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WHEREAS CERTAIN HABERDASHERS OF POINTS AND PARTICLES, BEING INSTIGATED BY THE SPIRIT OF PRIDE, AND ASSUMING TO THEMSELVES THE NAME OF CRITICS AND RESTORERS, HAVE TAKEN UPON THEM TO ADULTERATE THE COMMON AND CURRENT SENSE OF OUR GLORIOUS ANCESTORS, POETS OF THIS REALM, BY CLIPPING, COINING, DEFACING THE IMAGES, MIXING THEIR OWN BASE ALLAY, OR OTHERWISE FALSIFYING THE SAME; WHICH THEY PUBLISH, UTTER, AND VEND AS GENUINE: THE SAID HABERDASHERS HAVING NO RIGHT THERETO, AS NEITHER HEIRS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, ASSIGNS, OR IN ANY SORT RELATED TO SUCH POETS, TO ALL OR ANY OF THEM NOW WE, HAVING CAREFULLY REVISED THIS OUR DUNCIAD, BEGINNING WITH THE

1 Read thus confidently, instead of " beginning with the word Books, and ending with the word flies," as formerly it stood; read also "containing the entire sum of one thousand, seven hundred, and fifty-four verses," instead of "one thousand and twelve lines;" such being the initial and final words, and such the true and entire contents of this poem.

Thou art to know, reader! that the first edition thereof, like that of Milton, was never seen by the author, (though living and not blind;) the editor himself confest as much in his preface: and no two poems were ever published in so arbitrary a manner. The editor of this, had as boldly suppressed whole passages, yea the entire last book; as the editor of Paradise Lost, added and augmented. Milton

WORDS THE MIGHTY MOTHER, AND ENDING WITH THE WORDS BURIES ALL, CONTAINING THE ENTIRE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR VERSES, DECLARE EVERY WORD, FIGURE, POINT, AND COMMA OF THIS IMPRESSION TO BE AUTHENTIC; AND DO THEREFORE STRICTLY ENJOIN AND FORBID ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER TO ERASE, REVERSE, PUT BETWEEN HOOKS, OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, CHANGE OR MANGLE ANY OF THEM. AND WE DO HEREBY EARNESTLY EXHORT ALL OUR BRETHREN TO FOLLOW THIS OUR EXAMPLE, WHICH WE HEARTILY WISH OUR GREAT PREDECESSORS HAD HERETOFORE SET, AS A REMEDY AND PREVENTION OF ALL SUCH ABUSES. PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT NOTHING IN THIS DECLARATION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT THE LAWFUL AND UNDOUBTED RIGHT OF EVERY SUBJECT OF THIS REALM, TO JUDGE, CENSURE, OR CONDEMN, IN THE WHOLE OR IN PART, ANY POEM OR POET, WHATSOEVER.

Given under our hand at London, this third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred, thirty and two. Declarat' cor' me, JOHN BARBER, Mayor.

himself gave but ten books, his editor twelve; this author gave four books, his editor only three. But we have happily done justice to both; and presume we shall live, in this our last labour, as long as in any of our others. BENTLEY.

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CIBBER, Colley, hero of the poem, passim.
Cibber, jun. iii. 163, 167.

Caxton, William, i. 144.

Curl, Edm., i. 140; ii. 149, 150, 151, &c.
Cooke, Thomas, ii. 152.

Concanen, Matthew, ii. 157.

Centlivre, Susannah, ii. 159.
Cæsar in Egypt, i. 146.

Chi Ho-am-ti, emperor of China, iii. 162.
Crouzaz, iv. 173.

Codrus, ii, 152.

DE FOE, Daniel, i. 142, ii. 153.

De Foe, Norton, ii. 160.'

De Lyra, or Harpsfield, i. 144.

Dennis, John, i. 142, ii. 155, iii. 164.

Dunton, John, ii. 152.

Durfey, iii. 163.

Dutchmen, ii. 159; iii. 161.

Doctors, at White's, i. 145.
Douglas, iv. 177.

EUSDEN, Laurence, Poet Laureate, i. 142.
Eliza Haywood, ii. 153, &c.

FLECKNO, Richard, ii. 149.

Faustus, Dr., iii. 167.

Fleetwood, iv. 176.

Free Masons, iv. 180.
French Cooks, ib.

GILDON, Charles, i. 147.

Goode, Barn., iii, 163.

Goths, iii.162.

Gazetteers, i. 145; ii. 157.

Gregorians and Gormogons, iv. 180.

HOLLAND, Philemon, i. 144.

Hearne, Thomas, iii. 164.

Horneck, Philip, iii. 163.

Haywood, Eliza, ii. 153, &c.

Howard, Edward, i. 148.

Henly, John, the Orator, ii. 149, 160; iii 165, &c.
Huns, iii. 162.

