the Pillory on the 19th of Feb. 1727, pre- Mr. Curl looks — the mention of ſuch a Gentleman in a Satire, as eule a great act f Baybarity, Key to the Dun. 34, Edit. p. 16. And another ote FF Author thus reaſons upon ir. Durgen, 8*. pag. 11, 12. How un- Mr. © worthy is it of Chriſtian Charity to animate the rabble to abuſe = his = © worthy man in ſuch a fituation? It was in vain! he had no Eggs ;on ©. thrown at him; his Merit preſerv'd him. What cou'd move t der- 2 Loet thus to mention a brave Sufferer, a gallant Priſoner, expos'd to 4 „ the view of all mankind! Ir was laying afide his Senſes, it was 8. „ committing a Crime for which the Law deficient not to puniſly „ him! nay a Crime which Man can ſcarce fergive, nor Time efface 7 Nothing furely could have induced him but being bribed to it * by a great Lady, (ro whom this brave, honeſt, worthy Gentle- 2 was guilty of no offence but Forgery proved in open Court, frre VERSE 20. VUnbay the gates of Light.) On. Mile6ny VERSE 25, Millions and millions — Thick as the Stars, &.] Quam multa in ſylvis autumni frigore primo Lapſa cadunt folia, aut ad terram gurgite ab alto WW uam mul. © glomerantur ages, &c - Varg- 6 4 128 The Pu xc ab. Book V. 23. III All as the veſt, appear d the wearer's frame, Old in new ftate, another yet the ſame. Bland and familiar as in life, begun _.- Thus the great Father to the greater Son. 35 Oh born to ſee what none can ſee awake! Behold the wonders ef th' Oblivious Lake. Thou, yet unborn, haſt touch'd this ſacred ſhore; The hand of Bavius drench'd thee o'er and o'er. But blind to former, as to fature Fate, 40 What mortal knows his pre-exiſtent ſtate ? | Who knows how long, thy tranſmigrating ſoul: Did from Bœotian to Bœotian roll? How many Dutchmen ſhe vouchſaf d to thrid ?: How many ſtages thro' old Monks ſhe rid? 45 And all who ſince, in mild benighted days, Mix'd the Owls ivy with the Poet's bays ? REMARKS: VERSE 28. And length of Ears.]J This is 2 ſophiſticated reading. I think I may venture to afhrm all the Copyiſts are miſtaken here: fed, have paſs'd it in filence: I have always ſtumbled at ir, and wonder'd how an error io manifeſt could eſcape ſuch accurate per- fons ? I dare aſſert it proceeded originally from the inadvercency of ſome Tranſcriber, whole head run on the Pill:ry mention'd two lines before: It is therefore amazing that Mr curl himſelf would over- look it! Vet that Schol/aſt takes not the leaſt notice hereof. Thar the learned M. ſ alſo read it thus, is plain, from his ranging this paſſage among thote in which our author was blamed for perſenal Satire on 2 Mn, Face {whereof doubtleſs he might take the Eur to be a part) So likewiſe Concanen; Ralph, the Fying-Peit; and all the Herd of Com- mentators.— Ha armenta ſequuntur. 3 A very little Sagacity (which all theſe Gentlemen therefore want- ed) will reſtore to us the true ſenſe of the Poet, thus, | By his broad: ſhoulders known, and length of years, See how caſy 2 ehange! of one fingle letter! That Mr. Se'rle was old is moſt certain, but he was (happily) a ſtranger to the Pillory, This Note partly Mr. THEOBALD, party SCRIBLERUS. „ VERSE 42. Did from Bœotian, &c.] See the Remark on Book 1. * IMITATIONS. | VERSE 46. Mir d the Owl's Ivy with the Poet's Bays} Virg,, Ec. 8. Es, — fine terporacirem — 5 nter v dre, Hedaram tibi ſerpert lauros, lege , e Rs As man's meanders to the vital ſpring 1 Roll all their tydes, then back their Circles bring 5 go Or whirligigs, twirl'd round by skilful ſwain, |. 50 Suck the thread in, then yield it out again: All nonſenſe thus, of old er modern date, Shall in thee centre, from thee circulate. For this, our Queen unfvlds:to viſion true Thy mental eye, for thou haſt much to view: 5 Old ſcenes of glory, times long caſt behind, Shall firſt recall'd, run forward: to thy mind ; Then ftretch thy fi ight o'er all her riſing reign,. And let the paſt and future fire thy brain. Aſcend this hill, whoſe cloudy point commands 60 Her Boundleſs Empire over ſeas and lands. See round the Poles where keener ſpangles ſhine; Where ſpices ſmoke beneath the burning Line, _ (Earth's wide extreams) her ſable flag 2 d. n WIR N K nnn >, e 0 r nnn q * Re . . 8 e „ * 8 And all the nations cover'd in her ſhade! „ 65 Far Eaſt ward caſt thine eye, from whence the Sun e: | And orient Science at a birth begun. 1 Gy ; One man immortal all that pride confounds, = He,, whoſe long Wall the: wand” ring Tartar bounds, 0 3: "© 8 REMARKS: | 5 9 i VERS Est, 62. See round the. Poles, Kc. Almoſt the whole ) Southern and Northern Continent wrapt in Ignorance. » | VERSE 65.) Our Author favours the e opinion that all SCIENCES | came from the Eaſtern 8 ei IMITATION S. , I VERSE $3. For this, our Queen unfold, to viſe on true ; Tue mental eye, for thoy haſt much to view.] | 5 Nas a reſemblance to chat paſſage in * on, l. 11. where the To nobler fights froms Adam! s eye remou'd The film ; then purg'd with Euphraſie and Rue | The wiſual nerve > For he had much to ſee, There is a . allafion in hat follows to that whole oe” Book III. The Dux cis D. 129 : — 3 | * 130 The Du NCIA D. Book III. . Heav'ns! what a pyle ? whole ages peviſh there: 70 And one bright blaze turns Learning into air. Thence to the South extend thy gladden'd eyes; There rival flames with equal glory riſe, 3 From ſhelves to ſhelves ſee greedy Vulcan roll, And lick up all their Phyſick of the Soul. 75 How little, mark! that portion of the ball, Where, faint at beſt, the beams of Science fall. Soon as they dawn, from Hyperborean skies, Embody d dark, what clouds of Vandals riſe ! Lo where Mceotis fleeps, and hardly flows 80 The freezing Tanais thro* a waſte of Snows, | ö The North by myriads pours her mighty ſons, [ wh Great nurſe of Goths, of Alans, and of Huns. wy See Alaric's ſtern port, the martial frame F l Of Genſeric! and Attila's dread- name! ; | Mi 85 See, the bold Oftrogoths on Latium fall; FT 0 See, the fierce Viſigoths on Spain and Gaul. { ll See, where the Morning gilds the palmy ſhore, 1 (The ſoil that arts and infant letters bore) | al His conqu ring tribes th' Arabian prophet draws, WAY 90 And ſaving Ignorance enthrones by Laws. 8 See Chriſtians, Jews, one heavy ſabbath keep; | 0:19 i s + 'S: 10 And all the Weſtern World believe and ſleep. i | Lo Rome herſelf, proud miſtreſs now no more [ 11 Of arts, but thund' ring againſt Heathen lore ; h | ! RE MAR R S. Met VERSE 69. chi Ho-am-ti, Emperor of China, the fame who built 14. the great wall between China and Tartary, deftroyed all the books and | - i learned men of that empire. | | | 5 ; i VERSE 73, 74.) The Caliph, Omar I. having conquer'd /£g7)! [hi | caus'd his General to burn the Ptolomaan library, on the gares of | | which was this inſcription, Medicina Anima, The Phyfick of the Soul. i VERSE 88. The Soil that arts and infant letters bore,} Phanicit, (* why Syria, &c. where Letters are laid to have been invented. In theſe] Countries Mahomet began his Conqueſts. DS 1 | VERSE g4. Hun ring againf Heathen lore.] A ſtrong inſtance of wi is pious rage is plac'd to Pope Gregory's account, John of 2 "t | | ; : #.. 1 rr _ III. Book III. The DUN IAD. 131 9) Her gray-hair d Synods damning books unread, N . | And Bacon trembling for his brazen head: * | Padua with ſighs beholds her Livy burn; * And ev'n th* Antipodes Vigilius mourn. | See, the Cirque falls! th' unpillar'd Temple nods ! loo Streets pav'd with Heroes, Tyber choak'd with Gods? Till Peter's Keys ſome chriſten'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moſes lends his Pagan hom; See graceleſs Venus to a Virgin turn'd, . Or Phidias broken, and Apelles burn d. 105 Behold yan' Ifle, by Palmers, Pilgrims trod, Men bearded, bald, cowl'd, uncowl'd, ſhod, unſhod, Peel'd, patch'd, and pyebald, linſey-woolſey brothers, Grave mummers | ſleeveleſs ſome, and ſhirtleſs others. 1 M gives 2 very odd Encomium to this Pope, at the ſame time that he mentions one of the ſtrangeſt effects of this exceſs of zeal in him. Doctor RI ille Gregorius, qui melleo predicationis imbre telam ri- gavit & inebriavit eccleſiam, non modo Matheſin juſſit ab aula; ſed, us iraditur a majoribus, incendio dedit probate lectionis ſcripta, Palatinus quæcunque tenebat Apollo. And in another place: Fertur beatus Grego= rius bibliothecam combuſſiſſe gentilem; quo divins pagina graticr eſſet ts. cus, & major authoritas, & 1 * ſtudiofior, Defiderius Archbiſhop of Vienna was ſharply reproved by him for teaching Grammar and Li- terature, and explaining the Poets; Becauſe (ſays this Pope) in une ſe ore cum Jovis laudibas, Chriſti laudes non capiunt ; Et quam grave ne- fandumque ſit, Epiſcopis canere quod nec Laico rveligioſo conveniat, ipfa conſidera, He 18 ſaid, among the reſt, to have E Livy, Quia in ſu- perſtitionibus & ſacris Romanorum perpetuo verſatur. The {ame Pope is accuſed by Veſſius and others of having caus d the noble monuments of the old Roman magnificence to be deſtroyed, leſt thoſe who came to Rome ſhou'd give more attention to Triumphal Arches, Ec. than to 7 oy Things. BAYLE, Di@. | | 8 | > VERSE 101. 'Till Peter's Keys ſome chriften'd Jove adorn, &c. ] Af. ter the Government of Rome devolved to the Popes, their zeal was for ſome time exerted in demoliſhing the Heathen Temples and Starues, ſeo that the Goths ſcarce deſtroyed more Monuments of Antiquity our ok Rage, than theſe out of Devotion. Ar length they ſpar'd ſome of the Temples by converting them to Churches, and ſome of the Sta- tiues, by modifying them into images of Saints. In much later times, it was thought neceſſary to change the Statues of Apollo and Pallas on the Tomb of Sannazarins, into David and Judith; the Lyre eaſũy became a Harp, and the Gorgon's Head turn d to that of Helofernes, — m_— — 3 ——— eg — — 7 mo e —ꝓEʒ—é ——— — — ere N e — e e e eee N W + wow IEC RECESSES oP - vas; Au 3 Dre 37 N yy n 5 ot ADS e r LS TY 8! nnn . we, _ * wi oo Pie es AE Che "4 5 ads. — + —— — — + a+ eo? ——— — — — rg ng F- 132 The Dunctavp. Book INE, That once was Britain — Happy! had ſhe ſeen Flo No fiercer ſons, had Eaſter never been. In peace, great Goddeſs! ever be ador d; How keen the war, if Dulneſs draw the ſword ? Thus viſit not thy own! on this bleſt age Oh ſpread thy Influence, but reftrain thy Rage © 115 And ſee! my ſon, the hour is on its way, That lifts our Goddeſs to imperial ſway : This fav'rite Ifle, long ſever'd from her reign, | Dove-like, ſhe gathers to her wings again. Now look thro' Fate! behold the ſcene ſhe draws 1z0 What aids, what armies, to aſſert her cauſe 2. See all her progeny, illuſtrious ſight! Behold, and count them, as they riſe to light. As Berecynthia, while her offspring vye In homage, to the mother of the sky. I25. Surveys around her in the bleſt abode A hundred ſons, and ev ry ſon a God: Not with leſs glory mighty Dulneſs crown'd, Shall take thro. Grubſtreet her triumphant round, R E M A R K 5. VERSE 170. Happy — had' Eaſter never been] Wars in Eg | And anciently, about the right time of celebrating Eaſter. IMITATIONS _ VERS E 110. Happy— had Eaſter never been. ] Virg. Ecl. 6. Er fortunatam, ſi nunquam armenta fuiſſent. E 8 1 VERSE 119, rz. New lock thro” Fate — See all her Prege- wy —— &c.] Virg. Kn. 6. 1 | Nunc age, Dardaniam prolem que deinde ſequatur Gloria, qui maneant Itala de gente nepotes, | Wluftres animas, neſtrumque in nomen ituras, | Expediam _—m—_— ä | - VERSE 123. As Berecynthia, & c.] Virg. ib. Felix prole virum, quali, Berecynthia ma'er In vebitur curra Phrygias turrita per urbes, Le'a deum partu, centum complexa nepores, Gmnes celicelas, omnes ſupera alta tenen es. £ 4 q 4 bn 5 2% 5 F J. Book III. The DUN cIAD. 133 1 And Her Parnaſſus glancing er at once, | 130 Behold a hundred ſons, and each a dunce. Mark firſt the youth who takes the foremoſt place, And thrufts his perſon full into your face. With all thy Father's virtues bleſt, be born! And a new Cibber ſhall the Stage adorn. | 135 A ſecond ſee, by meeker manners known, And modeſt as the maid that ſips alone From the ftrong fate of drams if thou get free, Another Durfey, Ward.! ſhall ſing in thee. KF Theeſhall each Alehouſe, thee each Gill-houſe mourny s 140 And anſw'ring Gin-ſhops ſowrer ſighs return! Illo next two flip-ſhod Muſes traipſe along, In lofty madneſs, meditating ſong, le - : With treſſes ſtaring from poetic dreams, ; And never waſh d, but in Caſtalia's ſtreams: 5 245 Haywood, Centlivre, Glories of their race! : Lo Horneck's fierce, and Roome's funereal face; [ . E 7 REMARKS. > "VERSE r38, Ward.] Vid. Book 1. Ver. 200. VERS E 143. Haywood, Centlivre.} See book 2. | | VERSE 146. Lo Horneck's fierce and Roome's funereal face.) This ſtood in one edition And Ms ruful face. But the [+ ue who ſup. pos d himſelf meant applying to our author in a modeft manner, and Vith declarations of his innocence, he removed the occafion of his Inge nneaſineſs. . | IMITATIONS., | © VIERSE r3r, Mark fr# the youth, & e.] Virg. En. 6. 4 Ile vides, pura juvents qui nititur haſta. . 25 VERSE 133. With all thy Father's virtues bleſt, be born'] A mags ner ot expreſſion uſed by Virgil, 5 | | Naſcere ! praque diem veniens; age Lucifer As alſo that of Patriis virtutibus, Ecl. 4. VERSE. 137, From the ſtrong fate of dran if ilos ges free, &. Virg. n. 6, e | ſi yu Fata aſpera yumpas, Ju Marcellus eri. | | . VERSE 139. For theo nach Ale-bonſe, &c.} Virgil againg Bol, fre etiam lauri, um fit vers myrica, Re. | We - 2 4 ” . . Sp - who we + be - - — 6 4 2 1 1 hs 3 "Þ 3 — 1 E : es » — "wy — 2 . m 1 L *n 2 > 7 RIPE : #4 — Te l the + . pe 6 ww „ 2 mme Soon — — — 4 IRIS, * 2 wes - — wo n * — * 1222 = * 5 "ot _—_— Pd IS x 2 VION ; 1 * + +5 WO * Fon _ x — * N — — ren bs - LY - * * ne F pa + + N degy bi — — a K ER. l eee 8 — 4 $ a 1 of — 2 — E rons's ecreianh, priecg 10 n pa * 2 rr NM a . * - K bo , | 2 ns — 2 . - . — 47 « 4 * — = y - 0920s —— —— 4 — * 8 — Dee 8 2 8 A Pepys 5 : - nere # + 4 we 1 00" 40, 447 15 anole 6s 5 r 5 1 Pages — —. . » g * e v - Yr — - wi "$11 4. 441 ö 44 t 4 hi 5 -_ rag 7 7 — — 92 a — —— . — * * * — P 4. A - 8 8 (ies — Rr Pe | . — — ror «AAA >. N 2 — 2p oe — 5 gar 134 TheDuxcrav. Book Ill. Lo ſneering G * * de, half malice and A Fiend in glee, ridiculouſly grim. half whim, Jacob, the Scourge of Grammar, mark with awe, t 50 Nor leſs revere him, Blunderbuſs of Law. | Lo Bond and Foxton, ev'ry nameleſs name, All crowd, who foremoſt ſhall be damn'd to Fame? Some ſtrain in rhyme ; the Muſes, on their racks, Scream, like the winding of ten thouſand Jacks: 155 Some free from rhyme or reaſon, rule or check, Break Priſcian's head, and Pegaſus's neck; | Down, down they larum, with impetuous whirl, The Pindars, and the Miltons, of a Curl. Ho Silence, ye Wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls 160 And makes Night hideous—Anſwer him ye Owls ! * Senſe, ſpeech, and meaſure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way—and Durgen may be read. REMARKS. VERSE 146. Horneck and Roome. ] Theſe two are worthily coupl- | ed, being both virulent Party-writers ; and one wou', _ rically, fince immediately after the publiſhin of this d think prophe. Piece the for. latter ſucceeded him in Honour and Employment, mer dying, the no: The 6 3 Philip Horneck, Author of a Billingſgate paper call'd The High German Docter, in the 2d Vol. of which No. 1 the — ard he had for Mr. P. — Edward Roome, Son o 4. — may ſee taker for Funerals in Heer. ſtreet, writ ſome of the papers call'd Paſ. uin, and Mr. Ducket others, where by malicious Innuendos, it wag of malevolent practices with a endeavour'd to repreſent him guilt great man then under proſecution of Parliament. VERSE 147. G** de.] An ill-natur'd Crit ick who v our Author, yet unprinted, call'd The mock Aſop. rit a Satire on VERSE 149. Jacob, the Scourge of Grammar, mark with awe,)] This Gentleman is Son of a conſiderab tween his more laborious Studies He 1s 2 great admirer of Poets and him to try his genius their works, which weyancer, Modern Juſtice, &c. GILES JACOB of of Poets, Vol, 1. „ X « TIMITATIONS.. VERSE 150.] Virg. Kn. 6. ; | Au fulmina belli 1 | Scipiadas, cladem Lybig! —— Malſter of Romſey in Southampton- ſbire, and bred to the Law under a very eminent Attorney: who, be- 15 has 4:verted himſelf wi th Poetry. d has occaſion that way — He has writ in proſe the Lives of the Poets,” Eſſays, and a great many Law-Books, The Accompliſh'd Con. himſelf, Lives \ . an Under- f N 1 — 5 2 21 7 II. Book III. The Dux ci AD. 135 im, Flow Welſted, flow | like thine inſpirer, Beer, BF Tho! ſtale, not ripe; tho' thin, yet never clear; ve, 165 So ſweetly mawkiſh, and ſo ſmoothly dull; | Heady, not ſtrong, and foaming tho not full. Ah Dennis! Gildon ah! what ill-ſtar'd rage me? Hivides a friendſhip, long confirm'd by age? 5 Blockheads with reaſon wicked wits abhor, 1 170 But fool with fool is barb rous civil war. 5 Embrace, embrace my Sons! be foes no more! Nor glad vile Poets with true Criticks gore. Behold yon Pair, in ſtrict embraces join'd ; How like their manners, and how like their mind? ws 8 Hes x | N ad | 3 : VERSE 181. Bond and Foxton.] Two inoffenſive offenders againft+ dur poet; 1 unknown, but by being mention'd by Mr. curl. EF VERSE 155. Ralph. ] A name inſerted after the firſt Editions, not known to our Author, till he writ a Swearing - piece calld Sawney, Frxery abuſive of Dr. Swift, Mr. Gay, and himſelf. Theſe lines allude to à thing of his, intituled Night a Poem, Shakeſpear, Hamlet. upl. —— Viſit thus the glimpſes of the Moon, dhe. Mating Night hide u- | | 9 for-. This low writer conſtantly attended his own works with Pane ent, | grits in the Journals, and once in particular prais'd himſelf highly I'd © above Mr. Addiſen, in wretched remarks upon that Author's Account ſee 1 of Engliſh Poets, printed in a London Journal, Sept. 1728. He was ler- . wholly illiterate, and knew no Language not even French Being ad- aſ. F viſed to read the Rules of Dramarick Poetry before he began a Play, vas