Mift's Weekly Journal, April 27. A Letter of Lewis Theobald.

Daily Journal, May 11. A Letter against Mr. P. at large. Anon. [John Dennis.]

All these were afterwards reprinted in a pamphlet, entituled, A Collection of all the Verfes, Effays, Letters, and Advertisements occafion'd by Mr. Pope and Swift's Mifcellanies, prefaced by Concanen, Anonymous, octavo, and printed for A, Moore, 1728, price 1 s. Others of an elder date, having lain as wafte Paper many years, were, upon the publication of the Dunciad, brought out, and their Authors betrayed by the mercenary Bookfellers (in hopes of fome poffibility of vending a few) by advertifing them in this manner- "The Confederates, a farce. "By Capt. Breval (for which he was put into the Dun"ciad.) An Epilogue to Powel's Puppet-fhow. By Col. "Ducket (for which he was put into the Dunciad.) Ef fays, &c. By Sir Richard Blackmore. (N. B. It wa

for a paffage of this book that Sir Richard was put "into the Dunciad.)". And fo of others.

After the Dunciad, 1728.

An Effay on the Dunciad. Octavo, printed for J. Roberts. [In this book, p. 9. it was formally declared, "That the complaint of the aforefaid Libels and Adver"tifements was forged and untrue; that all mouths had "been filent, except in Mr. Pope's praife; and nothing "against him published, but by Mr. Theobald."]

Sawney, in blank verfe, occafioned by the Dunciad; with a Critique on that poem. By J. Ralph [a perfon never mentioned in it at firit, but inferted after] printed for J. Roberts, octavo.

A complete Key to the Dunciad. By E. Curl, 12mo. price 6 d.

A fecond and third edition of the fame, with additions,

12mo.

The Popiad. By E. Curl, extracted from J. Dennis, Sir Richard Blackmore, &c. 12mo. price 6 d.

The Curliad. By the fame E. Curl.

The Female Dunciad. Collected by the fame Mr. Curl, 12mo. price 6 d. With the Metamorphofis of P. into a ftinging Nettle. By Mr. Foxton, 12mo.

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

I 2mo.

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, &c. By John Oldmixon, octavo.

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

A Supplement to the Profund. Anon. by Matthew Concanen, octavo.

Mift's Weekly Journal, June 8. A long letter, fign'd 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 these kind of perfor

mances.

Daily Journal, June 11. A Letter figned Philofcriblerus, 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 should fend as Mr. Pope's or "Dr. Swift's should be inferted and published as theirs.”

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Pope Alexander's fupremacy and infallibility examined, &c. By George Ducket and John Dennis, quarto. Dean Jonathan's Paraphrafe on the ivth chapter of Genefis. Writ by E. Roome, folio, 1729.

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

There have been fince published,

Verses on the Imitator of Horace. By a Lady [or be tween a Lady, a Lord, and a Court-'Squire.] Printed for J. Roberts, folio.

An Epiftle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, from Hampton-court [Lord Hy.] Printed for J. Roberts alfo, folio.

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

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III.

ADVERTISEMENT

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

'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 appear'd. I cannot answer but some 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 justified by the authorities and reasons given. I make no doubt, the author's own motive to use real rather than feign'd 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 abuse 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 distance of time: And the reader cannot but derive one pleasure from the very Obfcurity of the perfons it treats of, that it partakes of the nature of a Secret, which most people love to be let into, tho' the men or the things be ever fo inconfiderable or trivial.

Of the Perfons it was judg'd 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 feem'd but humanity to beflow a word or two upon each, just to tell what he was, what he writ, when he liv'd, and when he died.

If a word or two more are added upon the chief offenders, 'tis only as a paper pinn'd upon the breaft, to mark the enormities for which they fuffer'd; left the correction only should be remember'd, 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. Most 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 destruction of such works.

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

'The imitations of the Ancients are added, to gratify those who either never read, or may have forgotten them; together with fome of the parodies and allufions to the

moft 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 earneft; and upon which Vida Fracaftorius, and many of the most eminent Latin poets, profeffedly valued themselves.

IV.

ADVERTISEMENT

To the FIRST EDITION of

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

W

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 so many detach'd pieces, as plainly fhewed it to be not only incorrect, but unfinished. That the author of the three firft books had a defign to extend and complete his poem in this manner, appears from the differtation prefix'd to it, where it is faid, that the defign is more extenfive, and that we may expect other episodes to complete it: And from the declaration of the argument to the third book, that the accomplishment of the prophecies therein would be the theme bereafter 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 laft fix books of the Æneid, tho' 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 next