Heywood, John, i. 142.

Harpsfield, i. 144.

Hays, iv. 180.

JOHN, king, i. 146.

James I., iv. 172.

Jacob, Giles, iii. 163.

Janssen, a gamester, iv. 176.

KNIGHT, Robert, iv. 180.
Küster, iv. 174.

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INDEX

OF MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES.

The first Number denotes the Book, the second the Page and Note on it. Test. Testimonies.

ADDISON (Mr.) railed at by A. Philips, iii. 167

-Abused by J. Oldmixon, in his Prose-Essay on Criticism, etc. ii. 156.

-by J. Ralph, in a London Journal, iii. 163, 164. -Celebrated by our author-Upon his Discourse of Medals-In his Prologue to Cato-In his Imitation of Horace's Epistle to Augustus-and in this poem, ii. 152. False Facts concerning him and our author related by anonymous persons in Mist's Journal, &c. Test. -Disproved by the Testimonies of

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BANKS, his resemblance to Mr. Cibber in tragedy, i.144. BROOM, Ben Jonson's man, ib.

BAVIUS, iii. 161. Mr. Dennis, his great opinion of him, ib. Bawdry, in plays, not disapproved of by Mr. Dennis, iii. 164.

BLACKMORE, (Sir Rich.) his impiety and irreligion, proved by Mr. Dennis, ii. 156.

-His quantity of works, and various opinions of them -His abuse of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, ib. Bray, a word much beloved by Sir Richard, ii. 155. Braying, described, ii. 155.

Birch, by no means proper to be applied to young noblemen, iii. 168.

BL-D, what became of his works, i. 146.

BROOME, (Rev. Mr. Wil.) His sentiments of our author's virtue, Test.

Billingsgate language how to be used by learned authors, ii. 152.

BOND, BEZALEEL, BREVAL, not living writers, but phantoms, ii. 151.

Booksellers, how they run for a poet, ii. 149.
Bailiffs, how poets run from them, ii. 150;
Bridewell, ii. 156.

Bow-bell, iii. 166.

CIBBER, hero of the poem, his character, i. 143. not absolutely stupid. ib. not unfortunate as a coxcomb, ib. not a slow writer, but precipitate, though heavy, ib. His productions the effects of heat, though an imperfect

one, i. 143. His folly heightened with frenzy, ib. He borrowed from Fletcher and Molière, ib. Mangled Shakspeare, ib. His head distinguished for wearing an extraordinary periwig, 144. more than for its reasoning faculty, yet not without furniture, 145. His elasticity and fire, and how he came by them, ib. He was once thought to have written a reasonable play, ib. The general character of his verse and prose, ib. His conversation, in what manner extensive and useful, ib. Once designed for the church, where he should have been a bishop, ib. Since inclined to write for the minister of state, ib. but determines to stick to his other talents, what those are, 146, &c. His apostrophe to his works, before he burns them, ib. &c. His repentance and tears, ib. Dulness puts out the fire, 147. Inaugurates and anoints him, ib. His crown, by whom woven, 146. of what composed, 148. who let him into court, ib. who his supporters, ib. His entry, attendants, and proclamation, usque ad fin. His enthronization, ii. 149. Passes his whole reign in seeing shows, through book ii. And dreaming dreams, through book iii. Settle appears to him, iii. 161. Resemblance between him and Settle, iii. 161. and i. 144. Goodman's prophecy of him, iii. 166. How he translated an opera, without knowing the story, 167. and encouraged farces because it was against his conscience, 166. Declares he never mounted a dragon, ib. Apprehensions of acting in a serpent, 167. What were the passions of his old age, ib. Finally subsides in the lap of Dulness, where he rests to all eternity, iv. 169, and note. CIBBER'S father, i. 140. His two brothers, ib. His son, iii. 163. His better progeny, i. 146.

Cibberian forehead, what is meant by it, i. 146.

-read by some, Cerberian, ib. Note. COOKE (Tho.) abused by Mr. Pope, ii. 152. CONCANEN, (Mat.) one of the authors of the weekly journals, ii. 157.

-Declared that when this poem had blanks, they meant treason, iii. 167.

Of opinion that Juvenal never satirized the poverty of Codrus, ii. 153.

Corncutter's Journal, what it cost, ii. 157.

Critics, verbal ones, must have two postulata allowed them, ii. 149.

Cat-calls, ii. 155.

CURL, Edm. his panegyric, ii. 150

-His Corinna, and what she did, 150.
His prayer, 151.-like Eridanus, 154.
-Much favoured by Cloacina, 151, &c.
-Tossed in a blanket and whipped, 153.
-Pilloried, ii, 149.

Caroline, a curious flower, its fate, iv. 177.