ble ſmiled and reply'd, Shakeſpear writ without Rules. | 5 ha © VERSE 162. Durgen. ] A ridiculous thing of Hard ss. | (wu — | 5 | s 163, Flow, Welſted, flow ! &c.] Parody on Denham, Coper'g be- i "Us | ; | | 2 ry, | D could 1 flow like thee, and make thy flream d ) great example, as it is my theme, : of is Tho deep, yet clear; tho" gentle, yet not dull, mw | Strong, without rage; wil bout ogerftowing, full | 88 6 3 169. Embrace, embrace my Sons be foes no more,] Vire e tanta animis aſſueſcite bella, Neu patria validas in viſcera vertite viret: | T1, privy, tu part ſanguii n 40 1 1 Is al 296 The Du N cf Ab. Book III. 175 Fam'd for good- nature, B * * and for truth; D* * for pious paſſion to the youth. Equal in wit, and equally polite, Shall this a Paſquin, that a Grumbler write; R E MARK S. VERSE ig. Fam'd for good nature B* *, Hr. D*, For pious paſſion to the youth] The firſt of theſe was Son of the late Biſhop of S. Author of x weekly paper called The Grumbler, as the other was concern d in ano. ther call'd Paſquin, in which Mr, Pope was abuſed (particularly with the late Duke of Buckingham and Biſhop of Rocheſter.] They allo join'd in a piece againſt his firſt undertaking to tranſlate the Iliad, intituled Homer ides, by Sir fl:ad Dogrel, printed by W. lkins 1715, And Mr. D. writ an Epilogue for Powel's Pupper-ſhow, reflecting on the ſame work. Mr, Curl gives us this further account of Mr. B. He did him. * ſelf write à Letter to the E. of Halifax, informing his Lordſbip (as he F * rells him) of what he knew much better before: And he os in his ** ewn name ſeveral political r A certain information of a * certain diſcourſe, A ſecon * ftrongly affirmed were written by Colonel Dacker.” CURL, Key, 2 9. But the author of the Characters of the Times tells us, rheſe po- —— pieces were nat approv'd of by his on Father, the Reverend iſhop. | Of the other works of theſe 'Gentlemen, the world has heard 0 more, than it wou'd of Mr, Pope's, had their unit laudible endes. vours diſcourag'd him from his undertakings. How few good works had ever appear'd (fince men of true merit are always the leaſt pre- ſuming) had there been always ſuch champions-ro ſtifle them in their conception? And were it not better for the publick, that a million of monſters came into the world, than that the Serpents ſhould have ſtrangled one Hercules in his cradle? © VERSE 176. — for pioss paſſion to the youth,) The verſ{ is: Iiteral rranſlation of Virgil, Naſus amore pio pueri and here, as in the 3 apply'd to Friendſhip : That between Niſus and Euryal- is allow d to make one of the moſt amiable Epiſodes in the world, and ſurely was never interpreted in a perverſe ſenſe: But it will aſtoniſh the Reader to hear, that on no other occaſion than this line, 2 Dedication was written to this Gentleman ro induce him to think Tomething farther. ©** Sir, you are known to have all that affect ion for the beautiful part of the creation which God and Nature:defign'd,— Sir, you have a very fine Lady — and, Sir, you have eight very * fine Children, — Cc. . [Dedic. to Dennis Rem. en the Rape of the Leck! The Truth is, che poor Dedicator's brain was turn'd upon this article; he had taken into his head that ever fince ſome Books were ritten againſt the Stage, and ſince the Halian Opera had prevail'd, the nation was infected with a vice not fit to be nam'd. He went ſo far as to print upon this ſubje&, and concludes his argument with #his remark, © that be cannot help thinking the Oblecnuy of Plays I {able in is ſpread * & ſo wide, it may be of uſe to the reducing mens ninds to * 2 excuſable at this juncturg, ſince, when that execrable — -” £5 a wy ex by, des & Tale of a Tub, Cc. Al which jr ig ] Il * who ſo greatly — — in the ſame: \1 Miibjey and great delight. wy 1 | ! f Nuſe of this word, 2 "VR 1144 2 1 Book III. The Du Nc1&9: IP Like are their merits, like rewards they ſhare, 180 That ſhines a Conſul, this Commiſſioner. „ But who is lie, in cloſet cloſe y- pent, Of ſober face, with learned: duſt beſꝑrent ? REMARK S. | & tural defire of women.” DENNIS, Stage defended againſt Mr. Lam p. 20. Our author has ſolemnly declared ro me, he never heard an creature but the Dedicator mention that Vice and this Gentleman | rogerbar: ; e Fr RSE 184. Wormius hig ht.] Let not this name, purely fictiti- ous, be conceited: to mean the learned Olaus Wormius ; much leſs (as it was unwarrantably foiſted into the ſurreptitious editions) our own» Antiquary Mr. Thoma Herne, who had» no way aggrieven ous Poets but on the contrary publiſhed many curious tracks which he Rath to- Moſt rightly are antient words here employed an ſpea king of fuck* e may fay not only rightly, - but wiſely, yea excellently, inaſmuch as for the like practicę the like praiſe is given te- Hopkins and Sternhold by Mr. Herne imſelf, CGI | ro Rob, of Gloceſter] Artis. BEHETT ; others ſay BEHIGHT, promiſs- ed, and ſo it is uſed exeellently well by Tho, Norton in his tranſlat ion into metre of the 116th Pſalm, verſe 14. | | : Ito the Lerd will pay my vo w, ; That I to him B EHIGHT. 3 Where the modern innovators, not underſtanding che propriety of * © the Word (which is Truly Engin, from-the-Saxett) have moſt an 58; e __ bis great contentment peruſed. : © rawably alter'd it thus, d Ito the Lord will pay my vows, VERSE ibid —=HIGHT.) ** In Cumberland they ſay be, for” to promiſe or vow ; but HLG HT uſually fignifies was call4: and ſo Jit does in the North even to this day, notwithſtanding what 28- t ,. ddhein-Cumberland, . | 0 | 5 } HERNE, bd. ” VERSE 183. ARE DE.] Read or piruft; tho? fometimes uſed for = gounſl, © REA DE THY READ, take thy counſailes Thomas Sternhold in his * * tranſlation of the firſt Plalm into Engl.ſh metre, hath wiſely mags The man is bleſt that hath not behr To wicked -& RAD his ear. | * But in the laſt ſpurions editions of the Singing plalms the word becauſe not READ is changed into men. I ſay ſpurious editions, only here, bur quite through out the whole book of Pſalms; are 1 J ſtrange alterations, all for the worſe! And yer the title- page ſtands 1 28 it us'd to do! and all (which is abominable in any book, much | » as A K i FD more. in. a ſacred work) is aſcribed ro Thomas Sternhold, John Hoplgny,. and others) L am confident, were Sternhold and Hopkins now living; they would proceed again. the innovators as Cheats == A henry £ 448 : 8 1 .. 2 —_ 138 The DunciAp. Book III. Right well mine eyes arede the myſter wight, On parchment ſcraps y-fed, and Wormius hight. 185 To future ages may thy dulneſs laſꝶ, As thou preſerv'ſt the dulneſs of the paſt ! There, dim in clouds, the poreing Scholiaſts mark, Wits, who like Owls ſee only in the dark, A Lumberhouſe of Books in ev'ry head, 390 For ever reading, never to be read. But, where each Science lifts its modern Type, Hiſt ry her Pot, Divinity his Pipe, „ | While proud Philoſophy repines to ſhow Diſhoneſt ſight ! his breeches rent below; IMITATIONS. 2 which, to - more of their intolerable alterations, ought by 6 no means to be permitted or approved of, by ſuch as are for Uni. fermity, and have any regard for the old Enpliſh Saxon tongue. ' HzzxE, Gloſſ. on Rob. of Gloc. Art. rede. 804% 5 2 I do herein agree with Mr. H. Little is it of avail to object that ſuch words are become unintelligible. Since they are Truly Eng] all 1h, Men bt to underſtand them; and ſuch as are for Vnifor mity 2 ink alterations in a language, ſtrange, abominable, and #nwarrantable, — therefore, I fay again, hath our Poet uſed ancient words and poured them * as 2 precious ointment, upon good old Vrmiss in this place. | . | VERSE ibid. Myfer wight.] Uncouth mortal. VERSE 188. Wits, who like Owls, &c.] Theſe few lines exactly Aeſcribe the right verbal Critick: He is to his Author as a Quack to Kis Patients, the more they ſuffer and complain, the better he is plea{- ed ; like the famous Doctor of that ſort, who put up in his bills, He delighted in matters of difficulty. Some: body ſaid well of theſe men, chat their heads were Libraries out of order, | | IMITATIONS VERSE 145. Behold yon air, in ſtrict embraces Join d.] virg. Kn. l Ala autem paribus quas fulgere cernis in armis, Cioncordes anima „ - ĩÜè˙“0⁵«ÜI—.ꝝIy⁊A REY Euryalus, forma _—_— viridique juvent a, Niſus amore pio puert. VERSE 181. But ubo it he, &c. ] Virg. n. 6. qu ions and am | Pers in this manner, of Numa, = Qui procul ille autem ramis inſignis oliva acra ferens : — noſes erines, incanaq; menia, &c. SCRIBLERUS, | | KK S a ® 4 mm. 4 SR Ck i 8 La 933 ea I. it by Uni - ue. that Men think table, ords old vs. tactly ck to pleaſ- 8, Ha men, En. 6. was impatient under the > ſults or ſatyrs; but ſtill proceeded, matured his Book III. The Dune1aD. 1390 195 Imbrown'd with native Bronze, Io Henley ſtands, Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. | How fluent nonſenſe trickles from his —_ 1 How ſweet the periods, neither ſaid nor ſung! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy ſtrain, 200 While K , B**, W, preach in vain, Oh great Reſtorer of the good old Stage, Preacher at once, and Zany of thy Age! Oh worthy thou of Zgypt's wiſe abodes, A decent Prieſt, where monkeys were the Gods! 205 But Fate with Butchers plac'd thy prieſtly Stall, Meck modern faith to murder, hack, and mawl; VERSE 105. — Lo! Henley flands, &c.] J. Henley, the Orator ; he preach'd on the Sundays Theo _ matters, and on he Wedneſ- days upon all other ſciences. Each Auditor paid one ſhilling. He declaim'd ſome years unpuniſh'd againſt the rue perſons, and oc» cafionally did our author that honour. ELS TE», in Oratory Tranſactions, No. 1. publiſh'd by Henley himſelf, gives the follow- ing account of him. He was born at Mellon Mowbry in Leiceſter. * fbire. From his own pariſh ſchool he went to St. John's Col- lege in Cambridge. He began there to be uneaſy ; for it ſhock's *.him to find he was commanded to believe againſt his judgment- in points of Religion, Philoſophy, ec. for his genius leading * him freely. to . all 22 and call all points to account, he e fetters of the free· born mind. — Being admitted to Prieſts orders, he found the examination very ſhore and ſuperficial, and that it was not neceſſary to conform 10 the Chriſti= an Religion, in order either ro Deaconſbip or Prieſthood,” He came to Town, and after having for ſome years been a writer for Book - fellers, he had an ambition to be ſo for Miniſters of State. The only reaſon he did not rife in the Church we are told? was the envy of o» Athers, and a difreliſh entertain'd of him, becauſe he was not qualify d to be a compleat Spanial, ” However he offer'd the ſervice of fs peng in one morning, to two Great men of opinions and intereſts direct! oppoſite; by both of whom being rejected, he ſer up a new project, and ited himſelf the Reftorer of ancient Eloquence, He thought © it ag * lawful to take a licence from the King and Parliament ar one place, as another; at Hicks Hall, as at Doctors Commons ? , fo ſer up his Oratory in Newpert-Market, Burcher-Row. There (fays his friend) ** he had the affiyance ro form a Plan which no mortal ever thought Z of; he had ſucceſs againſt all oppofition; challenged his adverſa» Aries to fair diſputations, and nene would diſpute witb him, writ, ar read and ſtudied twelve hours a day; compos'd three diſſertat ions a week on all fubjects ; underrook to teach in one year what Schools © and Univerſities teach in five; was not terrify'd 4 in- bold ſe , and w. PUR „ 140 The Duc IAD. Book III. *& - Ty ' 77 1 1 7 1 2 * 7. 1 4.4] 2 37K 2 we. . - 27 * ” 12 4 1 3 1 2 0 . ES 7 'J * * * * 3 £ FE T - * +] * FE $4 N n 4 $5 - n 8 * J OS fave rn — — ite TL . eee — * — m By « . 3 C0. . ea dE NT AP PETE . r eee ee eee. , a 5 4 aeg mY War 31 as . e de A 2 * 1 9 rr, — * 4 * d 1 1 d ie 40 4 "fc A . "WF... — — 7 —— * 3 0 4%, E . . i * e "368725 — — . 18 N — rr * * ww \ " $600. 4 „ene _— R e —— ͤwͤ „ „ ˙ *˙* wet . 9 ——.— ONT CN ER DOPIIPIE ” #* * 0 ads — F ... 23 2 rr — 4 — * ee „ . $2 Fo I _—_ — 9 . ————— — — — ” —— — f — j „ 2 5 — 0 . e „ S r OP pp 0 * os Aha. $ ** at ny . bach —— — — ” „ es gripes Bo „ — r — ——— — oy . — — And bade thee live, to crown Britannia's praiſe, In Toland's, Tindal's, and in Woolſton's days. Thou too, great Woolfton! here exalt thy. throne, 210 And prove, no Miracles can match thy own. Vet oh my ſons! a father 's words attend- (So may the fates preſerve the ears you lend) Tis yours, a Bacon, or a Locke to blame, A Newton's Genius, or a Seraph's flame: 215 But O! with one, immortal One diſpenſe, The ſource of Newton's Light, of Bacon's Seng! Content, each Emanation of his fires | That beams on earth, each Virtue he inſpires. Each Art he prompts, each Charm he can create, 220 What-e er he gives, are giv'n for You to hate. Perſiſt, by all divine in Man un-aw'd, But learn, ye Dunces !. not ta ſcorn yaur. Gon. Thus he, for then. a ray of: Reafon ftvle: Half thro' the ſolid darkneſs. of his. ſoul; REMARKS. put. the Church and all That, in danger.” WEL SE , Narrative, in- Orat. Tranſact. No. 1. : iP | After having ſtood ſome Proſecutions, he turned his Rhetorick to- nry upon all publick and private occurrences. All this pafled in the ſame room; where ſomerimes he broke Jeſts, and. ſometimes that Bread which he call'd the Primizive Excharix, — This wonderful - perſon ſtruk Medals, which he diſperſed as Tickets to his ſubſcribers: The device, a Star rifing to the Meridian, with this Motto, As. SuUuMMA ; and below, INVEN AM VIAM AUT FACIAM, - | VERS E 208. Of Tolandiand T;ndal. fee book 2. Tho. Woolſton, an ampious madman, who wiote in a moſt inſolent ſtyle againſt the Mi- racles of the Goſpel ; in the ycar 1736-27, Go. — VERS E 222, But learn, yr Dunces! not 10 ſcorn your God.] Virg. _ » puts this precept into the mouth of a wicked man, as here of Bene ei ment ti, & non temneye dives / | 0 VERSE 229. 4 ſabte Sorc rer.] Dr. Fauſtus, the ſubject of a ſer. of Farces which laſted in vogue two or three feaſons, in which both. Play-houſes ſtrove ro outdo each other in the year 1726, 27. All the + eXtravagancies in the fixteen Jines following were introduced on the: Stage, and frequented by perſons of the fuſt quality in England ro ths r * 4 wwenmaigth and thirtieth time, — ne, Book III. The Du ne1 aD. FLY 225 But ſoon the Cloud return d and thus the Sire: See now, what Dulneſs and her ſons admire; See.! what the charms, that ſmits the. ſimple. heart Not. touch'd by Nature, and not reach'd by Art. He look'd, and ſaw a ſable Sorc'rer riſe, 250 | Swift to whoſe hand a winged volume flies: All ſudden, Gorgons hiſs, and Dragons glare,. And ten-horn'd fiends and Giants ruſh to war. Hell riſes, Heav'n.deſcends, and dance on Earth, | Gods, i imps, and monſters, a rage, and wirth, 235 A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball, Till one wide Conflagration frallows all. Thence a new world, to Nature's laws unknown Breaks out refulgent, with.a.heay'n its own : Another Cynthia her new journey runs, 240 And other. planets circle other ſuns :. The foreſts dance, the rivers: upward riſe, . Whales ſport in woods, and dolphins in the skies, And laft, to give the whole creation grace; Lo! one vaſt Egg produces human race. | Joy fills his ſoul, joy innocent of thought: What pow: r, he cries, what pow'r theſe wonders Cards 2 245 R ENR KS. VERSE 233. Hel riſes, Heav'n deſcends, and dance on 1 This 1 abſurdity was actually repreſented i in Tibbald's Rape of Pf. e pine VER SE 244. Le! one wait Egg] In _— of theſe Farces Hariss Pin is hatchd upon the Stage, our of a large Egg. "7 IMITATION VERS E 240. And other planets,} Virg. Kn. 6: — — ſelemque ſuum, ſua ſyde-a norunt. 5 \ VERSE 242. Whales ſport in woods, and dolphins © in the res, } How. De'phinum ui. appi "88, findiibus aprum. | 23 ** N Le Re "ou a - * Ps * þ OOO ſe Arti ay n. ; L — . 5v 4 6x I 3 — . - » ae þ WoL "26.48 5 270 * en wy 1 — 99 N ha 8 . g 6 . Moran, "2 6h; . ASSL Wat 2 Sod. n 2 e a a * 4 4 ARES FU . e bs YO p 4 2 1 . — — —— — — p —— —— Gags AIR ane, — e — 2 q » . a rr umme 2 * N 2 iy PPP — —ä— — 2 1 8 * . PS AIAN, VAL Pt 6th eg — nenn * eee nee * * —— at 2 4 W n We. by 4 py 5 e © uf The Duxcrav. Book III. Son! what thou ſeek'ſt is in thee. Look, and find Fach monſter meets his likeneſs in thy mind. Vet would'ſt thou more? In yonder cloud, behold! 250 Whoſe ſarcenet skirts are edg'd with amy gold, A matchleſs youth : His nod theſe worlds controuls, Wings the red lightning, and the thunder rolls. Angel of Dulneſs, ſent to ſcatter round Her magic charms o'er all unclaſſic ground: 255 You ſtars, yon ſuns, he rears at pleaſure higher, Illumes their light, and ſets their flames on fire. Immortal Rich] how calm he fits at eaſe Mid ſnows of paper, and fierce hail of peaſe ; ; And proud his miſtreſs orders to perform, 260 Rides in the whirlwind, and dire&s the ſtorm. But lo! to dark encounter in mid air Ko New wizards riſe : here Booth, and Ci der there: Booth in his cloudy tabernacle ſhrin'd, On grinning dragons Cibber mounts the wind : R EN AR K s. SE 257. 8 Rich. ] Mr. fon Rich, Maſter of the The: | VERSE 297, Immortal was the firſt that excell'd this way. q | VERSE 262. Booth and - mw two of the managers of the The · atre in Pra- Lane. FAITATI 0 N S. 'vER SE 247. Son! what thou ſeek't i is in thee, ] Quod petis in te et | | Ne. te quaſtveris extra. Perf. VERSE 252. Wings the red lightning, &c. ] Like Salwonens in Es. 6. Dum flammas Jovis, &. ſonitus i mitatur olympi, Nimbos, & non imitabile fulmen, | re & cornipedum curſu ſimularat aquorum. | VERSE 254. oer all unclaſſic ground, alludes t 90 Mr, Addi eis verſe in the praiſes of nah, Poetic fields incompaſs me around, 4154 f U Iſeem — on Claſſic ground, 2s verſe 260 is 2 Parody on a noble one of the ſame Author ! in the mſg : and verſe 255, 256, on two ſublime verſes of Dr. I. 5 Bo * lere- Book III. The Du xci av. | 143 265 Dire is the conflict, diſmal is the din, Here ſhouts all Drury, there all Lincoln's-Inn; Contending Theatres our empire raiſe, Alike their labours, and alike their praiſe. - And are theſe wonders, Son, to thee unknown ? 