† A Fragment of an unpublished Satire of Pope, intitled, One Thoufand Seven Hundred and ERRATA in VOL. IV. Page 10. notes, line 17, for Alcerftis read Alceftes 19. notes, ult. for Colling read Collins ult. for Spenfe read Spence 45. notes, dele lines 15, 16. line 21, for grandere read grandine 86. notes, line 3, infert the after than 106. notes, 9, for Saetorius read Sanctorius 188. notes, 255. notes, 283. notes, - --- 3, for timid read tumid E EPISTLE то DR. ARBUTHNOT. This Epistle was first published in folio, 1734, with the following motto: Neque fermonibus vulgi dederis te, nec in præmiis humanis spem pofueris rerum tuarum; fuis te oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus. Quid de te alii loquantur, ipfi videant, fed loquentur tamen. TULLY. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS EPISTLE. THIS paper is a fort of bill of complaint, begun many years fince, and drawn up by fnatches, as the feveral occafions offered. I had no thoughts of publishing it, till it pleafed fome Perfons of Rank and Fortune [the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator of Horace, and of an Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton-Court] to attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my Writings (of which, being public, the Public is judge) but my Perfon, Morals, and Family, whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be requisite. Being divided between the neceffity to say something of myself, and my own laziness to undertake so aukward a task, I thought it the shortest way to put the laft hand to this Epiftle. If it have any thing pleafing, it will be that by which I am most defirous to please, the Truth and the Sentiment; and if any thing offenfive, it will be only to those I am least forry to offend, the vicious or the ungenerous. Many will know their own pictures in it, there being not a circumstance but what is true; but I have for the most part spared their Names, and they may escape being laughed at, if they please. I would have fome of them know, it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed, that I make not as free use of theirs, as they have done of mine. However, I fhall have this advantage, and honour, on my fide, that whereas, by their proceeding, any abuse may be directed at any man, no injury can poffibly be done by mine, fince a nameless Character can never be found out, but by its truth and likeness. P. Lady Wortley Montague begins her Address to Mr. Pope, on his Imitation of the 1ft Satire of the Second Book of Horace, in these words: "In two large columns, on thy motly page, Where Roman wit is ftrip'd with English rage; And modern fcandal rolls with antient fense: And on the other how he never wrote: Who can believe, who view the bad and good, Than heretofore the Greek he did translate? Where our own fpecies in burlefque we trace, |