DULNESS, the Goddess; her original and parents, i. 139. Her ancient empire, ib. Her public college, i. ib. Academy for poetical education, 140. Her cardinal virtues, ib. &c. Her ideas, productions, and creation, 141, &c. Her survey and contemplation of her works, ib. &c. And of her children, ib. Their uninterrupted succession, 142. Her appearance to Cibber, 147. She

manifests to him her works, i. 147, &c. Anoints him, ib. &c. Institutes games at his coronation, ii. 149. &c. The manner how she makes a wit, ii. 150. A great lover of a joke, 149.-And loves to repeat the same over again, 151. Her ways and means to procure the pathetic and terrible in tragedy, 155, &c. Encourages chattering and bawling, ib. &c. And is patroness of party-writing and railing, 156, &c. Makes use of the heads of critics as scales to weigh the heaviness of authors, 158. Promotes slumber with the works of the said authors, 159. The wonderful virtue of sleeping in her lap, iii. 160, &c. Her elysium, ib. &c. The souls of her sons dipped in Lethe, 161. How brought into the world, ib. Their The extent transfiguration and metempsychosis, ib. and glories of her empire, and her conquests throughout the world, iii. 162. A catalogue of her poetical forces in this nation, 163 to 165. Prophecy of her restoration, 167. Accomplishment of it, book iv. Her appearance on the throne, with the Sciences led in triumph, iv. 170. Tragedy and Comedy silenced, ib. General assembly of all her votaries, 171. Her patrons, ib. Her critics, 172. Her sway in the schools, 172, 173. And universities, 174, 175. How she educates gentlemen in their travels, 176. Constitutes virtuosi in science, 177. Free-thinkers in religion, 179. Slaves and dependents in government, ib. Finally turns them to beasts, but preserves the form of men, 180. What sort of comforters she sends them, ib. What orders and degrees she confers on them, ib. What performances she expects from them, according to their several ranks and degrees, 181. The powerful yawn she breathes on them, ib. Its progress and effects, ib. till the consummation of all, in the total extinction of the reasonable soul, and restoration of Night and Chaos, usq. ad fin. 182.

Dispensary of Dr. Garth, ii. 153.

De Foe, Daniel, in what resembled to William Prynn, i.

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FALSEHOODS, told of our author in print,

-Of his taking verses from James Moore, Test. -And of his intending to abuse bishop Burnet, ib. By John Dennis, of his really poisoning Mr. Curl, i. 142. -And of contempt for the sacred writings, ii. 156. -By Edward Ward, of his being bribed by a duchess to satirize Ward of Hackney in the pillory, iii. 161. -By Mist the journalist, of unfair proceeding in the undertaking of the Odyssey and Shakspeare, Test. -Disproved by the testimony of the Lords Harcourt and Bathurst.

-By Mist, the journalist, concerning Mr. Addison and him, two or three lies, Test.

-By Pasquin, of his being in a plot, iii. 164. -By Sir Richard Blackmore, of his burlesquing Scripture, upon the authority of Curl, ii. 156. Fletcher, made Cibber's property, i. 143.

Mac Fleckno, not so decent and chaste in the diction as the Dunciad, ii. 151.

Friendship, understood by Mr. Dennis to be somewhat else in Nisus and Euryalus, &c. iii. 164. French cooks, iv. 180.

Furius, Mr. Dennis called so, by Mr. Theobald, i. 142. Fleet-ditch, ii. 156. Its nymphs, 158. Discoveries there, ib. Flies, not the ultimate object of human study, iv. 178. Falsehoods and flatteries permitted to be inscribed on churches, i. 140.

Good-nature of our author; instances of it in this work, I. 148; ii. 156.

Good sense, grammar, and verse, desired to give place for the sake of Mr. Bez. Morris and his works, iii. 164. GILDON (Charles) abused our Author in many things. Test. i. 147.

-Printed against Jesus Christ, i. 147.

GILDON and DENNIS, their unhappy difference lamented,

iii. 164.

Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator, by Welsted, ii. 155. Gazetteers, the monstrous price of their writings, ii. 157, the miserable fate of their works, ib.

HANDEL, an excellent musician, banished to Ireland by the English nobility, iv. 171.

Heydeggre, a strange bird from Switzerland, i. 147.
HORACE, censured by Mr. Welsted, Test.

-Did not know what he was about when he wrote his
Art of Poetry, ib.

HENLEY (John the Orator) his Tub and Eucharist, ii. 149. His history, iii. 165. His opinion of ordination and christian priesthood, ib. His medals, ib.

HAYWOOD (Mrs.) What sort of game for her, ii. 153. Won by Curl, 154. Her great respect for him, 153. The offspring of her brain and body (according to Curl, ib. Not undervalued by being set against a jordan, 153. Hints, extraordinary ones, ii. 156. HORNECK and ROOME, two party-writers, iii. 163.

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