270 Unknown to thee ? Theſe wonders are thy own. For works like theſe let deathleſs Journals tell, None but Thy ſelf can be thy parallel. REMARKS. VERSE 272. None but thy ſelf can ze thy allel] A marvetlous ine of Theobald; unleſs the Play call'd the Dowble Falſbrod be, (as he would have it believed) Shakeſpear's : But whether this line be his or nor, he proves Shakeſpear to have written as bad, (which merhinks in an au- been concealed) as for example, Try what Bepentance can: What can it not? But what can it, when one cannot repent ? por Cogitation PO Reſides not in the Man who does not think, &e. | | Misr's Joon. thor for whom he has a Venerarion almoſt r7ſeng to idolatry, might have 1 is ranted they are aſſ of à piece, and no man doubts but herein he is able to imitate Shakeſpear, Fe | | V. id.] The former Annotator ſeeming to be of opinion that the Double Falſhood is not Shakeſpear's , it is but juſtice ro give Mr. Thes-- bald's Arguments to the contrary : Firſt that the MS. was above fixty yours old; fecondly, that once Mr, Betterton had it, or he bath heard o; thirdly, that ſome body told him the author gave it to a baſtard daughter of his: But fourthly and above all, that he has a great mind every thing that is good in our tongue ſhould be Shake. 9 * ſpear's.” I allow rhefe reaſons to be truly critical; but what I am infinitely coneern'd at is, that fo many Errors have eſcaped the learn- ed Editor: a few whereof we ſhall here amend, out of a much greater aumber, as an inſtance of our regard to this dear Relift, Acr 1. SCERE . I have his letters of a modern date, | Wherein by Julio, good Camille's fon (Who as he ſays, L I hall follow hard upon; And whom I with the growing hour [] expect) He doth ſollicit the return of gold, To purchaſe certain horſe that like him well. = This place is corupted : the epithet good is a meer infignificant S plerive, bur the alteration of that fingle word reſtores a clear light tg the whole context, thus, © J have his letters of a modern date, . Wherein, by July, (by Camille's fon, _ Who, as he ſaith, ſhall follow hard upon; And whom I with the growing hours expect) e doth ſollicit the return of gold. 1 1 3: 7-2 | © q 144 The DunciaD. Book IIR Ihheſe, Fate reſerv'd to grace thy reign divine, | Foreſeen by me, but ah! with-held from mine. 275 In Lud's old walls, tho' long I rul'd renown'd,, Far, as loud Bow's ſtupendous bells reſound; Tho' my own Aldermen conferr'd my bays, To. me committing their eternal praiſe, — — . LIE Pe ug arg — R E MAR RS. | Here you have not only the Perſun ſpecify'd, by whoſe hand the re. turn was to be made, but the moſt neceflary part, the Dme, by which It was required. Camillo's fon was to follow hard upon — What? Wh upon July, —— Horſe that liæ him well, 18 Very. abſurd: Read At. without contradiction, 7 1 | — Horſe, that be Lit well, | % 1- tar end. — l | muſt ſtoop to gain her, Throw all my gay Compariſons aſide, RS | | And turn my proud additions out of ſervice : faith. Henriquex of 2 maiden of low condition, objecting his high quality.: What have his Compariſons here to do? Correct it boldiy, ME Throw all my gay Compariſons afide, And curn my proud additions our of ſervice, belies = i Acrt,:2. Scenes I. | All the verſe of this Scene is confounded with profe;- — O that a man [OE ; | Could reaſon down this Fever of the blood, Or'ſoorh with words the tumult in his heart! Then Julio, I might be indte& thy friend. Read — this ferver of the blood, 12 | | Then Julio I might be in deed thy friend. Marking che juſt oppofi- tien of deeds and words | | 4s Tn | Acr 4. SCENE I. = 5 How his eyes ſhake fire! —faid by Volante, obſerving how the luſt ful mepherd looks at her.” It muſt be, as the ſenſe plainly demands, How his eyes ae fire! : | | And meaſure every piece of youth about me! Tbid, That, tho' 1 pore diſguiſes for ſome ends. She had but one diiguife, and wore it But for one end. Reſtore it, with the alteration but of two letters. That, tho'I ere d gu ſed for ſome end. | ACT 4, SCENE 2. o oaths no more give credits Io tears, to vows; falſe both / — | Balfſe Grammar I'm ſure, Beth can relate but to rwo things: And feet How eaſy a change ſers it righr? | | 15 To tears, to vows, falſe troth — 9% could ſhew you that word very*troth, in Shakeſpear a hundred times. T6. For there is nothing left thee now to look for, That can bring camfers, but a quiet grave. 1 re- nich lat? it. ofa © > his poſt A ful | ho 1 re it ers. fees mes. Which reduplication of the word gives a much ſtronger Book III. The Du NIA D. 145 Their full-fed Heroes, their pacific May'rs, 280 Their annual trophies, and their monthly wars. Tho long my Party built on me their hopes, For writing pamphlets, and for burning Popes ; (Diff rent our parties, but with equal grace The Goddeſs ſmiles on Whig and Tory race, 285 Tis the ſame rope at ſev'ral ends they twiſt, Io Dulneſs, Ridpath is as dear as Miſt.) 5 Yet lo! in me what authors have to brag on! Reduc d at laſt to hiſs in my own dragon. RE MAR ES. This I fear 1s of a piece with None but itſelf can be its parallel: for the grave put an end to all ſorrow, it can then need no comfort, Vet let 1 vindicate Shakeſpear where we can: I make no doubt he wrote thus, | | | | For there is nothing left thee now ro look for, Nowing that can bring quiet, but the grave, empha ſis td Violznte's concern. This figure is call'd e I could ſhevy jou a hundred juſt ſuch in him, if L had nothing elle to do. ” | SCRIBLERUS. VERSE 280. Annual trophies, on the Lord Mayor's Day; and | monthly wars, in the Artillery Ground, VERSE 281. Tho' long my Party. 1 Settle, like moſt Party- writers: was very uncertain in his political principles. He was employ'd to hold the pen in the character of 2 Popiſh ſucceſſor, but afterwardy printed his Narrative on the contrary fide. He managed the Ge. remony of a famous Pope-burning on Nov. 17, 1680 : then became 2 Trooper of King James's army at Hownflow-heath : After the Revoluti. on he kept a Booth ar Hartlemew. fair, where in his Droll call'd Sr. George for England, he acted in his old age in a'Dragon-of green leathes ol his own invention. He was at aſt taken into the C er-houſe, * and tors dyed, aged abour 60 years. | v. 285. To Dulneſs, Ridpath 75 as dear as Miſt.] George Ridpath, au- | thor for ſeveral years of the Fhing-Poſt, a Whig-P SNathanicl Mit | publiſher of the Weekly Journal, 2 Tory- paper. TS] Th Ait, IMITATIONS. V K RSE 28 3-84, — Wh equal grace, | | O 6 ddeſ 1 Whi 4 To L o . 3 Tros — of oy mak alle diſcriming hab - Nu, 10, — Rex Jupiter omnibes idem. N „ Ne Er ae eo ne * - & beams... © « \ N r "x7 * * * Ps * bi „ The inn Book III. Aves it, heay'n ! that thou or Cibber e'er 8 n . ACS 4 ot ate; vers $12 . 29 Ce 1 290 Should wag two ſerpent tails in Smithfield fair. iff Like the vile ſtraw that's blown about the ſtreets 1 | The needy Poet ſticks to all he meets, 1 Coach'd, carted, trod upon, now looſe, now fat, ' In the Dog's tail his progreſ ends at laſt. . | a 295 Happier thy fortunes! like a rolling ſtone, _— Thy giddy dulneſsftill ſhall lumber on, 1 Safe in its heavineſs, can never ſtray, Will And licks up every blockhead in the way. W Thy dragons Magiſtrates and Peers ſhall bs, _ 300 And from each ſhow riſe duller than the laſt : | 1 Till rais'd from Booths to Theatre, to Court, it i Her ſeat imperial, Dulneſs ſhall tranſport. | Already, Opera prepares the way, 1 I "The ſure fore-runner of her gentle ſway. Ky 205 To aid her cauſe, if heav'n thou can'ſt not bend, al L Hell thou ſhalt move; for Fauſtus is thy friend: : 4401 \_ Pluto with Cato thou 15 her ſhalt join, * And link the Mourning-Bride to Proſerpine. 0 WW REMARK S. VERSE 290. Thy dragons Magiſtrates and Peer: ſhall rafte? It ftood in the firſt edition wt blanks, Thy dragons and Concanes was fure, © they muſt needs mean no- body but the Ki- 2 and Queen, and Te laid he would infiſt it was fo, till the Poet clear d himſelf by fill- 4 2 * Ing up the blanks otherwiſe a N to the context, and conſiſ- 1 © tent with his allegiance, [Pret. to a Collection of Verſes, Eſſays, 8 Sc. againſt Mr. P. printed for A. Moore, pag. 6 ] N VERSE 307, — Fauſtus is thy friend, Pluto with Cato, &c.) KF « Names of miſerable Farces of Tibbald and others, which it was their cuſtom to get acted at the end of the beſt Tragedica, to {poll the dis geſtion of : ancence, IMITATIONS. vr RS E 305. — If beav'n thoy canſt not bend, Hel! ny” ps move =] Virg, Kn. 7. Ruder- nequeo ſuperes, ac heronta _— 1 Wem II. | Book III. The Du Nc t ADP. 147 1 CGrubftreet! thy fall ſhould men and Gods confpire, 210 Thy ſtage ſhall ſtand, enſure it but from Fire. Another Æſchylus appears! prepare , | For new Abortions, all ye pregnant Fair! 2 In flames, like Semeles, be brought to bed, While opening Hell ſpouts wild-fire at your head. 215 Now Bavius, take the poppy from thy brow, And place it here! here all ye Heroes bow ! This, this is He, foretold by ancient rhymes, Th' Auguſtus born to bring Saturnian times: Beneath his reign, ſhall Euſden wear the bays, 320 Cibber preſide Lord-Chaucellor of Plays, REMARKS. VERSE 310 —— enſure i: but f m fre] In Tibbald's Farce df | Preſerp/ne a Corn field was ſer on fire; whereupon the other Play- | | Houſe had a Barn burnr down for the recreation of che ſpectators. ] hey allo rival'd each other in ſhowing the Burnings of Hell-fire, in Dr. 8 5 , hel & vER 311. Another Xichylus appears! &c] It is orted Vſchylus, that when his Tragedy of thu Furies was nd — ence were ſo errify d that the children fel into fits, aud the big. bel - lied women miſcarried. Hbbald is tranſlating this au: hor : he Prints ed a ſpecimen of him mary years ago, of which Lo iy remember chat | the firſt Note contains iome compariſon between Promerheas and Chrift | | ama 6. | | t frood I VERS E 319. E ſden wear the bays.] Laurence E:ſden, P: et- Laure nen Was ate: Mr, Jacob gives a catalogue of ſome few only of his works, en, an which were very numerous. Mr. Creek in his Bartle of Lects faith of him by fill- FF. Fufden a {aurel'd Bard, by fortune rais'd, | * conſiſ - ee few was read, by fewer prais'd | | Effays, I Mr. Clemtxon in his Ar $ of Lozic ard Rhetoric, p. 413, 414. affirms, © That of all the Galimatia's he ever mer with, none comes up to o, &c) ff . ſome verſes of this Poct, which hve as much of the Ridiculum as their | © and the Fuſtian in em as can well.b- jumbled together, and are of the diy | * thar ſort of nonſenſe which fo perfectiy confounds all Ideas, that 9 x: there is no d iſt inct one left in che mind. Further he ſays of him, F 8 chat he hath propheſv'd his own Poetry ſhall be {weerer than catul. * © lus, Ovid, ard Tlullas, but we have lit.le hope of the accompliſh © ment of it from what he hath lately publiſh'd.“ Upon which Mr, | Oldmixon has nor ſpar'd a reflection, That the putting the Laurel Ion the head of one who writ ſuch veries, will give futurity a v 5 2 lively idea of the Judgment and Juſtice of thoſe who beſtow'd it. | Teid, p. 417 But the well-known learning of that Noble Perſon whe was then Lord Chamberlain, might have (creen'd h i | m f hi No nannerly reflection, Mr, Euſdon Was made 1 aurcaſe for 1 Give your N 2 mas ww ZY 1 ” = 4 he 4 - . > £ 4 Ye. * 4 . 10 N rh * 4 F 4 4 of 4 * 7 5 2 ; 1 8 | 4 : v 23 lived to finiſh it, 148 The DUN ciA D. Book III. B & * ſole Judge of Architecture fir, And Namby Pamby be prefer d for Wit! anne Tor that Mr. Ebbald was made Here of This Poem, becauſe there was 910 ltter te be had. Nor ought Mr. Old mien to complain, ſo long after, that the Laurel would better have become his own brows, or any other's : It were decent to acquieſce in the opinion of the Duke gf Hxckinghtm upon this matter. | | —— I, ruſb'd Euſden, and cry'd, Who ſhall have it, But TI the true Laureate to whom the Kin gave it? Apollo begg'd pardon, and granted his claim, N ut uew'd, that till then he ne er heard of his name. e D Seſſion of Poets, VERSE 321. B“ ſole judge of Architecture ſit,] 1 Bomnſong Hate Surveyor of the Buildings to his Majeſty King George I.) gave in A report to the Lerds, that Their Houſe and the Painted Chamber ad. Joining, were in immediate danger of falling. . met in a Committee to appoint ſome other place to ſit in, while the Houſe ſhould be taken down. Bur it being propoſed to cauſe ſome other Builders firſt to inſpect it, they found it in very good conditi. on. The Lords, upon this, were going upon an addreis to the King againſt &—7ſ—», for ſuch a miſrepreſentation ; but the Earl of S. gerland, then Secretary, gave them an aſſurance that his Majeſty would remove him, which was done according In favour of this man, the famous Sir Chriſtopher Wren, who ha Architect to the Crown fer above oy ears, who laid the firſt ſtone of St. Paw!'s, and ha diſplac'd from his employment at the age of near-ninety years. VERSE 322, ——_—_— Pa An author whoſe eminence in The Infantine ſtile obrain'd him this name.“ He was (faith Mr. Ja- cos) one of the Wits at Button s, and a Juſtice of the Peace.“ But fince he hath met with higher preferment, in Ireland and a much reater character we have of him in Mr. GI L 0Dox's Compleat Arrt:of 'Poerry, vol. 1. p. 67. Indeed he confeſſes, he dares not ſet hin wite on the ſame foot with Virgil, leſt it would ſeem Flattery : bur he << 1s much miſtaken if poſterity does not afford him a greater eſtien than he at preſent enjoys.” This is ſaid of his Paſterals, of which ſte In the Appendix the Guardian, at large. He endeavour'd to create Ame miſ-underftanding between our author and Mr. _—_—_ whom alfo ſoon after he abuſed as much. His conſtant cry was, that Mr. . was an Enemy to cke government; and in particular he was the avow- £d author ofa report very induſtriouſly ſpread, that he had a hand is a Party-paper call'd the Examiner: A falſhood well known to tho | a living, who had the direction and publication of it, Qui mepriſe Cotin, #'eſtime point fon Roy, | | E we, (elan Cotin, ) ai Dieu, ni Foy, i Loy. TMITATIONS FER SE: 313, Like dune ] Sce Ovid, Mu. 1. hereupon the Lords [ duilder to do the infide, Whitehall, the Chnrch and Piazza of cventgurdem and t and Chappel of Somerſet- houſe, the works of the famous Injge Jones, | wonderful effe it: Sophocles and Euripides wete leſs follow'd and famous. It was a&- | ed in London fixty-three days, uninterrupted ;. and renew'd the England, was play d in many places to the | Bath and Briftdl 30, &c. It made its progreſs into Wales, Scotland And Ireland, where it was performed 2 together. The fame of t once the favourite of the town ; Book III. The Du NIA D. 149 Whiile naked mourns the Dormitory wall, And Jones and Boyle's united labours fall, 325 While Wren with ſorrow to the grave deſcends, Gay dies un- penſion d with a hundred Friends, REMARKS. VERSE 323. Dormitory wall.] The Dormitory in Weftminfley was 2 building intended for the lodging of the King's Scholars, toward which a'ſum was left by Dr. Edw. Hannes, the reſt was raiſed by con- tributions procured from ſeveral eminent pertons by the interſt of Francis late Biſhop of Richefter, and Dean of Weſtminſter, He requeſted the Earl of Burlington to be the Architect, who carry'd on the work till the Bill — chat learned Prelate was brought in, which ende in his baniſument. The ſhell being finiſhed according to his Lords _— Dean and Chapter empſoy'd a common which 1s perform'd accordingly. | VERSE 324. And Jones and Boyle's united labours fall.] Ar the ſame time when this. Poem was written, the Banqueting bouts of ace ſhip's deſign, the ſucc had been for many years ſo neglected, as to be in danger of ruin. The Portico of Covent-garden Church had been juſt then reſtored and. | beaurify'd at the expence of Richard Earl of Burlington , who, at the ſame time, by his publication ef the defigns of that great Maſter and Palladio, as well as by many noble buildings of his own, revived the: true Taſte of ArchiteQure in this Kingdom. | "ThE VERSE 326. Gay dies #n-penfion'd, &c. ] See Mr. Gay's Fable of the Hare and Many Friends, This gentleman was early in the friend ip of our author, which has continued many years. He wrote ſeve« ; ra] works of humour with great — the Shepherd's Week, Trivia, the What &'ye call it, &c. (printed together in 4, by J Tonſon) Fables, | andlaftly, the celebrated Beggars Opera, a piece of Satire which hir all taſtes and degrees of men, from ſe of the higheſt Quality ta the very Rabble : That verſe of Horace Quality | Primores populi arripuit, populumque tributim,, eould never be ſo juſtly applied as to this. The vaſt ſucceſs of It w_ r and almoſt incredible: What is related of s oft he ancient Muſic or Tragedy hardly came up to next ſeaſon with equal applauſes. Tr ſpread into all the great towns of th, and gorh time, ac it was not confin'd to the author only; the Ladies carry'd abour with em the favourite ſongs of it in Fans z and houſes were furniſh'd with it in Screens, The perſon who a&ed Polly, till then obſcure, became all r Pictures were engraved and fold in great numbers; her Life written; books of Letters and Verſtz, | to ber publim d, and parphlers made even of her Saying? and Jef, © $74 ARA AG RE RG IE, 150 The Dunxc1ap. Book III. Hibernian Politicks, O Swift, thy doom, And Pope's,tranſlating three whole years with Broome. | Proceed great days! till Learning fly the ſhore, 330 Till Birch ſhall bluſh with noble blood no more, Till Thames ſee Eton's ſons for ever play, Till Weſtminſter's whole year be holiday; Till Iſis“ Elders reel, their Pupils ſport ; And Alma Mater lye diffoly'd in Port! 335 Signs following ſigns lead on the Mighty Year ; See! the dull ftars roll round and re-appear. REMARK S. Furthermore, it drove out of England the Tralien Opera, which had earry'd all before ir ten years: Thar Idol of the Nobility and people, which the great Critick Mr. Dennis by the labours and outcries of a whole life could not overthrow, was demoliſh'd in one winter by 2 fingle ſtroke of this gentleman's pen. This remarkable period hap- en'd in the year 1728. Vet ſo great was his modeſty, that he con- ftantly prefixed to all the editions of it this Motto, Nos hac novimus efje nihil. VERS E 327. Hibernian politicht, O Swift! thy doom] The Poli- ticks of England and Ireland at this time were thought by ſome to be poſite or interfering with each other. Dr. Swift of courſe was in | = intereſts of the latter. = VERSE 328. 