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The Metamorphofis of Scriblerus into Snarlerus. By J. Smedley, printed for A. Moore, folio, price 6d. The Dunciad diffected. By Curl and Mrs. Thomas,

12mo.

An Effay on the Tafte and Writings of the prefent Times. Said to be writ by a Gentleman of C. C. C. Oxon, printed for J. Roberts, octavo.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric, partly taken from Bouhours; with new Reflections, etc. By John Old

mixon, octavo.

Remarks on the Dunciad. By Mr. Dennis, dedicated to Theobald, octavo.

A Supplement to the Profound. Anon. By Matthew Concanen, octavo.

Mift's Weekly Journal, June 8. Along letter, figned W. A. Writ by fome or other of the club of Theobald, Dennis, Moore, Concanen, Cooke, who for fome time held conftant weekly meetings for thefe kind of performances.

Daily Journal, June 11. A Letter figned Philo-fcriblerus, on the name of Pope.-Letter to Mr. Theobald in verfe, figned B. M. [Bezaleel Morris] against Mr. P-. Many other little epigrams about this time in the fame papers, by James Moore, and others.

Mift's Journal, June 22. A Letter by Lewis Theobald.

Flying Poft, Auguft 8. Letter on Pope and Swift. Daily Journal, Auguft 8. Letter charging the Author of the Dunciad with Treafon.

Durgen: A plain fatire on a pompous fatirift. By Edward Ward, with a little of James Moore. Apollo's Maggot in his Cups. By E. Ward. Gulliveriana fecunda. Being a Collection of many of the Libels in the News-papers, like the former Volume, under the fame title, by Smedley. Advertised

in the Craftsman, Nov. 9, 1728, with this remarkable promife, that " any thing which any body fhould fend 66 as Mr. Pope's or Dr. Swift's fhould be inferted and "published as theirs."

Pope Alexander's fupremacy and infallibility examined, etc. By George Ducket, and John Dennis, quarto.

Dean Jonathan's Paraphrafe on the ith chapter of Genefis. Writ by E. Roome, folio, 1729.

Labeo. A paper of verses by Leonard Welfted, which after came into One Epistle, and was published by James Moore, quarto, 1730. Another part of it came out in Welfted's own name, under the just title of Dulness and Scandal, folio, 1731.

There have been fince published,

Verfes on the Imitator of Horace. By a Lady [or between a Lady, a Lord, and a Court-Squire]. Printed for J. Roberts, folio.

An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, from Hampton-court [Lord H-y]. Printed for J. Roberts also, folio.

A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope. Printed for W. Lewis in Covent Garden, octavo.

III.

ADVERTISEMENT

To the FIRST EDITION with Notes, in Quarto, 1729.

IT

T will be fufficient to fay of this edition, that the reader has here a much more correct and complete copy of the DUNCIAD, than has hitherto appeared. I cannot answer but fome mistakes may have flipt into it, but a vast number of others will be prevented by the names being now not only fet at length, but justifed by the authorities and reafons given. I make no doubt, the author's own motive to use real rather than *feigned names, was his care to preserve the innocent from any falfe application; whereas in the former editions which had no more than the initial letters, he was made, by keys printed here, to hurt the inoffenfive; and (what was worfe) to abufe his friends, by an impreffion at Dublin.

The commentary which attends this poem was fent me from feveral hands, and confequently must be unequally written; yet will have one advantage over most commentaries, that it is not made upon conjectures, or at a remote diftance of time: and the reader cannot but derive one pleasure from the very Obscurity of the perfons it treats of, that it partakes of the nature of a Secret, which moft people love to be let into, though the men or the things be ever fo inconfiderable or trivial.

Of the Perfons it was judged proper to give fome account for fince it is only in this monument that they muft expect to furvive (and here furvive they will, as long as the English tongue fhall remain fuch as it was

in the reigns of Queen ANNE and King GEORGE), it feemed but humanity to beflow a word or two upon each, juft to tell what he was, what he writ, when he lived, and when he died.

If a word or two more are added upon the chief offenders, 'tis only as a paper pinned upon the breast, to mark the enormities for which they fuffered; left the correction only fhould be remembered, and the crime forgotten.

In fome articles it was thought fufficient, barely to tranfcribe from Jacob, Curl, and other writers of their own rank, who were much better acquainted with them than any of the authors of this comment can pretend to be. Moft of them had drawn each other's characters on certain occafions; but the few here inferted are all that could be faved from the general deftruction of fuch works.

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Of the part of Scriblerus I need fay nothing; his manner is well enough known, and`approved by all but those who are too much concerned to be judges.

The imitations of the Ancients are added, to gratify those who either never read, or may have forgo:ten them; together with fome of the parodies and allufions to the most excellent of the Moderns. If, from the frequency of the former, any man think the poem too much a Cento, our poet will but appear to have done the fame thing in jeft which Boileau did in earnest ; and upon which Vida, Fracaftorius, and many of the moft eminent Latin poets, profeffedly valued themfelves.

IV.

ADVERTISEMENT

To the FIRST EDITION of

The FOURTH Вook of the DUNCIAD, when printed separately in the Year 1742.

WE E apprehend it can be deemed no injury to the author of the three firft books of the Dunciad, that we publish this Fourth. It was found merely by accident, in taking a furvey of the Library of a late eminent nobleman; but in fo blotted a condition, and in fo many detached pieces, as plainly fhewed it to be not only incorrect, but unfinished. That the author of the three first books had a defign to extend and complete his poem in this manner, appears from the differtation prefixed to it, where it is faid, that the defign is more extenfive, and that we may expe& other episodes to complete it: And from the declaration in the argument to the third book, that the accomplishment of the prophefies therein would be the theme hereafter of a greater Dunciad. But whether or no he be the author of this, we declare ourselves ignorant. If he be, we are no more to be blamed for the publication of it, than Tucca and Varius for that of the last fix books of the Æneid, though perhaps inferior to the former.

If any perfon be poffeffed of a more perfect copy of this work, or of any other fragments of it, and will communicate them to the publisher, we shall make the

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