4nd Pope's, tranſlating three whole years with Broome,] He concludes his Irony with a ftroke upon himſelf: For whoever imagines this a ſarcaſm on the other ingenious perſon is greatly miſ- taken. The opinion our author had of him was ſufficiently ſhown, dy his joining him in the undertaking of the Odyſſey : in which Mr. Broome having ingaged without any previous agreement, diſcharged his part ſo much to Mr. Pope's fatisfa&tion, that he gratihed him with the full ſum of Five hundred pounds, and a preſent of all thoſe books for which his own intereſt could procure him Subſcribers, to the value of One hundred more, The author only ſeems to lament, that he was im- ploy'd in Tranſlation at all. IMITATIONS. VERSE 317. This, this is he, foretold by ancient rhymes, JI Auguſtus, &c.] Virg. Kn. 6. | Hic vir, hic eſt ! tibi quem promitti ſapius audis, Auguſtus Ceſar. divum genus; aurea condet Saæcula qui rurſus Latio, regnata per ar va Saturno quondam ! $aturnian here relates to the age of Lead, ment ion'd book l. ver. 26; ERS E 329. Proceed great days ] Virg. Ecl. 4. | n—_— {ſc magni ꝓrecedere menſes. * Book III. The Du N IAD. 151 She comes! the Cloud-compelling Pow'r, behold ! With Night Primeval, and with Chaos old, Ome« 3 e, Io! the great Anarch's ancient reign reſtor d, : 240 Light dies before her uncreating word: As one by one, at dread Medea's ſtrain, 5 N The ſick ning Stars fade off the a thereal plain; F As Argus' eyes, by Hermes wand oppreſt, : Clos' d one by one to everlaſting reſt; 345 Thus at her felt approach, and ſecret might Art after Art goes out, and all is Night. See ſculking Truth in her old cavern lye, Secur'd by mountains of heap'd caſuiſtry: bot 1 REMARKS ho 4 VERSE 337- She comes ! the Cloud-compelling pow'r, Be hold! Ke.} hap- ? Here the Muſe, like Jove's Engle, after a ſudden ſtoop at ignoble con- game, ſoareth again to the skies. As ky + wy hath ever been one mus of the chief provinces of Poeſy, our poet here foretells from what we | feel, what we are to fear; and in the ſtyle of other Prophets, hath „ol: ned the future tenſe for the preterit; fince what he ſays ſhall be, 1 o be Already to be ſeen, in the writings of ſome even of our moſt adored sin authors, in Divinity, Philoſop 7 Phyfics, Metaphyfics, Cc. (who | are too good indeed to be named in eh Um any.) Do not gentle reader, reſt too ſecure in thy contempt of the Inſtruments for ſuch a revolution in learning, or deſpiſe ſuch weak agents as have been de- ſcribed in our poem, but remember what the Butch ſtories ſomewhere relate, that a great part of their Provinces was once oyerflow'd, by a ſmall opening made in one of their dykes by a ſingle Vater- Rat. However, that ſuch is not ſeriouſly the judgment of our Poet, but that he conceiveth better hopes from the diligence of our Schools, from the regularity of our Univerſities, the diſcernment of our Great men, the encouragement of our Patrons, and the genius of our Wri- ters in all Kinds, (notwithſtanding ſome few exceptions in each) may plainly be ſeen from his concluſion ; where by cauſing all this Viſion to paſs thro? the Trory Gate, he expreſly in the language of pony declares all ſuch imaginations to be wild, ungrounded, and ctitious. | | | | SCRIBLERUMS VERSE 347. Truth in her old cavern he,] Alludes to the ſaying of Democritus, that Truth lay at the bottom of a deep well. IMITATIONS. 26. VERS E 343. A. Argus eyes by Hermes wand oppreſt.] | | 5 1 mY Ovid. Met. 2. Et quamvis ſopoy eft oculorum parte receptus. Parte tamen vigilat == Vidit Cyllenius omnes, | Succubniſſe oculos, &c. ibid. | N 4 152 Philoſophy, that touch'd the Heavens before, 350 Shrinks to her hidden Cauſe, and is no more: See Phyſic beg the Stagyrite's defence See Metaphyſic call for aid on Sence! See Myſtery to Mathematicks fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. 355 Thy hand great Dulneſs! lets the curtain fall, And univerſal Darkneſs covers all. Enough! enough | the raptur'd Monarch cries; And thro' the Ivory ware the Viſion flies, E © ZF#MI 74 TION 9 VERS E 358, nd thre the Tvory Gate the Viſion flies ] Sunt gemina ſomni porta; quarum altera fertar Cornea, qua veris facilis darur exitus umbris; Altera, candenti Perfecta nitens elephan:o, _ Sed Hale ad 1 mittunt inſomnia mant, nr The Dux ci AD. Book III. Varg. En, 6 — % ws wW my Mm» Foot on 4 vw mg. th A dA Ho = oe Aa ts n Certain Verſes were never made public "Tr © NM. SCRIBLERUS Ledoori. "HE Errata of this Edition we thought (gentle reader) to have T truſted to thy candor and benigniry, to correct with thy pen, as accidental Faults eſcaped the preſs : Bur ſeeing that certain Cenſors do give to ſuch the name of Corruptions of the Text and falſe Readings, charge them on the Editor, and judge that correcting the ſame is to be called Reſtoring, an Atchievement that brings Honour to the Critic , we have in like manner taken it upon ourſelves. Book i. Verſe 8. Eer Pallas iſſu'd from tbe Thund'rers head, Ele is the contraction of ever, but that is by no means the ſenſe in this place: Correct it, without the leaſt ſcruple, E're, the contraction of or-ere, an old Engliſh word for before, What Ignorance ef our mo- ther tongue ! Verſe 6. Stil Dunce L ſecond reigns like Dunce the frſt. Read in- 2 Rill Dance the ſecond = Want of knowledge in the very Verſe 23, 24. = tho? her power retires, Grieve not at ought our ſiſter realms acquire, Read — our fifter realm acquires. Want of Ear even in Rhime! _ Verſe 38. Lintot's r#bric's poſt, Read rubric p:fl. I am aware there is ſuch a Subſtantive as Rubric, The Rubric ; but here (I can aſſure the Editor) it is an Adjective. | | Verſe 189. Remarks, C'eſt le mem quem Marc Tulle. Correct it bold- y, le meme que Marc Tulle. Ignorance in the French! Bid. Verſe 167, Ey ve pe gnp Se, correct the Accents thug; EN yipe=—=axfpiruy, Cor. dyfporauy Want of underſtand> | ing in Greek! 3 | Book i. verſe 258. Rem. Tenderneſs for « bad writer, read the bad writers, Plur. Falſe Engliſh : No Relative! : 2 Book iii. verſe 167. Remarks for Naſus Amore, pio Pueri. Read Ns ſus, a proper Name, Unskilfuineſs in Latin! | 5 2 — 208, Imit. Vc, alegon, Monſtrous Diviſion! away with that omma ! Book ii. verſe 369. Leave out theſe words Vben he came in. io the Adminiſtration , For theſe Gentlemen never write againſt any man in power, This betrays great want of knowledge in Authors! After ſo ſhameful ignorance in Greek, Latin, French, Eng liſp, Quan- tity, Accent, Rhyme, Grammar, we cannot wonder at ſuch Errors as the following. Book 1. verſe 101. Rem, for 254, read 258. and for 300, read 281, ——— Book ii. verſe 75, for Here r. Hear, Verſe 118. Rem. col. 2. for Libel, read filly beck, it deſerves not the name of a Libel. Verſe 258, for Courts of Chancery r. Offices, for thoſe Courts, r. that Court, and for them r. it. Verſe 319. for ſacred r. ſecret. Book iii. verſe 6. Imit, for hederam r. heder am. Verſe 56. for run forward, r. raſh ward, We muſt alſo obſerve the careleſs manner of ſpelling ſome - times Satyr, ſometimes Satire, in the Notes, probably from the diffe- rent 9 of the various Annotators ; however no excuſe for the Editor, who ought conſtantly to have ſpelled it Satire. In our Prolegomena likewiſe, pag. 12. line 6. where it is ſaid, Ka by Curl their own Bookſeller , orre& and ſtrengthen the paſſage chus, never. made Publick iiil in their own Journals, and by Curl their own Bookſeller, Cc. Bur this. entle reader, be ſo candid as to believe the Error only of the | | Pale & fruere. SR, + 4 * „ eee eee eee eee FIT 7 (154) 1 N D E . 2 OF PERSONS celebrated i in this Poem, A. Admnoger Philips. i. 103. iii. Alarie 111i. 83 Attilla. iii. 84 LACMORE, Kir Richard i 1. 102, ii. 249 | Beſaleel, Morris. ii. 118 Banks. i. 250 Blome. i. 126 | Bond. ii. 118. iii. 151 Brown. 111. 20 _ Budgel, Eſq; ii. 367 Boyer "Abel, ij. 38 3 Breval ( n Bavius. iii. 16 tians. iii 43 Bruin and Bears. i. 99 . A AXTON, Will i. 12 Curll, Edm. . 38. 11. 3, $4, I61, &c. Cook, Tho. ii. 130 2nd 289 Concanen, Matthew. ibid. Centlivre, Suſannah, ii. 381, iii. : Cibber, Colly. 1 240. iii 33 i Chi-hoamte Emperor of 885 111. 67 1 D. | ANIEL, Defoe. i. 101 ji. 139 Dennis, John i. 104. ii. 233, 273. iii. 167 8 George, Eſq; 1 iii. 125 J. Durant) ii. 118, and 232 =t, Thomas Eſq; iii. 174, | PS B—n, Will. Efq, iii. 321 | W 11 395 Dunton, „John. ii. 136 Durfey. iii. 138 | Dutchmen, iii. 43 E. USDEN [Laurence.) 1. 102. tit, 319 Eliza, Haywood, 11. 149, and iii. 145 | F. LECKNO, Richar d. 1 11. 2 Foxton. iii. IST — 6. | ILDON, Charles. A167. Goths. iii. 82 H. OLLAND, Philemon. i 1. 134 Horneck, (Philip) i 111. 146 Haywood, Eliza, ii. 149, Cc. iii. 145 Howard, Edward. i. 250 Henley, John, the Orater, 1 11. 2, ile I95, Co. Huns 111. 82 - I TOHNSTON, Chartes. i 1. 240 Jacob, Giles. Ml, 149 L. Lr Bernard. i. 38. ii. 49 King Log. i. 260 x 1. 240. lib MORE ih. a dd ar on oe koh AREA 1 8 III. iii, lib. KE M. ORE (] ames) ii. 46, e. M — (Beſaleel) 1 11, 118 Miſt, Nathaniel. I, 194. iii. 286 | MGibaurn, Luke. ii 327 Mahomet 111. 89 ; Mears, W. 11. M7. iii. 20 Motteux, Peter. ii. 384 Monks, 111. 44 N. 7 de Foe, ii. 232, and 5 Naſo. 11. 384 Namby Pamby. iii. 322 0. Orb, John, 5 j. 121 | Oldmixon, John. ! 11. 201 Orell, John. 1. 240 | Oftrogorhs. iii. 85 | _ the Ottoman Emperor. iii. . ode. i Ts 3$, iii. 160 * RYNN, William. i. 101 Philips, Ambroſe. i i. 103, iii. 322 @- UARLES, Francis. 1. 126 Querno, Camillo. ii. 1. INDEX 135 Nur, | John, 5 iii. 199 Roome, Edward. iii. 146 Ridpath, George 11, 141. iii. 286 Roper, Abel. ii. 141 | 8. ETTLE, Elkanah, Ss $8, 1852 iii 27 Smedley (Jonathan) 3 11. 281, &.. Shadwell, Tho it, 326 Scholiaſts i. 159 7. | 8 Tor Lewis pal im. Tutchin, John. ii. 140 | Toland, , John Jo 369. iii. 208 Tindal, Dr. ii. 369. 111. 208 Taylor, John, the Water Poet. its 325 | U. ANDALS. iii. 98 Viſigoths. iii. 86 : ; W, ITHERS, Geor e. i. 126 Wynkin d e Werde, i. 12$-- d, Edward. 1. 200. iii. 138 W 2 Tho. ii. 117 Wilkins, ibid. Welſted, Leonard. ii. 199, 295. jii. 163 Woolſton, Tho. iii. 210 Wormius. 111, 184 11 6 R 7 " 4 1 1 F x 8 LE E: 11 22 > 4 6 2 unh * eee any nn r 8 * N A. . * — —— — i 1 : 1 i 4 1 | 4 i 1 | { — 0 — ner | * Winftanleys [156] I N D E . 4 OF THE = ' AUTHORS 'of the Norzs. Anthers Lives of Poets. Cy Book i. Verſe 121, 122, 126, 134. b. * . Giles jacob, ) v. 104, 106, 200, 240, ibid, Ii. 201, 367, 111. 149. Adr, Edm, Curl, b. i. v. 48, 240. ii. 46, 66, 116, 149, 370, iii. 26, r, Charles Gildon, ii. 258, 134. iii. 322. : Ar, LEE Theobald, b. 1. v. 49, 104, 106, 129, 162, 221. ii. 177. iii. 22, Mr. John Dennis, b. i. v. 81, 88, tog, 106, 162, ii. 111, 134, 25% 2959 382, 111. 16. ö A. Miſt, Publiſper of the TJonrnal, v. i. v. 106, 129. U. 134. Flying-Poſt, b. ii. London Journal, b. ii. ard. ili. Daily Journal, b. i. 61. Oc. onathan Smedley, b. ii. 130, 295. N. John 9 b. i. 102. iii. 319. 77 . Ralph, b. i. v. 1, 28, 31. ii. 117. elſtede, b. iii. 16, 195. 25 learned Martinus Scriblerus, ana otters, paſſim. 8 4 r e 2 e al 1 —— —ͤä—— mms mens = —_ N - —— - T — 3 — — ge r . N D — AC nr 6b b0t on es ee et A ELLE 42 * 2 * 444 4950+ Sp 4 > * 7 FLOG > 10> 15 TY = 2 2 5 4 4 54004 * * * 2 C & ad 5 ” * rors in all the Editions of the ELneid, * M. Sc R- LERUS. F ES rn” ce PiE Es contained in the Appendix. REFACE of the Publiſhcr, profixed to the "A imperfect Editions of the Dunciad, 885 at Dublin and London. A Lift of Books, Papers, Ec. in which our Author was abuſed : with the Naw Writers. WILLIAM CAxro his Proeme to Tneidos. VIX GIL RESTORED: Or a Specimen of the Er- A Continuation of the G UARDIAN (No 40) on Paſto- ral Poetry. A Parallel of the Characters of Mr. DR VDE x and Mr. Pop E, as drawn by certain of their 1 Authors. | liſhed. InDExXof . ee in this Book... es of ths (hitherto 1 d) A Lift of all our Author's s Genuine Works hitherto = og | (159) wo [PREFACE Prefix'd to the Five Imperfect — 2 Editions of the DoNcIAb, 05 Printed at Dublin and London, = in Octavo © Dnod, uy © The PuBLISHER to the READER» b- BE TT will be found a true obſervation, tho ſomewhat | 1 ſurpriſing, that when any ſcandal is vented againſt a man of the higheſt diſtinction and character, either in the State or in Literature, the publick in gene- | cal afford it a moſt quiet EE, . the larger part accept i. „„ — Wn The Publiſber) Who he was 1s uncertain , ws Edward Werd tell | vs in his Preface to Vurgen, that 7 molt Judges are of opigion this — — Dr a Ee acrept it as favourably as if it were Come kindneſs dont to themſelves: Whereas if a known ſcoundrel or block- head chance but to be touch'd upon, a whole legion is up Þ in arms, and it becomes the common cauſe of all Scrib. lers, Bookſellers, and Printers whatſoever. i Not to ſearch too deeply into the Reaſon hereof, I will only ebſerve as a Fa#, that every week for theſe two Months paſt, the town has been perſecuted with (4) | Pamphlets, Advertiſements, Letters, and weekly Eſſays, Bot only againft the Wit and Writings, but inſt the Character and Perſon of Mr, Pope. And that of all thoſe men who have received pleaſure from his Writings (which by modeft computation may be about a (c) hundred thou- ſand in theſe Kingdoms of England and Ireland, not to mention Ferſey, Guernſey, the Orcades, thoſe in the New Forld, and Foreigners who have tranſlated him into their languages) of all this number, not a man hath ſtood up 10 ſay one word in his defence. The only exception is the (d) Author of the following Poem, who doubtleſs had either a better inſight into the rounds of this clamour, or a better opinion of Mr. Pope's | integrity, join'd with a greater perſona] love for him, than any other of his numerous friends and admirers. ' Further, that he was in his peculiar intimacy, appears from the knowledge he manifefts of the moſt private Au- | thors of all the anonymous pieces againſt him, and from c „ü — N 4 preface is not of Engli Extraction but Hibernian, &c. He means | h Dr. Swift, who wherher Publiſher or not, may be ſaid in a fort ro be 7 'Author of the Poem : For when He, together with Mr. Pope, (for re- ſons ſpecify'd in their Preface to the Miſcellanies) determined to own | © the moſt trifling pieces in which they had any hand, and to deſtroy 7 all that remain'd in their power, the firſt Sketch of this poem was ſnatch'd from the fire by Dr. Swift, who perſuaded his friend to pro- * ceed in it, and to him it was therefore inſcribed, . (t) Pamphlets, Advertiſements, &c. ] See the Lift of theſe anen - mous papers, with their dares and authors thereunto annexed, Ne 2 | * v (c) About à hundred thouſand.) It is ſurprizing with what ſtxpidit N 5 4s 1 chis Preface, which is almoſt a continued Irony, was taken by theſe Authors. This paſſage among others they underſtood to be ſerious. (4) The Author ef the following Poem, &c.) A very plain Irony, ſpeak- N | his | done locks 1s up cribs I will > two h (0) ſſays, ſt the thoſe y hich thou- Ot to > New their od up Wing o the Pope's than pears e Au- from Reader; but it would have been a wr detain d this publication: ſince thoſe Names which are its chief ornaments, die off daily ſo faſt, as muſt. render it too ſoon unintelligible. If it provoke the Author to give. us a more perfect edition, I have my end. | | to have it paſs for luſions to Virgil, and a labor d (not to | xeſs in imitation of him, I ſhould think him more am admirer of the Roman Poet than of the Grecian, and. im that not of the ſame taſte with his Friend. BH. | i „ &c. So alfo Mrd, Pref. ro Durg. g * the.pleaſures of life, to but half finiſh his abuſive. undertakin . | © tho' it is ſomewhat difficult to conceive, from either irs Bulk or Iv Beauty, chat it cou'd be ſo long in hatching, & c. Bur the — GG „ Time and cloſeneſs of" appli ' x reader with a Red opinion of e 2 * 8 * Ney. the Frefacer to Mr. Curl Key (4 great Critick) 5 ; different ſentiment, and thought it might be Written in fix. ow. ur days... | It is to bebopeckthey will'as wellunderſtand; and 28 grave den what Secriblerus Nach fad of this Gm. ä APPENDIX 162 kis having in this Poem attacked (e) no man living, who had not before printed or publiſhed ſome ſcandal againſt- this partieular Gentleman. How I. became poſſeſt of it, is of no concern to the to him, had Who he, is, I cannot ſay, and (which is great pity} there is certainly (F) nothing in. his ſtyle and mannes of writing, which can diftinguiſhy, or diſcover him, Fos il it bears any reſemblance to that of Mr. P. tis not im- probable but it might be done on purpoſe, with a view: nis But by 2 of his. al J have been well inform'd, that this work was the la- | | bour of full (g) ſix years of his life, and that he retired. a * 4 4 N | : i (e) The Pabliſher in theſe words went a little too far: hut It is- certain whatever Names the Reader finds that are unkown to him, ara | of ſuch: and the e : i wag mankind agree to have juſtly entitled them to a place in the Dunciad. | i O There is certainly nothing in bis Style, $c.{ This Tfony had fall efect in concealing the Author. The Dunciad, imperfe& as it was. | — not been publiſh'd rwo days, but the whole Town gave it to Mr. Pee. a f = , GE) The. Labour ef full ſix: years, &. J. This alſo was honeſtly, and ſeris- | Ouſly believ'd, by divers of the Gentlemen of the | exception 1s only of two or three, whoſe dulneſs or | 7 Dunciad. 0 Ralph, ret; to Jawney, © We are told it was the labour of fir years, | ft aſiduity:and application; It is no great compliment to the Author's ſenſe, ro have employed ſo large. A part of his 3 | Diinciad-as rhe Pubiith> uthor fix years retirement from «ll with the utmoſt " er very wiſely confeſſes, coſt the cation: were. mentioned to Pepe de Nevertheleſs t 0 1 himſelf a ected) ſbort - g 1 — ag — e — 5 ; _—_——— «r een re "Io n pes 2 r An * ie «6g + „ EA _— E * , „ 1 0 . 5 Deer by 3 * 8 « 4 3 2 1 * " 8 - - TRE | F 333 r _ "nt nh * ON 1 — RR WWE; n 22 * n 3 © fo 1 I» * 3 be Wan * 2 1 7 : 7 * a 4 4 97 eas ” * Sec ( * Ws 3 r ib = 1 7 *. F — Fe 4 2.1085 LAY : . uy + a A . I e. 5 2 e ” > * G . 8 Y TY 8 wk * 4 ta: Fx ag; . 2 ET 222 . 2 F hi : * Tee 8 29 = 1 2 ** "3 8 — — . * BS e „EN 14 bimſelf entirely from all the avocations and pleaſures of 1 the world, to attend diligently to its correction and per- fection; and fix years more he intended to beftow upon it, as it ſhould ſeem by this verſe of Statius, which was cited at the head of his manuſcripft. Oh mihi biſſenos multum vigilata per annot, () Duncia | VVVTàMã Hence alfo we learn the true Title of the Poem; which with the ſame certainty as we call that of Homer the Iliad, of Virgil the Æneid, of Camoens the Luſiad, of Voltain the Henriad (7), we may pronounce could have been, and can be no other, than e The Dunciav. It is ſtyled Heroic, as being doubly ſo; not only with reſpect to its nature, which according to the beſt Rules of the Ancients and ſtricteſt ideas of the moderns, is critical- Iy ſuch; but alſo with regard to the Heroical diſpoſition and high courage of the Writer, who dar'd to ſtir up _ a formidable, irritable, and implacable race of mor- als. „ . | : The time and date of the Action is evidently in the laſt reign, when the office of City Poet expir'd upon the death of Elkanahb Settle, and he has fix'd it to the May- oralty of Sir Geo. Thorold. But there may ariſe ſome 0 ſcurity in Chronology from the Names in the Poem, by the inevitable removal of ſome Authors, and inſertion of others, in their Niches. For whoever will conſider the Unity of the whole deſign, Fill be ſenſible, that the Poem cas nat made for theſe Authors, but theſe Authors fu the Poem: And I ſhould judge they were clapp'd in 31 they roſe, freſh and freſh, and chang'd from day to day, * 8 D * * — 4 ren ——ͤů We dy — 4 24 * 1 * * . Ix F 1 — 5. „ 2 7 4 & 3 In, 2 1 1 9 1 4 3 1 3 * 2 * 8 1 2 > 8 S. * 3 2 447 V2 + 1 8 2. 8 7 % "5 85 v4 W 1 4 13 $5 F=1 2 «28: 8 4 90 ©: $42 3+ 4£9 1 75 1 by FF $f Ss ©: 7 1 : 1221 A * 2 . . | 1 1 * 15 1 > £4 ks : 7 : 1 : 8 a X 1 3 TS . 13 1 7 : 4 = t : +4 * 14 1 6 II 3? ; 9 11. 2 4 E FI = x 1 * jv 4% 1 # 85. A 2 : 5 1 175 1 22 * 45 1235 28 1 3 — Wa 9 —.— FO MAKE 1 1 W * rer 2 N 9 . b ˖— — —— — ny — r — 94 4 — * r — : — ; — — — ) The ſame learned Prefacer took this word to be really in Sram ff * By a quibble on the word Duncia, the Dunciad is formed, pag. Mr. Ward alſo follows him in the ſame opinion. P „he Henriad.] The French Poem of Monſieur Voltaire, entitle Ss Henriade, had been publiſh'd at London the year before. N b 2 es of per- upon 1 Was hich lad, Jtairg „ and with les of itical- ſition 1r up mor- n the MN the May- e 0 Stati. r -nticlelf APPENDIX new ones into a chimney I would not have the reader too much troubled or anxious, if he cannot decypher them; ſince when he ſhall have found them out, he will probably know ne more of the Perſons than before. Yet we judg'd it better to preſerve them as they are, than to change them for f#&itions names, by which the Satyr would only be multiplied, and applied to many inſtead of one. Had the Hero, for inſtance, been called codrus, how many would have affirm'd him to be Mr. F Mr. D—— Sit R B——, Oc. but now, all that unjuſt ſcandal is ſaved, by calling him Theobald, which by good luck happens to be the name of a real | ' perſon I am indeed aware, that this name may to ſome ap- pear too mean, for the Hero of an Epic Poem: But it is hoped, they will alter that opinion, when the find, that an Author no leſs eminent than Ia Bruyere has thought him worthy a place in his Characters. Poudrieꝝ vous, THEOBALDE, que je cruſſe que vous etes baiſſe? que vous n' etes plus Poete, ni bel efprit ? que vous etes preſentement auſſi mauvais Fuge de tout genre da Cuvrage, que mechant Auteur? Votre air libre & preſump- tueux me vaſſure, & me perſuade tout le contraire, &c. Cha- | racteres, Vol. I. de la Societe & ade la Converſation, p. 176. Edit. Amſt, 1720. | | n, by : | ion f | er the it the ors for 6 in 1 0 day, 163 in like manner as when the old boughs wither, we thruſt . > © ou e are ag: D eee n * - > | * e dag 2 2 r A IS ama * Fla oh, OO EINE <6.t rs ov * 5 2 « ; & + E N h +..45 : : * ts 0 — 5 f 8 i 44 +: . 4 1 ; . 4 * 5 — | * b 2 2 Fl : | 1 77 g TRE 1 $28 120 : : | Le £1 | i 8 . 54 25 d N E 1 b 1 - 4 . * : | : | | | | | | 18 FB N ; | a *# Books, Pap ERS and VERSEs, | IN WHICH Oar Auron was abuſed, printed | before the Publication of the Dur | eiad: With the true Names of ba | #be Authors. 1 EFLECTIONS Critical: and Satyrical' on - late Rhapſod called an Eſſay on Criticiſm. By Mr. Dennis. Printed for B: Lintot. price q d]. A New Rehearſal, or Bays the Younger, containing 1 an Examen of Mr. Roeve's Plays, and a word or two upon Vir. Pope's Rape of the Locke. Anon, [Charles Cildan.] Printed for . Roberts, 1714. price 12. 1 FHomerides, or a Letter to Mr. Pope, occaſion ' d by his intended Tranſlation of Homer. 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Ad- vertiſed before the Daily Journal, Apri? 13, 1728. publication of the Dunciad in tlic Characters of the Times, or an Account of the Writ- | ings, CharaQters, Ec. of feveral' Gentlemen libell'd by and y in a. late Miſcellany, 89 1728. [Cf Remarks On Mr. Pope's Rape of the Locke, in Letters. Mr. Dennis. 1 Written in 1714, tho' not Ferſet;. 166 APPENDIX. It Verſes, Letters, Eſays, or Advertiſements in | 8 PE the publick Prints. | 110 Britiſh Journal, Nov. 25, 1727. A Letter on Swift and! 1 Pope's Miſcellanies. [Writ by Concanen.] _ 5 | 2340 Daily Journal, March 18, 1728. A Letter by Phil | 1 mauri. [ Fames Moore Smyth.] | 1 | Wk Id. Mirch 29. A Letter about Therſetes and accuſing the 1 Author of Diſaffection to the Government. [ Moore Smyth! 1 Miſt's Weekly Journal, March 30. An Eſſay on the 1 Arts of a Poet's ſinking in reputation, Or a ſupplement . to the Art of ſinking in Poetry [ſuppoſed by Mr. Theo- 1 bald _ 585 N Daily Journal, April 3. A Letter under the name of . 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Lohn Dennis.] | . 3 All theſe were afterwards reprinted in a Pamphlet en- titled, A collection of all the Verſes, Eſſays, Letters and“ Advertiſements occaſion'd by Pope and Swift's Miſcella | nies. Prefaced by Concanen, Anonymous, 89, * + 295 — T A * di # NN Sh be." ou F * wie a , - "Vc" r VISOR 1 Nn l — N 7 2 e — — _ - — — a — ' N 5 —— „ 0 e — — — wy —_— re A * — —— r g K ˙ ·L . As + GAA UB. a bo ot I rn — IN —— —ᷓ— *** 1 in 7 and PHilo- 8 the nyth.] 1 the ment Theo- ne of 4 Mi. wyck- upon ome.) | Moore t Dr. id 2. xx . tions. 129. ater ewis ge, en- and ell | nted | tor printed for . Roberts. $9. APPENDIX. for A. Moore, 1728. price Is. Others of an elder date, | having lain as waſte paper many years, were upon the 4 abllenrion of the Dunciad brought out, and their Au- | thors betrayed by the mercenary Bookſellers (in hope of ſome poſſibility of vending a few) by advertiſing them in this manner —— The Confederates, a Farce, by Capt. Bre- val, (for which he is put into the Dunciad.) An Epilogue 70 Powwel's Pu ppetſ ow, by Col. Ducket, (for which he is put into the Dunciad ) Eflays, & c. by Sir Rich. Blackmore. N. B. It is for a paſſage in pag. — of this book that Sin Richard was put into the Dunciad.) And ſo of others. After the DUNCI AD, 1728. | XN Effay on the Dunciad, 8. printed for 7. Roberts. [In this book, pag. 9. it was formally declared, | « That the complaint of the aforeſaid Pieces, Libels, « and Advertiſements, was forged and untrue, that all e mouths had been filent except in Mr. Pope's praiſe, and „ nothing againſt him publiſh'd, but, by Mr. TuzoBaLD. price 6 d. | Sawney, in blank Verſe, occaſion'd by the Dunciad, with a Critique on that Poem. [By &. Ralph, a perſon never mention'd in it at firft, but inſerted after this.] rice 15. ” oe Rs A compleat Key to the Dunciad, by E. Curl, 129. rice 6d. „ 3 3 5 a A ſecond and third Edition of the ſame, with Addi- The Popiad, by E. Curl, extracted from . Dennis, Sir R. Blackmore, & c. price 6 d. The Female Dunciad, collected by the ſame Mr. Cur}, 120 price 6d. With the Metamorphoſis of P ſtinging Nettle, [by Mr. Fox ton. ] 129. . The Metamorphoſis of Svriblerus into Snarlerus, [by . Snedley.] printed for A. More. Folio. price 6 d. 1 The Dunciad diſſected, or Farmer P. and his Son, bß Curl, 129. * 167 5 into a 163 APPENDIX An Effay on the Taſte and Writings of the preſent times, ſaid to be writ by a Gentleman of C. C. C. Ox2z. printed for . Roberts, 8%. N The Arts of Logic and Rhetorick, partly taken from | Bouwhours, with new Reflections, Oc. [by ohn Oldmixon. ] r | | oY A Supplement to the Profund, Anon. [By Matthew Concanen.] 8®. | : e Aliſt's Weekly Journal, dune 8. A long Letter ſign d W. A. [Dennis, Theobald, and others.) Daily Journal, une 11. A Letter ſign'd PBoſeriberus, on the name of Pope, — Letter to Mr. Theobald in Verſe, ſign'd B. M. againſt Mr. P — Many other little Epigrams about this time in the ſame papers, [by ꝓames More and others.] : „ 5 Miſt's Journal, une 22. A Letter by Lewis Theobald. N 1 | Flying-poſt, Auguſt 8. Letter on Pope and Sqwwift. Daily Journal, Auguſt 8 Letter charging the Author of the Dunciad with Treaſon. Durgen, A plain Satyr on a pompous Satyrift. [By Edi. Ward, with a little of mes Mpore.] | : Labeo, Ia Paper of Verſes written by Leonard Welſted.) f Gulliveriana Secunda, Being a collection of many of the | ' Libels in the News papers, like- the former Volume un- der the fame title, by Smedley. Advertiſed: in the Craftſ- * any thing which any body ſhould ſend as Mr. Pope's or % Pr. Swift's, ſhou'd be inſerted and publiſhed a | = Theirs. 5 * | „ \ | 4 5 * N L 25 OF. «[CaxToN's PREFACE ////%%% O | TRANSLATION $4 R 6 achieued, hauyng noo werke in hande I ſittyng 5 FT ER dyuerſe Werkes, made tranſlated and | £ in my ſtudye where as laye many dyuerſe paun- | flettes and bookys. happened that to my hande cam a Iytlyl booke in frenſhe. which late was tranſlated oute of latyn by ſome noble clerke of fraunce whiche booke therein, Howe after the generall deſtruccyon of the P * «+ r r ä é vwDnæ ap > is named Eneydos (made in latyn by that noble poete & | grete clerke Vyrgyle) whiche booke I ſawe over and redde grete | " A 1 1 * . 2 Fa 421 13 c : % =I - ” 1 i vo 1 I'S» 1 XY 4 ++ 3z.Y 1 wy 7 1 * „ + 1 9 s - 4 . 9 1 8 * Hi , .. 554 > _ 178 F £58 *8 == . 17 f * * * 1 _ = 15 3 13 1 Sz "7 « 3 % - 1 _— 1 1 ef 14 4 = 4 . = Sw 2 8 - 1 '3 "EY 7 _ = = _— 7 * = 0 4 2 a3 : - * N J 4 * 1 1 br — A 5 ' = KD Jo, * a = - _ Fa . = * 2 _— o ? WL * 5 bs iB \ 4J : > a= = . i 8 & 5. : £5 3 1 1 + 1 4 * : z® "2d a * * + 1 3 * r We ob ts Bragg oh 7 pr Arey oy On > CABOT). ao var ets 3 aa W - 2 3 r "We 1 n n 7 »³«³ ER IRENE AE IG. 46 F ee Oe Gee EE EE. Ts ae, OLGA ATE- DID IT 8 8 Wn of 2 E —_ — ——— — —— e — Z : APPENDIX 0 170 his wyfe wyth moche other dle followynge, and how me ſhipped und departed yen alle heyftory> of his ad- uentures that he had er he cam to the atchieument of his conqueſt of. ytalye as all alonge ſhall be ſhewed in this __ booke. In whiche * I had grete playſyr, . by cauſe of the fayr.and honeſt termes & wordes in frenſhe -Whyche I neuer ſawe to fore lyke. ne none ſo playſaunt ne ſo wel. ordred. whiche booke as me ſemed ſholde be yerys paſſed was the ſayd booke of Eneydos wyth other : workes made and lerned dayly in ſcolis ſpecyally in ytahe and other places, whiche hiſtorye the ſayd Vyrgyle made in metre, And whan I had aduyſed me in this ſayd lyſhe. And farthwyth toke a penne and ynke and wrote And whan I ſawe the fayr & ſtraunge termes therein, I doubted that it ſholde not pleaſe ſome gentylmen whiche late blamed me ſayeng that in my e ee had ouer curyous termes whiche coude not be vnderſtande of comyn peple, and deſired me to vſe olde and homely termes in my tranflacyons. and fayn wolde I ſatysfye therein, and certaynly the englyſhe was ſo rude and brood that I coude not wele vnderftande it. And allo my lorde Abbot of Heſtmynſter ded do ſhewe to me late certayn enydences wryton in olde englyſhe for to reduce it in to eur englyſhe now vſid, And certaynly it was wryton in ſuche wyſe that it was more lyke to dutche derſtonden, And certaynly our langage now vſed varyeth ferre from that whiche was vſed and ſpoken whan I was borne, For we englyſhe men, ben borne vnder the do- euer wauerynge, 1 one ſeaſon, and waneth & dy ſcreaſeth another ſeaſon, And that comyn englyſhe that is ſpoken in one ſhyre varyeth from another. In ſo moche grete Troye, Eneas departed berynge his olde fader ay. | chi ſes upon his ſholdres, his lytyl ſon yolas on his hande. moche requyſyte to noble men to ſee.as wel for the elo- quence as the hiftoryes. How wel that many hondred & ys K km a $3646 > mat & wn & wo . booke. I delybered and concluded to tranſlate it in to eng- à leef or tweyne, whyche I ouerſawe agayn to corecte it, euery man, and ſo to doo toke an olde boke and redde than 3 I.coude not reduce ne brynge it to be vn- mynacyon of the mone. whiche is neuer ftedfaſte, but — ws PR oO oy rag wy «chants were in a that ſhe vnderſtod hym wel, Loo what ſholde a man in thyſe dayes now wryte. egges or eyren, certaynly it is "6 wag layſe every man, by cauſe of dy acetic & change of langage. For in theſe dayes euery man that s in ony reputacyon in his contre. wyll vtter his comy- nycacyon and maters in ſuche miners & termes, that fewe men ſhall vnderſtonde theym, And ſome honeſt and grete clerkes haue ben wyth me and defired me to wryte the moſte curyous termes that I coude fynde, And thus | bytwene playn rude, & curyous I ſtande abaſhed. but in my Judgemente, the comyn termes that be dayli vſed ben lyghter to be vnderſtonde than the olde and ancyent englyſnhe, And for as moche as this preſent booke is not por n rude vplondyſbe man to laboure therein, ne rede it, but onely for a clerke & a noble gentylman that | feleth and vaderſtondeth in faytes of armes in loue & in noble chyualrye, Therefore in a meane betwene bothe 1 baue reduced & tranſlated this fayd booke in to our 'englyſhe not 'ouer rude ne curyous but in ſuche termes as ſhall be vnderſtanden by goddys grace accordynge to my copye. And yf ony man wyll enter mete in redy of hit and fyndeth ſuche termas that he can not vnder- ſtande late hym goo rede and lerne 7yrgyll, or the pyſtles of Oxyde, and ther he ſhall ſee and vnderſtonde lyghtly all, Yf he haue a good redar & enformer, For this booke is not for euery rude and vnconnynge man to ſee, but to clerkys & very gentylmen that underſtande gen- | 'tyInes and ſcience. Thenne I praye alle theym that mall rede in this lytyl A to holde me for excuſed ; +> 2 | for APPENDIX 171 ' *noche that in my dayes happened that certayn mar- * hip — * e for to haue * ee | the ſec into Zelande, and for lacke of -wynde thei tary- | ed atte forlond. and wente to lande for to refreſhe them. And one of theym named Sheffelde*a mercer cam in to an hows and axed for mete. and 'ſpecyally he -axyd after eggys, And the goode wyf ariſwerde. that ſhe -evude ſpeke no frenſhe, And the merchant was angry. for he | alſo coude ſpeke no frenſhe. but wolde haue hadde egges, and ſhe vnderſtode hym not, And thenne at laſte another ſayd that he wolde haue eyren, then the good wyf ſayd 1 — — en > es. n 4 = 5 NT oY r — n a * 2 . — — — l 1 — — IE — 3 b ———— 9 * 4 —— — wy —_ — #* n 2 . ln 8 1 . 8 Nell ALE _— r e ANT And 2 * A P 9 9 - e E % of T7" 2 r — 8 . . 2 was G r we "I my d : c N * = * * ” AT Wh 8 — * D, SIT. OY 4x 8 — _ > . * ur 14 Ln vs eren oF) 1 * 8. * oY 5 A 2 dv 3a CE * = _ * 2 —— IO p P if v K — 2 A rere a - - — " . 7 ok R boy ok * 3388 1A enn I yd. > en 3 77 * * AN r r * On D W . 5 e > N — 5 PPP 23 Td PLE y BSI _ Tn e ee ee eee n . . B * W as Fr „, # N eee enn nnn — = 2 4 e * - = N . 12 * 1 2 ' 2 T 4 wo SES DC EY 71 Rr e K. art —— — — mu * r oy 8 — io Fi . eg CEE TIE IE) by i * - a up ry : | 2 - 9 e N wy PID,» pon — 8 * 2 5 * >| Ms 2 = 5 0 wy 2 _— by = wo! 20% * 2 M7 ” * 1 per 8 2 we 8 4 LICE va 3 F nd 4 bot * ents "7 W tt ond * ———_— *** * — 1 Fo VI 8 3 r — — — - & — . 77 4 _ > 1 2 4 2 -— s Sl þ HA we —— OSS "a n 99 LANG Ns 172 APPENDIX. for the tranſlatynge of hit. For I knowleche my ſelfe ignorant of connynge to enpryſe on me ſo hie and no- ble a werke, But I praye Mayſter hn Skelton late created oete laureate in the vnyuerſite of Oxenforde to ouerſeę and correcte this ſayd booke. And t' addreſſe and ex. powne where as ſhall be founde faulte to theym that ſhall requyre it. For hym I knowe for ſuffycyent to expowne and englyſhe euery dyffycylte that is therein, For he hath late tranſlated the epyſtlys of Tulle, and the boke of Dyodorus Syculus. and diverſe others werkes out of latyn in to englyſhe not in rude and olde langage. but in po- Hyſßted and ornate termes craftely, as he that hath redde Fyreyle, Ouyde, Tulle, and all the other noble poetes and oratouts, to me unknown: And allo he hath redde the ix muſes and vnderſtande theyr muſicalle ſcyences. and to whom of theym eche ſcyence is appropred. I ſup- poſe he hath dronken of Elycons well. Then I praye ** & ſuche other to correcte adde or mynysſhe where as he or they fall fynde faulte, For I haue but folowed my copye in frenſhe as nyghe as me is poſſyble, And yf ony worde be ſayd therein well, Jam glad. and yf o- -therwyſe I ſubmytte my ſayd boke to theyr correctyon, Which boke I preſente vnto the hye born my foco- mynge naturall & ſouerayn lord Arthur by the grace of Cod . of Walys, Duke of Cornewayll. & Erle of Cheſter firſt bygotten Son and heyer vnto our moſt dradde - naturall & ſouerayn lorde & moſt cryſten kynge, Henry the vij. by the grace of God kynge of Englonde and of Fraunce & lord of Irelonde, by ſeeching his noble grace to receyve it in thanke of me his moſte humble ſubget & ſeruant, And I ſhall praye vnto almyghty God for his proſperous encreaſyng in vertue, wyſedom, and humanyte that he may be egal wyth the moſt renomed of alle his noble progenytors. And ſo to lyue in this preſent lyf, that af. ter this tranſitory lyfe he and we alle may come to ever- laſtynge lyf in heuen, Amen: Is $1 x * * ; * ; . * o . r at. as. 7 APPENDIX. 173 - and out of Frenſbe reduced in to Engheſe by me Mlim. Carton, the xxij daye of Fuyn. the yere of our lorde. Henry the ſeuenth. „ = | a At the end of the book. 2 Here fynysſheth the boke of Eneydut, compyled by Vyrgyl, whiche hathe be tranſlated out of latyne in to frenſße, rr — — — 3 —— . — i IX.» aa e 2. ' D N : * 1 2 n BESS. WL es. r 2 n o — — M. iiij O Ixxxx. The fythe yere of the Regne of kyng. - «I 1 > — 1 n * . 9 py rr — r / * = - I 7 1 Fs 4 ; w . 7 % / - — eee ” ail 2 * 8 97 ot FI Ws SPA a 1 . * k 9 N 5 5 4 , ” r a '& NY yy 3 , SN Wy r f YN R Virgilius- 3 1 = \ = _ \ =_ 8 5 — — — 1 —_ 7 " f 1 = * N — : ue , * p . n K a . * 1 * 9 e A , : : 2 ? * Ur 99 — . * SN ret n $+ of . 1 1 *. — — 2 - . "ay « I *. * wt 7 . Cas * Fa. „ oo — .* * Y * 3 — * — bh Fe N 1 . wy nn Wy we. muy e N > 9 * —— = ERS hs p _- N 3 — 2 « 22 S Nane 3 5 „ n IS : = 4 FIT f hat 2 CE ; l — N r 2 IS 7 n 5 e eee . . ee or * 2 5 —— 12 an nl * Eng er an „ 22 62 2 #4 n I — 1 0 4 0, $4 —— > ” 3 * p 3 2 WN 4 — 3 8 — IT” { a Hen £ ; Den 2 Nee > Vi. 2822 e . * 7 uy i 5 a # — - „ e — N EMA - . 4 \ D 34 E*R*õſmſqgſ 4 2 3 F cs - 3 p- Ly - Fl = , " M 5 * 7 Ae * * > — *> 0 & r R 7 = © Iu 1, ($%tage 2 0 Lg” BY. * . 6/0 Went roar + 1-0 "25> arts ; - : By (174) W. Virgilius Reſtauratus: 8 SEU MARTINI SCRIBLERI Summi Critici CA$TIGATIONUM in ANEIDEM SPECIMEN: Aru totam, Amice Lector, innumera— bilibus pœne mendis ſcaturientem, ad priſti- num ſenſum revocabimus. In ſingulis fere vexſibus ſpuriæ occurrunt lectiones, in om- nibus quos unquam vidi codicibus aut "wat gatis aut incditis, ad opprobrium uſqu Criticorum, in hunc diem exiſtentes. terea adverte oculos, & his paucis 1 At fi que ſint in hiſce caſtigationibus de quibus non ſatis liguet, ſyllabarum quanti- tates, mrorsſwurre noſtra Libro ipſfi Præ- figenda, ut conſulas, moneo. I. SpECINEX LIBRE PRIMT, VERS. I. (a) 20 Virumque chno, Trojæ qui primus ub 074) Italiam, Faro profugus, Lavinaque venit Eitora: multum ille & terris jactatus & alto, Vi ſuperum ----- (a) Arma —— e cano, Troje quĩ primus ab Ari: Italiam, fla! profugus, Lat inaque venit Litora: multum ille & terris vexatus, & alto, Vi ſuprum Ab — — Ab | + Er quiſquis Numen Junonis adoret e: Fidumque vehebat Orontem. Longe melius, quam ut antea, Oronti nunquam datur. a0 quentibus ſtata, quomodo poſſunt natare? 42 PENDIX. 17s IL Vans. 52. G) * + f, — — on, III. Vexs. 86. (e) Qua data porta ruunt -— IV. Voss. 117. () | 2 2 — ® :'Y \ S } 5 + $. j l. YH 1 id F — ĩ —ęk — , n WEN 2 IS U * — * 3 8 __ _ 22 ww”? ay iS wv " * me my Foo es; . V. Vas. 119% (( 4 Excutitur, pronuſque magiſter 1 VI. VERS. 122. (fY Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vaſto Arma virum nom Ft Ab ar, nempe Hercei Jovis, vide lib. 2. vers. $12, 550. Flats, ventorum Roli, ut ſequitur Latina certe littora cum ne- as aderat, Lavina non niſi poſtea ab ipſo nominata, Lib. 12. vers. 183 — Jadtatus, terris non convenit. (H) Et quiſquis Nomen Junonis adoret? mn | Et Procul dubio fic Virgilius, | (e Venti velut aggere fra Qua data porta ruunt —— Sic corrige, meo periculo. (d) Fortemque vehebat Orontem: | „ Non ſidum, quia Epitheton Achata notiſſinum . Excutitur: pronuſque magis ter | | 1 Volvitur in caput —— „5 | is Aio Virgilium aliter non ſeripſiſſe, quod plave confirtnatur ex ſe | Aft illum ter fluctus ibidem Torquet =—_ (f) Armi bominam : Ridicule antea Arma virum que ex ferro con? + * . t x | ; ; * * * 3 a 4 '® $1 5 54 33 IF 5 18 9 *P 15 0 ++ „ 1 * 4 1 4 88 4: +28] F. 47 2:8 1 heb] F<] y q N. F | 4 . "I »# _ — 7 4-34 S&T - wht, 2» = . 1 * J 3 87 _ * 8 3 5 45 3 $a 2 R Fl 5 * $t < $1 \ * 14 * 4 Ta 1 PF 5 BUY * * FRB TY _—_—— 1 In ©. —_ 13 42.8 2:58 S 4 1 n 2 e — r IE - Boats... „ nnn eee F MN ** * Fra of — on * 7 n 5 ö n A 1 „ IND % APPENDI X. VII. VERS. 151. (g) Atque rotis ſummas leviter perlabitur andas. VIII. Vers. 154. (V) Jamque faces & ſaxa volant, faror arma uta IR. Vers. 170. (:) - Fronte ſub adverſa ſeopulis pendentibus antrum, | Intus aquæ dulces, vivoque ſedilia ſaxo. by Vers. 188. 0 — Tres littore cervor Proſpicit errantes: hos rora — ſequuntur A tergo ---o- XI. VERS. 748. Arcturum pluviaſ queHyades, geminoſqueThiones; ; Error graviſſimus. Corrige,-—ſc epremque Tri rioner. at) * rot is ſpumas jevicer perlabirur udas. Summas, & leviter bere, pleonaſmus eſt: Mirifice alter lectio Neptuni agilitatem & — — exprimit; ſimili modo Noſter de Camilla, Kn. 11. intactæ ſegetis per ſumma volaret, &c. hyperbolice. (b) Jamque feces & ſaxa volant, fu iuntque Miniſtri: Uti ſolent, i in- ſtanti periculo. Faces, ſacibus onge præſtant, quid enim nil | feces jactarent vulgus ſordidum? (i) Fronte ſub adverſa populis prandentibus antrum. Sic malim, longe porius quom ſeopulis pendentibus: Nuge ! Nonne vi- des verſu ſequenti dwlces aquas ad porandum & ſedilia ad diſcubitum dar i? in quorum uſum ? prandentium. Tres litore cor vo: Aſpicit errantes: hos agmina tota ſe uuptur | | | A tergo— Cervi, lectio vulgara, abſurditas notiflima : hæc enimalis in Africa non inveniri, quis neſcit? At motus & ambulandi ritus Corvorum, quis non agnovit hoc loco? Litore, locus ubi errant Corvi, uti noſter alibi, | Er ſold ſecum ſicca ſpaciatur arena. Omen præclariſſimum, immo et agminibys Militym fr obſer: Yatum, ur paret Ex Hiſoricig 4. | Myirym 5 — A wes hoy we 22 4 3 wa, $5 @' 41 3 c « iS — — — — c aMenelao, Ajacs aliiſque ducibus, merito XII. Vers. 631.. 0 Quare agite O juvenes, reftis ſuccedite noſtris. LIBER SECUNDUS Vexs. I. (a) FOntienere omnes, intentique ora tenebant, Inde toro Pater Eneas tic orſus ab alto: | Vers. 3. (bY Ifandum Regina jubes renovare dolorem. VERS, 4. (e) Trojanas ut oper, & lamentabile regnums - 0 Quare agĩte O uvenes, tei ſuccedĩte noſtrĩs. Lets potius dicebat Dido, polita magis oratione, & qua unici Voce er Torum & Menſam exprimebat: Hanc lectionem probe confirmar appellatio O Juvenes! Duplicem hunc ſenſum alibi etiam Maro le- pide innuit, Kn. 4. verſ. 19. Huic uni forſan potui ſuccumbere eulps: Anna! fatebor enim : | 7 Corrige, Huic uni (Viro (cil.] potui ſuccumbere ; Culpas Anna? fatebor enim, &c. Vox ſaccumbere quam eleganter ambigua i L FB. II. VERS. I. Or. (a) Coneubuere omnes, intenteque ora tenebanr; Inde toro ſatis: Eneas fic orſus ab alto. Concubuere, quia toro Fneam vidimus accumbentem : quin & altera ratio, ſcil. Conticuere & ora t enebant, tautologice' dictum. In Ma- nuſcripto perquam rar iſſimo in Patris Muſzo, legitur ere gemebant, magis ingenioſe quam vere. Satur Fneas, quippe qui jam- jam . prandio ſurrexit: Pater nihil ad rem attinet. EE E (%) Infqutum regina jubes renovere dolorem, Sic haud dubito veter- timis codicibus fcriptum fuiſſe: hoc ſatis conſtat ex perantiqua illa Britannorum Cantilena vocata Chevy Chace, cujus autor hunc locum i aſcivit in hæc verba, . | 5 | The Child may rue that uw unborn. ]. | , (c) Trojanas ut Oves &lamentabile regnum Diruerin : Mallem. | ves pluſquam opes, quoniam in antiquiſſimis illis temporibus oves & armenta divitiz regum fuere. vel fortaſſe Ovis Paridis innuit, quas-. ſuper Idam nuperrime paſcebar, & jam in vindictam pro Helene raptu, * ED — —— Ro ESSE et APPENDIX. ryy — T 22 D Dr ne”. —— — = 2 - 5 We ans th. ä ' ** a — AF . e r 1 ms TO EI Is NC — en 82 + * bo ot Roth "4 cies o ERA * i numme * = a" ! . * R E 2 nnn 22 3 * ' * 4 : 0 n 3 — = _ _ — es as 2 * pe . 5 ĩ —— . e re ; n > _ x * 7 = 5 , * — — ; PI K * e e N 5 e 5 q 4 . 8 3 x A . _ c 4 p 4 44 7 Ras — n 4 Iu Wh Ng 8 75 4 3 APPENDIX 2 Taxs £ (0. - Erueriut Danai, Quæque ipſe maſerrima vidi Et quorum pars magna fui. Vers. 7. (e), ------ Quis-talia fando Temperet à lacrymis? Vers. 9. UF Et jam nox Þumida celo : Præcipitat, ſuadentque cadentia ſydera ſomnos. Sed fi tantus amor caſus cognoſcere noſtras, (g). Et breviter Trojæ ſupremum audire laborem, Quanquam animus meminiffe horret, Iuctuque re. Incipiam. Linger, (V Et quorum pars magna fui··— 0 i audit ã quam viſa rea diſtinctione N hie nei it, Vir probus Omnia tam 5 Multa — nox ea fatalis ſola conſcia pius tanquam vi 1 2 referre non potuit. (e) nis talia flendo, Temperet in Lachrymis? — Major enim doloris indicatio, abſque modo lachrymare, quam folummodo à lachrymis non temporare? Et jam nox lumina cœlo Præcipitat, ſuadentque latentia ſydera ſomnos. Lectio, humida, veſpertinum rorem ſolum innuere videtur: mag is mi arridet Lumina, que latentia poſtquam pracipitantur, Auroræ adven- tum annunciant. > | | Oh (g). Sed ſi tantus amor cura: cognoſcere voctis, Et brevi ter Trojæ, ſuper audire labores, . ny | Cure Noctis (ſcilicet Noctis Excidii Trojani) magis compendioſe | (vel ut dixit ipſe bre uiter) totam belli cataſtrophen denotat, quam diffufa illa & indeterminata lectio, caſss noſtras Ter audire gratum eſſe Didoni, pater ex libro quarto, ubi dicitur, Iliaceſque iterum de- mens audire labores Expeſcit: Ter enim pro ſape uſurpatur. Troje, ſuper- mane labores, recte, quia non tantum homines ſed & Dii ſeſe his la- borrbus immiſcuerunt, Vide Zn. 2. verſ. 610, &c. 1 () Quamquam animus meminiſſe horret, ludtuſque reſurgit. Reſur- git mul to proprius dolorem, renaſcentem notar, quam ut hactenus, refuzit. . E P « 5 Y « W Rr. nm, wn | = APPENDIX. 179 7 Vens. 13, 6) 4 FPracti bello, fatiſque 2 Ductores Danaim, tot jam labentibus annis, Inſtar montis Equum, divina Palladis arte, Edificant C. e (i) Traci bello, fatiſque repulſ. 1 | Tratti & Repulſi, Antitheſis perpulchra ! | Fracti frigide & vulgariter. | „ 385 quam jam Trejanum, (ut vulgus loquitur) adeamus; quem s 1 1 — Græcam vocabis Lector, minime pecces: Solæ — — . 1 utero geſtiunt. Uterumque armato milite complent Urteroque I recuſo Inſonuere cava ——— Atque utero ſonitum quater arma dedere.— I . Incluſos utero Danaos, &c. Vox fteta non convenit maribus. —— 8 2). | Seandit fatalis machina muros, Foeta armis — Palladem virginem, þ ; E quo mari fabricando invigilare decuifſe quis putat? Incredibile - prorſus! Quamobrem exiſtimo veram Equæ lectionem paſhm reſtiru- yo. endam, niſi ubi forte metri cauſſa, 1 potius Faun, Ge- a nus pro Sex#, dixit Maro. Vale! dum has paue orriges, majus ( ; opus moveo. 1 | oY, | 5 „ . 5 — * - „ 1 f 8 5 Y | w ' Bun a * ; os We n JI . 2 * o « < _ a „ 2 *. +3 4 " $64 4 * ” K ” - r ͤͤTu ¶⅛ ͥbß̃7—ũ1tñ ⁵ ntiogpighe,: oo oo tom og A Ont De Ws, 2 * N * .. 4 4 NN x 1 os 2 * babe A 93 . L _ A ah ewe FI RN 1 " 3 3's x a _— Oe 9 A ts, oa. AB * n 4 * 2 4%t:. wie Its > he ad * "= FE 2 SSS CONTINUATION OF THE GUARDIAN: ON THE SusJecr of PAS TORALS. Ex illo Cory greges Cory don & Thyrſes in unum. Corydon eſt tempore nobis. ang © pr 6g Monday, April 27, 1713. | „ Deſigned to have troubled the Reader with no far- ther Diſcourſes of Paſftorals, but being informed that I am taxed of Partiality in not mentioning an Author whoſe Eclogues are publiſhed in the ſame Volume with Mr. Pb:lips's; I ſhall employ this 7 without apprehenſion of offending that Gentleman, whoſe eharatterit is that he takes the greateſt care of his —.— | 155 ED before 8 aper in Obſerva- tions upon him, written in the free Spirit of Criticiſm, and 1 4 8 A | Gs) Cee Rapin de Came Paſt, Pert, 3. APPENDIX. 18. before they are publiſhed, and has the leaſt concern for ie : 2. I have laid it down as the firſt rule of Paſtoral, that its Idea ſhould be taken from rhe manners of the Golden Age, and the Moral form'd upon the repreſentation of In- nocence ; tis therefore plain that any Deviations from that deſign degrade a Poem from being true Paſtoral. In this view it will ap pear that Virgil can only have two of his Eclogues allowed to be fuch: His firſt and ninth muſt be rejected, becauſe they deſcribe the ravages of Armies, and oppreſſions of the Innocent; Corydon's criminal Paſſion for Alexis chrows out the ſecond ; the calumny and railing in the third are not proper to that ftaze of Concord; the eighth repreſents unlawful ways of proc Love by Inchantments, and introduces a Shepherd whom an in- viting Precipice tempts to Self-Murder. As to the fourth, | ſixth, and tenth, they are given up by 4a) Heinſius, Sal- maſius, Rapin, and the Criticks in general. They likewiſe obſerve that eleven of all the 1dyllia of Theocritus are to be admitted as Paſtorals ; and even out of that number the greater part will be excluded for one or other of the Rea- ſons abovementioned. So that when I remark'd in a for- mer paper, that Virgil's Eclogues taken all together are rather ſele& Poems than Paſtorals ; I might have ſaid the ſame thing with no leſs truth of Theocritus. The reaſon of this I take to be yet unobſerved by the Criticks, vix. They never meant them all for 22 Now it is plain Philins hath done this, and in that Par- ticulay excelled both Theocritus and Virgil. | 3. A Simplicity is the diſtinguiſhing Characteriſtick o Paſtoral, Virgil hath been thought guilty of too courtly a Stile; his Language is beef pure, and he often for- T gets he is among Peaſants. I have frequently wonder'd, that ſince he was ſo converſant in the writings of Ennius, he had not imitated the Ruſticity of the Doric, as well by the help of the old afar omar Language, as Philips hath by the antiquated Engliſþ : For example, might he nof 182 APPENDIX. _ not have faid uot inſtead of cui; quoijum for cujum; | ? : volt for wnlt, &c. as well as our Modern hath Weaday I ® 3 for Alas, whilome for of old, make mock for deride, and 4 _ "evitleſs Tounglings for ſimple Lambs, &c. by which means 4 8 he had attained as much of the Air-of Theocritus, as Phi- 1 is hath of Spencer ? | _— | 4. Mr. Pope hath fallen into the ſame error 03th Virgil, u His Clowns do not converſe in all the Simplicity proper ts | the Country: His names are borrow'd from Theocritus and b Virgil, which are improper to the Scene of his Paſtorals, He introduces Daphnis, Alexis and Thyrſis on Britiſh Plains, IU © as Virgil had done before him on the Mantuan: Wheres i * Philips, who hath the ſtricteſt regard to Propriety, makes choice of names peculiar to the Country, and more agree- h able to a Reader of Delicacy; ſuch as Hobbinol, Lobbin, ?' Cuddy, and Colin Clont. 1 CO 5. So eaſie as paftoral Writing may ſeem, (in the Sin- H Plicity we have deſcribed it) yet it requires great Reading, ; both of the Ancients and :Moderns, to be a maſter of it. Philips hath given us manifeſt proofs of his Knowledoe of Books: It muſt be confeſſed his competitor hath imitated ſome ſingle thoughts of the Ancients well enough, (if we 1 . TCTonſider he had not the happineſs of an Univerſity Edu- cation) but he hath diſperſed them, here and there with- out that order and method which Mr. Philips obſerves, "whoſe ewhole third Paſtoral is an inſtance how well he hath ſtudied the fifth of Virgil, and how judiciouſly e- eluced Virgil's thoughts to the ſtandard of Paſtoral ; as his LE eontention of Colin Clout and the Nightingale ſhows with what exactneſs he hath imitated every line in Strada, 6. When I remarked it as a principal fault, to intro- St. duce Fruits and Flowers of a Foreign growth, in deſcriptions | where the Scene lies in our own Country, I did not deſign that obſervation ſhould extend alſo to Animals, or the FJenſitive Life; for Philips hath with great judgment de- ſcribed Wolves in England in his firſt Paſtoral, Nor would . T have a Poet ſlaviſhly confine himſelf (as Mr. Pope hath | done) to one 3 ſeaſon of the Year, one certain time of the day, and one unbroken Scene in each Eclogue. Tis plain Spencer neglected this Pedantry, who in his > 4 7 4 ' Wha rue MEE AP = * We? , J "TY 3 e ares 9 a. 8 r 25 * — — 2. Paſtoral APPENDIX. 183 5 3 of November mentions the mournful ſong of ns | Nightingale: 3 Sad Phil omel her ſong in Tears doth þ pep And Mr. Philips, by a poetical Creation, hath raiſed up finer beds of i; th than the moſt induſtrious Gardi- ner; his Roſes, Endives, Lillies, Kingcups and Daſtadils blow a in the ſame ſeaſon. 7. But the better to diſcover the merits of our. two .conte apy Paſtoral Writers, I ſhall endeavour to draw el of them, by ſetting ſeveral of their particular a Paral thoughts in the ſame light, whereby it will be obvious how much atroda hath the advantage. With what Sim- | plicity he introduces two Shepherds ſinging alrernatly 2 Hobb. Come, Roſalind, O come, for eithous thee | What Pleaſure can the Country have for me: Come, Roſalind, O come; my brinded Kine, My ſnowy Sheep, my Farm, and at, is thine. Eanq. Come, Roſalind, O come; here ſhady Bowers Here are cool Fountains, and bere ſpringing Flo vt. Come, Roſalind ; Here ever let us flay, And ſweetly aſt our live long time away. Our Paſtoral Writer, in expreſſing the ſame . deviates into downright Poetry. Steph, In Spring the Fields, in Autumn Hills I love, At Morn the Plains, at Noon the fpady Grove, But Delia always ; forc'd from-Delia's fight, Nor Plains at Morn, nor Groves at Noon delight. Daph. Sylvia's like Autumn ripe, yet mild as May, More bright than Noon, yet freſh as early Day; Ev'n Spring diſpleaſes, when foe ſvines not here, But bleſt with ber, tis Spring throughout the Tear. APPENDIX In the firſt of theſe Woes, two Shepherds "LIP ines _ deſcribe the n of their Miſtreſſes. | 184 Hobb. As Marian hard, by chance I paſſed by, She bluſ'd, and at me caſt a ſide-long Eye: Then ſwift beneath the cryſtal Wave ſbe try'd Her beauteous Form, but all in vain, to hide. Lanq. As Ito cool me bath'd one ſultry day, Fond Lydia lurking in the Sedees Tay. The wanton laugh d, and ſeem d in haſte to fly; Tet often flopp'd, and often turn'd ber Eye. The other Modern (who it muſt be confeſled hath 2 knack of verſifying) hath it as follows. | | Stre ph. Me gentle Delia beckons from the Plain, FJ ben, hid in Shades, eludes ber eager Swain; But feigns a Laugh, to ſee me ſearch around, in And by that Laugh the wilting Fair is found. FP | | | DO Ne an Daph. The ſprightly Sylvia trips along the Green, an She runs, but hopes fie does not run unſeen, FF oc While a kind glance at ber Purſuer flyes, How much at variance are ber Feet and _ L There is ; nothing the Writers of this kind of Poetry are fonder of, than deſcriptions of Pakteral Freſents. an Hys thus of 2 * | Of ſeaſon'd Elm ; where ſtuds of Braſs appear, To ſpeak the Giver's name, the month and year. The hook of poliſb d Steel, the handle turn dl, Th And richly by the Graver's Skil adorn'd. Ich "IH 4 3 Ge nemme . 12 are lips 1 5 The other of a Bowl emboſſed with Figures. occur to every one. | Dr Having now ſhown ſome parts, in which theſe two KY Writers may be compared, it is a juſtice I owe to Mr. Philips, to diſcover thoſe in which no man can compare with him. Firſt, That beautiful Ruſticity, of which I APPENDIX. 185 m— Where wanton Toy twines, And ſwelling Cluſters bend the curling Vines) Four Figures riſing from the work appear, The various Seaſons of the rolling year; EO And what is that which binds the radiant Shy, - Where twelve bright Sigus in beauteous order lie. the ſimplicity of the Swain in this place, who forgets the name of the Zodiack, is no ill imitation of Virgil; but how much mere plainly and unaffectedly would Philips have dreſſed this Thought in his Doric? And what that big bt, whith girds the Welkin geen, : Where twelve gay Signs in meet array are ſeen. If the Reader would indulge his curioſity any farther” in the: compariſon of Particulars, he may read the firſt Paſtoral of Philips with the ſecond of his Contempor and the fourth and ſixth of the former with the fourth - and firſt of the latter; where ſeveral parallel places will ſhall only produce- two Inſtances,” out of a hundred not. yet quoted. „ b s o uf day! O day of Woe; quoth be, © And wwoful I, who live the day to ſee!” WE'P , turn of the Words, in this Dirge, (to make uſe of our Author's Expreſſion) are extreamly elegant» © Q. The ſimplicity of Dilton, the melancholly flowing of © the Numbers, the ſolemnity of the Sound, and the eaſie 12 I 5 paar. 4 ON Ro " * # Wb. 1 i fer” of 44D 72 — ** T >” * Rr LS W wt eo ORC 4 8 1 bbs res - "Y 8 A 1 4 oe, OT _ 8 1 e 1 on + Ar 23 is. rn — v 4 M . N Ly, Wa; 14 hs err A 7 *. ones — dee A BR rnd * of —— ne Ry Oe 1 up, das wy 1 "i egg Nee 4 ee Wy . * AY $I 2 1 2 0 9 £7 -* * 1 ——— ns ů ů 1 * * * . . . "TR n N OY R — : r. ˙ mn) ame rmanats; 1254S Lt * 32 R — TR > pars n 4 N * —— Hs — os L BIBLE. I. $a OE, fs - Snag, CPE ACE FO pe IP Sox, 4 "a M —— * —— 8 wa 5 E +. "IE" IS K 7 F n 9 N —— 2 of 8 & — Ad — Wo „ „ Dee — — — * — * — - < ae N e Sow Fi —— I 35 APPENDIX. In another of his Paſtorals, a Sh. FRM 2 Dirge not much inferior to the former, in the following, lines. Ah me the while ! ah me! the Iuckleſs day, Ah luckleſs Lad! the rather might I ſay; Ab filly 1! more ſilly than my Sheep, Which on the flowry Plains I once did keep. ' How he ſtill charms the ear with theſe artful Repetitions of the Epithets; and how ffgnificant is the laſt verſe! 1 defy the moſt common Reader to repeat them, without feeling ſome motions of compaſſion. | | In the nent place I ſhall rank his Broverby, in which I formerly obſerved he excells: For example, A rolling Stone 7s ever bare of Moſs; Aud to their coſt, green years old Proverbs croſs. — He that late lies down, as late will riſe, And Sluggard-like, till noon-day ſnoaring Iyes. Againſt Tl-Luck all cunning Fore-ſight fails; Whether awe ſleep or wake, it nought avails. er fear, from upright Sentence, wrong. Laftty, his elegant Dialect, which alone might prove him the eldeſt born of Spencer, and our only true Arca- dian. I ſhould think it proper for the ſeveral writers of Paſtoral, to confine themſelves to their ſeveral Counties. Spencer ſeems to have been of this opinion: for he hath. laid the ſcene. of one of his Paſtorals in Wales, where with all the Simplicity natural to that part of our Iſland, one Shepherd bids the other, good morrow in an unuſual. and elegant manner. 5 8 Diggon Davy, 1 bid hur Cod. day: Pr. Diggon bur 4s, or 1 miſ-ſay... — SR po fa. AS 4 8 APPENDIX. 187 Diggen anſwers, . iy Hur was hur, while it avas day-light : But now hur is a moſt curetebed qyight, &. But the. moſt beautiful example of this kind that. ever: met with, is in a very valuable Piece, which I chanced* to find among ſome old Manuſcripts, entituled, A Paſta- ral Ballad: which I think, for its nature and ſimplicity, may (notwithſtanding the modeſty. of the Title) be al- lowed a perfect Paſtoral : It is compoſed in the Somer/ets fire Dialect, and the names ſuch as are proper to the Country People. It may be obſerved, as a further beau ty of this Paſtoral, the words Nymph, Dryad, Naiad, Fawn, Cupid, or Satyr, are not once mentioned through the whole. I ſhall make no Apology for inſerting: ſome few lines of this excellent Piece. Creily-breaks thus into the ſubject, as ſhe is going a Milkinng Cicily. Rager go vetch tha (b) Kee, or elſe th un | Mi quit be go, be vore c hase half a don. Roger. Thou ſroutdft not a ma tweece, but Ive a be-- To dreate aur Bull to bun tha Parſon s Kee. - It is to be obſerved, that this whole Dialogue is formed upon the Paſſion of Fealonſie ; and his mentioning the Par- fon's Kine naturally revives the Jealouſio of the Shep- herdeſs Cicily, which ſhe expreſſes as follows: Gicily. Ab Rager, Rager, chez ca, zore avraid Men in yond Vield you kiſs'd tha Parſon's Maid: Is this tha Love that once to me you zed, When from tha Wake thou brought'ſt me Gingerbread ® t Roger . Cicily thou charg ſt ne valſe. I Tear to thee, Tha Parſon's Maid is ftill a Maid for me. „„ Er Y That is the Kine or cm. . | Q 2- en 188 APPENDIX. In which Anſwer of his are expreſs d at once that Spirit cf Religion, and that Innocence of the Golden Age, ſo neceſ- - fary to be obſerved by all Writers of Paſtoral At the concluſion of this piece, the Author reconciles the e l and ends the Eclogue the moſt ſimply in the world. „ = * So 45 Rager parted vor to vetch tha Kees And vor ber Bucket in went Cicily. Dam loath to ſhow my fondneſs for Antiquity ſo far as to prefer this ancient Britiß Author to our preſent Enplj Writers. of Paſtoral ; but I cannot avoid making this 5 vious Remark, that Philips hath hit into the ſame Road with this old Feft Country Bard of ours. | Afffeer all that hath been ſaid, I hope none can think it any Injuſtice to. Mr. Pope, that I forbore to mention him as a paſtoral Writer; ſince upon the whole, he is cb the ſame claſs with Moſchus and Bion, whom we have ex- cluded that rank; and of whoſe Eclogues, as well as ſome of Virgils, it may be ſaid, that (according to the deſcription we have given of this ſort of Poetry) they ae by no means Paſtorals, but ſomething beter. leg. the * * * * n K 1 5 F rern eee EIN 9 A 1 _ 4 * . * "in 9 Rr Ore Oy = * wh 8 VI. P Al R A IL E L | OF THE CHARACTERS o F Mx. Dryden and Mr. Pope, As drawn by certain of their Cotemrorarie. Mr. DR T DEN. His 2: e RELIGION, MORALS.. and good Senſe. (a) A true Republican Son of a monarchical Church. (6b) A Republican Atheiſt, (c) Pry- den was from the beginning an aaxompoſaAar@t 5.and 1 doubt not will continue ſo to the latt. (4) M . Dryden is a mere Renegado from Monarchy, Poetry; —_—_— K . 5 — (a) Milbouyn w ph Virgil, 8%, 1698. P, 6. (6b) pag. | L. -( Ar 22, (4) 5g. 8, 98. P. G. ( ). pag 3 le) page In eee «1 1 . | * 1 tus bal © "ry x fo 18 * * *. ut; „„ A; 5 TRY 0 AR. Pope is an open and mortal Enemy to his Com Latter of Mr, E, () Theobald, Letter in MP's Je iy To Fs 4 Al e 4 2 Me Y CF r —ↄO CHARACTERS : | o P . Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pape, „ Mr. F OP B. © His PorLiTiCks, RELIGION, MORALS. . and the Commonavealth of Learning. (a) Some call him a Popiſh his, which is directly inconfiſtent. () Pope as a Papiſt muſt be a Tory and High-flyer. (c) He is both a big and a Tory. (d) He hath made it his cuſtom to cackle ro more than one Party in their own Sentiments. (e) (a) Dennis, Remarks on the Rape of the Lock, pref. p. 12, (0 Dun-- ciad diſſected. (e) Preface to Guliveriana. (d) Denn, and Gild. Cha- ournal, June 22, 1728. In. * 4 5 on _ 22 „ we 4 _—_ 9 | * e 19 AXPPENDIX. In the Poem call'd Ahſalom and Achitophel are notori- ouſly traduced, The KI No, the Qu E EN, the Loa ps and GENTLEMEN, not only their Honourable Perfons expoſed, but the wnoLE NarTron and itSREvpre- SENTATIVES notoriouſly libell'd; It is Scandalum um, yea of MAI ESTV itſelf. (e) . He looks upon God's Goſpel as a foolifs Fable, like the Pope, to whom he is a pitiful Purveyor. (F) His very. | t Chriſtianity may be queſtioned. (g) He ought to capoll J more Severity than other men, as he is moſt unmerciful in F | His own #ions.on others. (5) With as good right as- his: Holineſs, he ſets up fon Poetical Infalibility. (5) 1 Mr. DRYDEN only a Verſifyer. | His whole Libel is all bad matter, beautify'd (which is alt that- can be faid of it) with-good metre. . (K) Mr. Dyyden's Genius did not appear in any thing more than his Verſi fication, and whether he is to be ennobled for that only, is a queſtion? ()) CL » | Mr: DRYDE NS Vizer. Tonſon calls it Dryden's Virgil, to ſhow that this is not” r that Virgil ſo admired in the Auguſtzan age, but a Virgil | 5. of another ſtamp, a ſy, imperbinent, nonſenſical Writer. ale (n) None but a Bavius, a Mæbius, or a Bath yllus carp'd at - Firgil, and none but ſuch unthinking Vermin admire his Tranſlator. (») It is true, ſoft and eaſy lines might be- 15 come Ovid's Epiſtles or Art of Love — But Virgil who is Gen all great and. majeftic, &c. requires ſtrength of lines, — weight of words, and cloſeneſs of expreſſions, not an an- fp, Bling Muſe running on a Carpet-ground, and ſhod as light- B ly as a Newmarket racer. — He has numberleſs faults in 35 3 1 3 ; fe) WAip and „ 4%, printed R. 168 . Preface. (f) ibid. ment | . % Bid. +. pe '< o (s) L Ln — — rn, P. 9. 17 | WE) ser, Iii in Criticifes; F. I. (=) dileurn, pag.,.o B vo * APPENDIX. 18g In his Miſce/anies, the Perſons abuſed are, The K M o, | the QUuEzN, His late MAI EST, both Houſes of PARLIAMENT, the Privy-Council, the Bench of BiÞops, the Eſtabliſh'd Cu u x cn, the preſent MIN ISA, Sc. o make ſenſe of ſome paſſages, they muſt be conſtru d into ROYAL SAN DAT. (F) Tz 2 5 He is a Popiß Rhymeſter, bred up with a Contempt of the Sacred Writings. (g) His Religion allows him to deftroy Hereticks, not only with his pen, but with fire and ſword ; and ſuch were all thoſe unhappy Wits whom he ſacrificed | to his accurſed popiſb Principles. () It deſerved Vengeance "3 to ſuggeſt, that Mr. Pope had leſs InfaZibility than his Bf Nameſake at Nome. t) .. © Mr. POPE only a Verſifyer. ” The ſmooth numbers of the Dunciad are al} that recom- * . = » 1 l 44 + * Mal... 55:1 1422 7 1 133 £7 PF 4 1 11. ä 4 < - * 8 ** —— 4 1 ni * 1 . : 1 4 2 7 1 * 1 % 4 1 3 - (5 _- 41 | 4. 5 5 4 4 4 4 SAME l ' 4 1 1 —_— . i i 208 7 f 0 d 1 1 _—_—— 7 tit —— , 2 * is #8 3 3 794 1 4 238 FE . 1 | 3.46 + 4 l FS 4 Tz * 1 1 191 5 1 1 4 is An 93 ZI ; 351, N 1 541 5 ds +: 1 ? 5 \ 4 " 4 4 e %> 4 1 y \ = } 2: wh il 9548 £3 is f 14 4 1 1 14 1 Vet 2547. +: BME 4 1% 4 $813 T3: 4 4 4 4] 1 2% AM 19 "Ek + 4 = 7 * 4 : 1 8 cat. hs 4 — * | mend it, nor has it any other merit. (&) It muſt be own'd 5 that he hath got a notable Knack of rhymeing, and writ- 1 ing ſmooth verſe. (1) — ” Mr. POP E's Homer. © | The Homer which Lintot prints, does not talk like Ho- 1 mer, but like Pope; and he who tranſlated him one wou'd i ſwear had a Hill in Tipperary for his Parnaſſus, and a pud- r dle in ſome Bog for his Hippocrene. (m) He has no Ad- ' mirers among thoſe that can diſtinguiſh, diſcern, and judge. (u) „ N N 4 He hath a knack at ſmooth verſe, but without either * | Genius or good Senſe, or any tolerable knowledge of Eng- ” | 7þ. The qualities which diſtinguiſh Homer are the beau- 5 ties of his Diction and the harmony of bis Verſification —» G But this little Author who is ſo much in vogue, has nei- ug, ar the end of 2 Collection of Verſes, Letters, Advertiſe: 4. A TA Pr inted for 4. Mie, — he * 1 e | 7 ( Denniis Remarks on Homer, p. 27. (%) Preface to Guiliver ana, pg 20 11% Dedicarion ro the Collection of Verſes, Letters ng 9. | | (kh) Miſt's Journal, of June 8, 1728. (I) character of Me P. and Den; . nis on Homer, (m) Dennis's Remarks on Pope's Hamer 13, (n) Ibid. 18s. Þ wg | R | + PAS. 13 33 88 APPENDIX his Exglißb, in ſenſe, in his Author's meaning, and in pro- | Priety of Expreſſion. (o) Mr. DRYDEN underſtood noGreekorLatin, Mr. Dryden was once, I have heard, at Weſtminſter School | Dr. Busby wou'd have evhipt him for ſo childiſh a Para- Phraſe. ) The meaneſt Pedant in England wou'd whiz a Libber of twelve for conſtruing ſo abſurdly. (4) The Tranflator is mad, every line betrays his Stupidity. (r) The faults are innumerable, and convince me that Mr. Dryden did not, or would not #nderftand his Author. (s) This ſhows how fit Mr. D. may be to tranſlate Homer! A miſtake in a fingle letter might fall on the Printer well enough, but EI for *Ixwg muſt be the error of the Authoy : Nor had he art enough to correct it at the Preſs. (:) Mr, Dry. den writes for the Court Ladies — He writes for the Ladies, and not for uſe. (2) 5 — The Tranſlator puts in a little Burleſque now and then into Virgil, for a Ragout to his cheated Subſcribers. (w) Mr. DRY DEN trick d his Subſcribers. I wonder that any man who cou'd not but be conſcious d of his own fitneſs for it, ſhou'd go to amule the learned t world with ſuch an Undertaking ! A man ought to value Je his Reputation more than Money; and not to hope that Y p thoſe who can read fot themſelves, will be Impoſed upon, P, merely by a partially and unſcaſonably-celebrated Name. do (*) Poetis quidlibes audendi ſhall be Mr. Dryden's Motto, tho' it ſhould extend to Picking of Pockets. ) : e - $ — — — — m — n [1 K — p - * — 4 Wb 5 4 5 s - . - (e) Pag. 22, and 192. (p.) Milbourn, pag. 72. (g) Pag. 203. (r) Pap, 78. (Pag. 206. (t) Pag. 19. (u) Ne Aa Pos. 67. (*) 140 urn, ꝑ. 192. (3) Ibid. p. 125, 9 —— lle hath undertaken to tranſlate Homer from the Greek, APPENDIX. ther Senſe in his Thoughts, nor Englifs in his Expreſſẽ ons. (o) Es Mr. Y 0 PE underſtood no Greek. of which he knows not one word, into Englifs, of which he underſtands as little. (p) I wonder how this Gentle- man wou'd look ſhould it be diſcoyer'd, that he has not tranſlated ten verſes together in any book of Homer witle ' Juſtice to the Poet, and yet he dares reproach his fellow- writers with not underſtanding Greek. 75 He has ſtuck. ſo little to his Original, as to have his knewwledge in Greek called in queſtion. (r) I ſhauld be glad to know which it is of all Homer's Excellencies, which has ſo delighted the Ladies, and the Gentlemen who judge like Ladies? () But he has a notable talent at Burlæſque; his genius ſlides ſo naturally into jt, that he hath burleſqu'd Homer with- out deſigning it. (t) 125 Mr. P O Y E trick d his Subſcribers. *Tis indeed ſomewhat bold, and almoſt prodigious, for a ſingle man to undertake ſuch a work! Bur tis too late to diſſuade by C—_— the madneſs of your Pro- jet: The Subſcribers expectations have been rais'd, in proportion to what their Pockets have been drain d of. () Pope has been concern'd in Jobbs, and hired out his Name to Bookſellers, (x) e £45 oF 8 a 4 3 4 (o) Character of Mr. P. pag. 17. and Remarks on Homer, p. vr. ) Dennis's Remarks on Homer, p. 12. (9) Daily 122 of April 23, 1728. (r) Supplement to the Profund. Pref, () Olmixon, Eſſay on Criticiſm, p, 66. (t) Dennis's Rewarks, p. 28, (A) Burnet, Homerides, p. 1. &c, (x) Britiſh Journal, Nov, 25. 1727. | © * Names 187 188 APPENDIXZX. Names beſtow d on Mr. DR Yr DE N. An Avz.] A crafty Ape dreſt * in a gaudy Go wn — Whips put into an Apes paw, to fl 9 1 None but 41ß I — will heed him wow and Key, Pr . An As] A Camel will tike ak no more bur- den than is ſufficient for his ſtrength, but there is ano- «ther Beaſt that crouches under all: Mr. D, &c. 25 P. 105. A . OG.) Poet 8 nab indued with Poet Maro's Spi- rrit! an ugly, croaking kind of yermine, which would ſwell to the bu of an Oxe. pag. 11. A Cowanvp.) A Clinias or a Dameatas, or a man of :Mr. Dryden's own Courage. p. 176. A Knav . Mr. Dryden has heard of Paul, the Knave «of PFeſes Chrift : And if I miſtake not, I've read ſome- "where of 1 Servant to his Majeſty. p. 357. A Foot.] Had he not been ſuch a ſelf-conceited Fool— Whip and Key, pref. Some great Poets are * a, Milbourn, p. 34. | "& TH1NG.) So little -a Thing as Mr. * A 28. 35. 8 8. ed Ve vz. A. P. E. and they give you the ſame Idea of an pe, . 1 as his face, Sc. Dennis, Daily Journal, May 11, 1728. from this little Aſs. Dennis's Rem. on Homer, pref. ture that like the Frog in the Fable, ſwells and is angry of Mr. P. pag. 3. APPENDIX. 18% Names beſtow d on Mr. P OD 1 An Ar r.] Let us take the initial letter of his chrif tian name, and the initial and final letters of his ſurname; An Ass.] It is my duty to pull off the Lions skin- A FE 6.] A h «ab. ſhort Gentleman—a little crea- that it is nor allow'd to be as big as an Oxe. Dennis-s Re- marks on the Rape of the Locke, pref. p. 9. | A CowarDp.] A lurking, way-laying Coward. Chas. , = — ; ' * * . * * * * —

7 — — 5 4 r Pry gt ow 2 . 2 — — er Ken * . — * - — — Dr 2 >< — hy pes. — ac — — — — en * — — A _ EEE eee ————— — — — ng ts CIR SING — Carew * * — — — — 4 1 "wy 0 OY 1 2 A KN AVE. He is po God and oO” mark d for want of common honeſty. y. Rid. there Ae: — r (4 ENT eee AFo O1. Great Fools will be chriften'd by the names of great Poets, and Pope will be called Homer. Dennis's Rem. on Homer. p. 37. | A Tun) A Little, 08 Thing thid. * 8. — . bo — IT 1 ae; a» 4 . iGO IS NESS S By - 3 * r — — — by - r Iz "COTE" Od EY» Ys OM A th #5 RA Th — — "oY r 4 , +. 25 rr on. * FI k age 4 N Pets * JR * . . ˙ . re . RR 2 Os Or ET Or NV OE * * 4 fe; ny EG He 5 „ N. — . 4-44 yo. * eee * 222 CC Load " s We . * 5 4 9 4 8 2 N h 2 ä 9 a 8 Ld . K * - * : — a %+ 4 I ES a er e : * * — - bt ba * - < ern p 2 0 3 * 5 32 _ 8 Ge „ * K — *, 2 2 ren — 1 o . — FRF" * 8 . : : Er if mom mn = r N ” FIR , TO r CIR ww. Rk” "For "eu 1 e gh g 5 EN s ot 3 een — * — * . * TDA Ke + 205i ws" 2 — 7. W013 ad x wy a * FT 25 n 9 os PET EAA 2 * * 77 ras . re —ů — eas —— 4+. ST Zack nn — OE OT NL EIS yt — 5 5 r rr —— ——ä—ñUi—w— —u— : 2 9 1 Ss - 8 O F ALL oUuR Py 1 = H © R's Ge NUINE Wor K 8. HE Works of Mr. ALEXANDER Pop E, in am- to and folio. Printed for Facob Tonſon and Pernard | Lintot, in the year 1717. This Edition contains whatſo- ever is his, except theſe few following, which have been written ſince that time. INSCRITIONS to Dr. nts Poems; To the Right Honourable Roß ERT Earl of Ox rORD and Earl * VERSES on Mr. Ap DIS ON's Treatiſe of Medals, firſt * after his death in Mr. Tickel s Edition of his Wor | | On the Honourable Simon Harcourt : on Mrs. Corbett ; and EITarus: on the Honourable Robert Digby : another intended for Mr. Roabe. | The 1 * ©» APPENDIX 197 The WHOLE IL1AD of HomER, with the PRE FACE, and theNoTEs, (except the Extracts from Eu- athius in the four laſt volumes, made by Mr. Broome ; and the Efſzy on the Life and Writings of Homer, which tho' collected by our Author, was put Ns by Dr. n. > TWELVE Booxs of the OD ss Ev, with ſome parts of other Books; and the Diſſertation by way of Poſtſcript at the end. The Preface to Mr. Tonſon* 8 F. of SY HAK E- nan . 5 Mit SCELLANIE 95 by Dr. Stwift « and our Author, Gee. Printed for B. Motte. _ And ſome — and can. F my — _— TL n 8 — — —— re « ESO + eee 2 1 * Doo — — — Wy, — we —— wg cc {AH — — TER 2 — . 0 Ec we ap DIO. —— x — 8 * I L * Ct 2 Ho Ae rate — ¹³ = ———_ . — = ol IDIOA — >> gr ers — Ty — inherent _y 8 — — — > 5 , * 1 4 . 8 PO trees ne 4 7 . — 8 — o RP" FORO e 3 * 1 ij I * 'F 1 18 x . : on 4 1 dt i * 4 * 4 1 1 il * þ 8 * . £ .W; , 5 : oY * 2 * 21 * of 5 5 "4 . 3 1 1 55 3 V oo -H . = a 3 K — 1 rr * 3 RN ge * : r + * 22 ren * r £ . dot 1 N 2 E =—_ on; „ * As wha & 2 42 4 3 + Tod © "9" 4 3 * * * 1 9 " DI ge 9 * 4 * 1 0 K * r — » — . ERS OY LT rt S244 % 3 U to adds 5 bones c 1 1 RY on r _ * 8 erg 1 6 7 2 1 = N . R * ö 0 - N 8 . ne br fro its >. M i ww . FP 1 : 4 2 * * 3 — —_—_— —— — * Lo 4 OO AAAS 7 T H I N es 8 (Includin g AUTHORS) | To be found i in the Norte 8, Be. The firſt Number denotes the Boo k, "the ſecond the VERSE. Tet. Teſtimonies. Ap. 8 a. DDISON (Mr.) written MIO with vehemence, by &. Dennis. Book ii. verſe 273. Railed at by A. Philips. iii. 322. Abuſed by Oldmixon, in his Proſe-Efſay o on Criticſi Sc. ii. 201. by F. Ralph, in a Tondds Journal, iii. 159. == Celebrated by our Author —Upon his Diſcourſe of Medals — In his Prologue to Cato — and in this Poem. 1. 132. | Falſe | HY 1 * * | * — Hy | U rere INDEX. 193 Falſe Fats concerning him and our Author related by anonymous Perſons in Miſt's Journals, Sc. Teſt. Pag- 5, 16, 3 Diſprov'd by the Teſtimonies of he Earl of Burlington, 12. | | —— Mr. Tickel, 10. Ir. Addiſon himſelf, 1bid. and 9g. Anger, one of the CharaGteriſtics of Mr. beni 8 Critical Writings, i. 104.] — Affirmation, another: Teſt. p. 5. [To which are added by Mr. 7 beobald, Ia-nature, Spite, Revenge, i. 104.1 | 5 Altar of ribbal 8 Works, how built, and how founded? * 3-135, Oc. ; Xſchylus, How long he was can him, 1 i. 210. In what reſpect like him, iii. 311. Aſes, at a Citizens gate in a morning, ii. 239. Appearances, that we are never to judge by them, eſpe· cially of Poets and Divines, ii. 395. Alehouſe, The Birth- place of many Poems, i. i. 202. —— And of ſome Poets, ii. 130. ——One kept by Taylor the Water-poet, i. 325. nnd by Edward Ward, i. 200. SW B. AVIUS, Book i iii. ach 16. Mr. Dennis hi great opinion of him, ibid. Bawdry, in Plays, not diſapprov d of by Mr. Dennis, i 174. | BLACKMORE, (Sir Rich) his [mpiety and Irreli- gion, proved by Mr. Dennis, ii. v. 258. His Quantity of Works, and various Opinions of them. _— —-His abuſe of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, ibid. Bray, a word much belov'd by Sir Richard, i ii. 250. BoA FOG li, 243. = Birch, wes | INDEX Birch, by no means proper to be apply d to young No- blemen, jii. 330. BROOME, (Rev. Mr. Will.) His Sentiments of our Au- 5 thor's Virtue, Teſt. p. art. L/ Our Author's of his abilities, iii. . 328. And how he rewarded them, ibid. Billingſgate language, how to be uſed by learned Authors, ii. 134. BOND, BESALEE L, BREVAL, not Living wir ters, but Phantoms, ii. 118, Bookſelters, how they run for a Poet, ii. 27, Sc. f Bailiff, how Poets run from them, i. 57 . c. ee! Virtues of Dulneſs, Book i i. = 45 to 50. Cave Poverty, a Poem of Tibbald, commended by . CAT ON, his Prologue to Virgils Eneidu, App. No. | COOKE, (be.) abuſed Mr. Pope's moral Character, ii. 130. CONCANEN (Matt.) one of the Authors of — Weekly Journals, ii. 130. Oblig d to Pr. — writ — of him, ibid. —Declar” d that when this Poem had Blanks, they meant Treaſon, iii. 299. ft opinion, that Fuvenal never ſatyriz'd the Poverty of Codrus, B. ii. v. 136. Criticks, verbal ones, muſt have two poſtulata allowed them, ii. 2. Catcalls, ii. 225. | CURLL, Edm. His panegyric, ii. 54. — His Corinna, and what ſhe did, 66. His Prayer, 75. [Like Eridanus, 176. —— Much favour d by Cloacina, 93, Oc. curry Mr. Giles Jacob, i. 106. Its extraordinary Concluſion. | Co 2 © El SEL 1-3 Fa . &a& 3: e 111 4.1 1 1 i © 'CURLL purged and vomited, ii. 143. tion: A —o—_ of 'em, ibid. 12 X 195 — — Toft in a Blanket and * ibid. —Pillory'd, ii. 3. Col. chax T RES; His Life now * and by whom, i ii. 385. | 3 D. Dua of Dr. Garth, Book ii. vat 132. Dane de Foe, In what reſembled to Wit. Pens, | i. LOT. DENNIS, (Foim) His Character of himſelf i. 104. Senior ro Mr. Durfey. ii. 275. ——Eſteem'd by our Auer and . ii. 273: His Love of Puns, i. 61. = And Politicks, i. 104. ii. 27% is great Loyalty to King George how prov 4, i. 104 A great Friend to the Stage—and to the State, ii. 383, How he proves that none but Nonjurors and difaffeted _ Perſons writ againſt Stage- plays, ibid. . reſpect to the Bible and Alcoran, ii. ibid. is Excuſe for Obſcenity in Plays, iii. His mortal fear of Mr. Pope, founded on Mr. o- „ aſſurances, i. 104. ——Of Opinion that he poyſon'd Curl, ibid. is Reaſon why Homer was, or was not in deb, ii. II; His Accuſations of Sir R. Blackmore, m—_—_ AS no Proteſtant, ii. 258. As no Poet, ibid. Et —— His wonderful Dedication to &-— Dt, Big i iii. 1 74: Drams, dangerous to a Poet, iii. 13). | Double Falſhood, a Play publiſh'd by Tibbald, tii. 272. ——A famous Verſe of it, ibid. nov plainly prov'd by him to be Shakeſpeare, ibid. hut grievous Errors committed by him in the Edi- Dedicators, 5 196 END E A. Dedicators, iii. 191, G. Durgen, when it may come to be read ? iii. 162. Dunciad, how to be correctly ſpell 'd, i. 1. Ao it came to be written, App. Ne 1. Notes. How N in writing, various Opinions thereof, ibid. 5 Dulneſi, the Goddeſs ; her Original and Parents, i. 9. Her ancient Empire, 14. Her cardinal Virtues, 45, Sc. Her Idzas, Productions, and Creation, 53, &c. Her Survey and Contemplation of her Works, 77, &c. And of her Children, 93. Their uninterrupted Suc- ceſſion, 96, Sc. to 110. What Nations in ſpecial manner favour'd by her, 156. Her Scholiaſts, Com- mentators, Sc. 159 to 172, Her beloved Seat in the City, i. 30. The Criſis of her Empire there at Set- tles death, $8. 185. Her appearance to Tibbald, 217, She manifeſts to him her Works, 227, Sc. Anoints him, 241, Sc. Inſtitutes Games for her Sons, ii. 15, Sec. How euſeful in Buſineſs, i. 147. How beneficent to Man, 151. The manner how ſhe makes a Wit, ii. 4 A great Lover of a Joke, 30. — And loves to repeat the ſame over again, 114. Her ways and means to procure the Pathetick and Terrible in Tragedy, 220, Sec. Incourages Chattering and Bawling, 225, Sc. And is Patroneſs of Party-writing and railing, 265. Makes uſe of the heads of Critieks as Scales to weigh the heavineſs of Authors, 337. Promotes Slumber, _ with the Works of the ſaid Authors, ibid. The 'won- _ deeful Virtue of ſleeping in her Lap, iii. 5, &. Her Elyxium, 15, c. The Souls of her Sons dipt in Lethe, ibid. How brought into the world? 20. Their Transfiguration and Metempſychoſis, 41. The Extent and Glories of her Empire, at large, in Book iii. Her Conqueſts throughout the World, 60 to 100. A Ca- —_ of her preſent Forces in this Nation, to the EUSDEN INDEX 197 EE KE. USDEN (Laurence) i. 102. iii. 319. Tax'd by Oldmiæon with Nonſence, ibid. by Curl with Ebriety, ii. 395. —— Defended from the charge of Libelling; i ii. 261. Ears: Some people advis 'd how to preſerve my iis 212. ALSHOODS, told of our Author in Print.] Of his taking Verſes from Fames Moore, Teſt. p. 12. of his intending to o abuſe _ _ ibid. 1 3. By Fohn Dennis, os his really — Mr. Curl, ii. 104. f bis.contempt for the. ſacred Writings, ii. 258. Buy Edw. Ward, of his being bribed by a Dutcheſs to la- tyrize Ward of Hatkney in the pillory, iii.-26. By M. s Journaliſts, of unfair proceeding in the Ui taking of the Odyſſey and Shakeſpear, Teſt. p. 1 'By:Tho. Cook, of the ſame, ii. 130. By M:ft's -Fournalifts, concerning Mr. Addiſon and him, two or three lies, Teft. p. 9, 10, II. By Paſquin, of his being in a Plot, iii. 146. By Sir Rich, Blackmor-, of his burleſquing Scriprure, uf up- on the authority of Curl, ii. 258. By the Author of the Eſſay on the Dunciad, That no Li- bels, Pamphlets or Papers were writ agninlt him, App. . 1 Mac Fleckno, not ſo decent and. chaſte i in the Diction a8 the Dunciad, ii. 71. Friend/»ip, underſtood by Mr. Dennis to be ſomewhat elſe, in Niſus & Eurgalus, &c. iii. 1 74. Furius, INDEX. Furius, Mr. Dennis call'd fo by Mr. Theobald, i. 1 04 Hleet-Ditch, ii. 260. Its ** 310. * $ Dil. coveries there, 714. G. Ood nature of our Author ; A of it, in this , ; work, i. 41, 258. ii. 285. iii. 146. E Good Senſe, Grammar, and Perſe, deſired to give place, 3 for the ſake of Mr. Edev. Ward and his Works, iii. _ ' GILDON, Charles, abuſed our Author i in 1 things Teſt. p. 2, 16, 20. B. i. v. 250. IL DON and DENNIS, their unhappy Differenc lamented, iii. 167. | Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator, by Nelſted, ii. 293. 'ORACE, cenſured by Mr. Welfted, me.) p. 4. bid not know what he was about when he wrote his Art of Poetry, ibid. Called Placcus by Tibbald, and why ! i. 180. HENLEY (ohn the Orator.) His Tub and Euchariſt, ii. 2. His Hiſtory, iii. 195, His Offer to Sir R. W. and the Hon. Mr. P=—— bid. His opinion of Ordi- nation and Chriſtian Prieſthood, ib. His Medals, ib. [HAYWOOD (Mrs.) What ſort of Game for her? ii, 155. Won by Curl, 182. Her great Reſpect for him, 149. The Offspring of her Brain and Body, (accord- ing to Curl) ibid. Not e by being ſer againſt a Jordan, 159, | Hints, extraordinary ones, ii. 258. | HORNECK and ROOME, two 'Party-Writers ii. 346. JOHNSON Eraſinys, his advice to him, ii. 46. OHNSON (Charles) abuſed Dr. 4, — Mr. Cay an! r. P. in a Prologue, Book i. verſe 240. SR —Perſonally abuſed by Curl and others for his fatneſsy ibid. . | Impudence, celebrated in Mr. Curl, ii. 180. — in Mr. Norton de Foe, ii. 385. ; pn——_—_ Mr. Cibber, iii. 131. — in Mr. Henley, iii. 195. . Ll | 123 Book i: vers. $5. | Library of Tibbald, i. 120. _ King Lud, ii. 334. King Log, i. verſe ult. Bernard Lintot, ii. 42. 4 1 OORE ( ames) His Story of the fix Verles and of ridiculing Bp. Burnet in the Memoirs of a Pa- rith Clerk, proy'd falſe, by the Teſtimonies of —— The Ld. Bolingbroke, Teſt. p. 13. ——Earl of Peterborough, 14. Hugh Bethel, Eſq; 13. br. Arbuthnct, ibid. and ii, 46. br. ung, &c. ii, 46. 108. what he was real Author of (beſide the Story a- reg Vide Liſt of ſcurrilous Papers in the Appen- Ms - N * ae an. — — ue owns ——K—= — er aronormuimoungpumw warned — — . a — 1 1 pg * * . A — wm 5 n. * „ 2 1 5 p 4 5 I = — _ 4 * - - wy 1 T e 33 — » 4 His Plagiariſms, ſome few of them, ibid, and ii. MILBOURNE, ; & _. <— 5 2 « r ARR aa GAs; eee Rm II 2 „ WSN he — — prey bp. my 0 as 0 200 IN D E &. MILBOURNE, a fair Critic, and why? ii 32. | Madvxeſs, of what ſort Mr Dennis's was, according to Pla- to, i. 104. — According to himſelf, iii. 174. May pole in the Strand, turn d into a Church, ii. 24. N. 3 TOR TON DE FOE, a ſcandalous Writer, ii. 385, Wdding, deſcribed, ii, 361. O. 5 FJ LDMIXON (John) abuſed Mr. Addiſon and Mr, Re, i206 = Mr. Euſden and my Lord Chamberlain, iii. $19. - ———— Odyſſey, Falſhoods concerning Mr. ps Pre- poſals for the Work, Teſt. p. 10, | —biſprov'd by the Right Honourable the Lord Bathurſt, 11, [ And by thoſe very Propoſals, ibid. Oevls and Opium, i. 357. . Opiates, two very conſiderable ones, ii. 240. Their Effi- „ „„ Owls, deſired to anſwer Mr Ralph, iii. 160. P. M»” (Mr.) his Life] Educated by Feſurts, by a Par- ſon, by a Monk; at St. Omeys, at Oxford, at home, no _ evhere at all. Teſtimonies, pag. 2. His Father a Mer- chant, a Husbandman, a Farmer, the Devil, ibid. His Death threaten'd by D. Smedley. Teſt p. 17. but after- wards advis'd to hang himſelf or cut his Throat, ibi. To be hunted down like a wild Beaſt, by Mr. Theobald, ibid. 16. unleſs hang'd for Treaſon on Information of Paſquin, Mr. Dennis, Mr. Curl, Concanen, &c. ibid. 17. Poverty, never to be mention'd in Satire, in the opinion of the Journaliſts and Hackney Writers, === The Po- > Pla- r Effi- | a Par- me, No 4 Mer- 53 after- „ ibid. eobald, ion of d. 17. ) inion . Po- verty INDEX a0 verty of codrus, not touch'd upon by Fuvenal, b. it. verſe 136. when, and how * overty may be ſatyri- zed, Letter p. 9, 10. whenever mention d by our Au- chor, it is only as an Extenuation and Excuſe of bad Writers, ii. 172. Perſonal Abuſes not to be endur'd, in the opinion of Mr. Dennis, Theobald, Curl, Ec. ii. 134. Perſonal abuſes on our Author by Mr. Dennis, Gildon, Se. ibid. Teftim. Notes. By Mr. Theobald, Tee. P- 9, To, 16. By Mr. Ralph, iii. 159. By Mr. Welſted, ii. 295. By _ Mr. Ch. Fobnſon, i. 244. By Mr. Cooke, ii. 130. M. Concanen, iii. 299. By Sir Richard Blackmore, ij. 258. By Edward Ward, iii. 26. And his Brethren. paſſim. Perſonal abuſes on others) Mr. Theobald of Mr. Dennis for his Poverty, i. 104. Mr. Dennis of Mr. Theobald for his | Livelihood by the Stage and the Law, i. 106. D. Smedley of Mr. Concanen, ii. 139. Mr. Oldmixon's of Mr. Euſden, iii. 319. Of Mr. Addiſon, ii. 201. Mr. | Coook's of Mr. Euſden, iii. 319. Mr. Curl's of Mr. Fobn- ſon, i. 240. Politicks, very uſeful in Criticiſi „Mr. Dennis's, i. 104. " 203. - Piltory, a poſt of reſpeR, in the opinion of Mr. Curt; w..26, : and Mr. Ward, a -——— Periphraſts of the Pi/ory; ii. 3. Plagiary, deſcribed, ii. 38, &c. 102, Sc. | Plato, in what manner tranſlated by Tibbald, i. 227... Poverty and Poetry, their Cave, i. 30. Prof aneneſs, not to be us d in our Rue, but very allies able in Shakeſpear, i. 48. FPariyeaoriters, their three S ii. 266. Poeteſſes, iii. 141. Pindars and Miltons, of the modern ſort, iii. 2 3 | RAG-FAIR, Search blications 202 XD EN: R. AG-FAIR, i. 27. Roumd- homſe, ii. 394. RALPH (bn) iii. 160. See Samoney. ROOM End HORNEC E, iii. 146. 8. Qualeper admirable for Nature, i ii. 218. To be fell d always with an e at the end, i. 1. A rucify'd once a week by Tibbald, i. 164. proved by him to borrow of Winkin, i. 162. ro have made great TAY puns, and Anacro- -niſm's, ibid. | Eo have had a Baſtard, iti. 272. aid by him to deſerve Whipping, i i. 162. And by Dennis called a Raſcal, ibid. SETTLE (Elkanah) Mr. Dennis's Account of him, i. SS. ili. 16. And Mr. Welſted's, ibid. A Pangea of Pamplets, i. 88. and iii. 281. Once preferred to Mr. Dyyden, i. 88. A wiiter of Farces and Drolls, and employ'd at laſt in Bartholomew-Fair, iii. 281. Sawney, a Poem, the Author's great Ingorance i in Claſſi- cal Learning, i. I. — ]n Rules of Criticiſm, lit. 159, n Languages, ibid. ln Exgliß Grammar, i. 28. ——His Praiſes of himſelf above Mr. Addiſon, ii iii. 1 59. Is own * of his Equality to — ibid. Scholiafts, i. 159. iii. 188. Supterleſs, a miſtake concerning this word ſet right, with reſpect to Mr. 7 ede, and other temperate Students, i. 109, TIBBALD, nacro- Writer red to Drolls, 31. Claſſi 15 9. ſpear, t, with udents, | ALD, " 3 i. 106. INDEX x 1 Bs +IBBALD; why he ki Rt this Polk? 1 according to Sriblerus. Prolegom. p. 25. The. true reaſon, Book i. 102, and iii. 319. Why Succęf- ' ſor to Settle, i. 108. Conceal'd fis Intentions upon Shakeſpear all the time Mr. Pope deſi rd Aſſiſtance and promis d Encouragement toward perfecting an Edition is own Confeſſion of that Proceed- „ in a Daily Fournal, November 26, 1728. - a5 favours of Mr. P. at that time, i. 106. ——— of Miſt's Writers, i. 106, 168. And Author ſecretly and abettor of Scurrilities againſt Mr. P. i. 106. Vide Teſtim. and App. Ne. 2. o he was like Æſcbylus, iii. 511. — Like Shakeſpear, iii. 272. And like Settle, i. 108. Taylors, a good word for them, againf Poets and in Ur- maſters, ii. 111. Thunder, how to make it, by Mr. Denzis's receipt, ii. 220- | v. | 2 Arious Readings on this Poem, vag call d Er rata of the Preſ?, pag. m_ Critics. Two Fe * 80 be granted them, » ii. Firgil, "——_ and amended, i. 1, * 191, 212. and N „ ARD, (Raw. ) a 1 and e in Moorffelds, Book i. verſe 200. | lis high opinion of his Nameſake, — . d his * for the Pillory, iii. 26, By WELSTED 0 td... a. tre — Pon — ag cd. 4 * Panos * . 0 2 r Roe or - \ - — — * be = ” 9 1 4 A A ql 4 4 * « . — FOI 6 — , _Y - rr . — : * FTC UE — . ] ⅛ X.. ˙ . ] . IM, BPEBART Oe ent 9D nt, —— — ; o