fuch; but also with regard to the heroical difpofition and high courage of the writer, who dar'd to stir up fuch a formidable, irritable, and implacable race of mortals.

There may arise some obfcurity in chronology from the Names in the poem, by the inevitable removal of fome authors, and infertion of others, in their niches. For whoever will confider the unity of the whole defign, will be fenfible, that the poem was not made for these authors, but theje authors for the poem. I fhould judge that they were clap'd in as they rofe, fresh and fresh, and chang'd from day to day; in like manner as when the old boughs wither, we thruft new ones into a chimney.

I would not have the reader too much troubled or anxious, if he cannot decypher them; fince when he shall have found them out, he will probably know no more of the persons than before.

Yet we judg'd it better to preferve them as they are, than to change them for fictitious names; by which the fatire would only be multiplied, and applied to many inftead of one. Had the Hero, for inftance, been called Codrus, how many would have affirm'd him to have been Mr. T. Mr. E. Sir R. B. &c. but now all that unjust fcandal is faved by calling him by a name, which by good luck happens to be that of a real perfon.

II.

A LIST of

BOOKS, PAPERS, and VERSES, In which our Author was abused, before the Publication of the DUNCIAD; with the true Names of the Authors.

EFLECTIONS critical and fatyrical on a late

R Rhapsody, called An Eflay on Criticifm. By Mr.

Dennis, printed by B. Lintot, price 6 d.

A new Rehearsal, or Bays the younger; containing an Examen of Mr. Rowe's plays, and a word or two on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock. Anon. [by Charles Gildon] printed for J. Roberts, 1714. price 1 s.

Homerides, or a Letter to Mr. Pope, occafioned by his intended tranflation of Homer. By Sir Iliad Dogrel [Tho. Burnet and G. Ducket efquires] printed for W. Wilkins, 1715. price 9 d.

fop at the Bear garden; a vifion, in imitation of the Temple of Fame, by Mr. Preston. Morphew, 1715. price 6d.

Sold by John

The Catholic Poet, or Proteftant Barnaby's Sorrowful Lamentation; a Ballad about Homer's Iliad. By Mrs. Centlivre, and others, 1715. price 1 d.

An Epilogue to a Puppet fhew at Bath, concerning the faid Iliad. By George Ducket efq. printed by E. Curl. A complete Key to the What d'ye call it. Anon. [by Griffin a player, fupervised by Mr. Th-] printed by J. Roberts, 1715.

A true Character of Mr. P. and his writings, in a letter to a friend. Anon. [Dennis] printed for S. Popping,. 1716, price 3 d.

The Confederates, a Farce. By Jofeph Gay [J. D. Breval printed for R. Burleigh, 1717, price I s.

Remarks upon Mr. Pope's tranflation of Homer; with two letters concerning the Windfor Foreft, and the Temple of Fame. By Mr. Dennis, printed for E. Curl, 1717, price 1 s. 6d.

Satires on the tranflators of Homer, Mr. P. and Mr. T. Anon. [Bez. Morris] 1717, price 6 d.

The Triumvirate: or, a Letter from Palæmon to Celia at Bath. Anon. [Leonard Welfted] 1711, Folio, price 1 s. The Battle of Poets; an heroic poem. By Tho. Cooke, printed for J. Roberts, Folio, 1725.

Memoirs of Lilliput. Anon. [Eliza Haywood] octavo, printed in 1727.

An Effay on Criticism, in profe. By the Author of the Critical Hiftory of England [J. Oldmixon] octavo, printed 1728.

Gulliveriana and Alexandria; with an ample preface
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and critique on Swift and Pope's Mifcellanies. By Jonathan Smedley, printed by J. Roberts, octavo, 1728.

Characters of the Times; or, an account of the writings, characters, &c. of feveral gentlemen libelled by Sand P, in a late Mifcellany, octavo, 1728.

Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock, in letters to a friend. By Mr. Dennis; written in 1724, though not printed till 1728, octavo.

Verfes, Letters, Effays, or Advertisements, in the public Prints.

British Journal, Nov. 25, 1727:

A Letter on Swift and Pope's Mifcellanies. [Writ by M. Concanen.] Daily Journal, March 18, 1728. A Letter by Philomauri. James Moore Smith.

Id. March 29. A Letter about Therfites; accufing the author of diflaffection to the Government. By JamesMoore Smith.

Mift's Weekly Journal, March 30. An Effay on the Arts of a Poet's finking in reputation; or, a Supplement to the Art of Sinking in Poetry. [Suppofed by Mr. Theobald.]

Daily Journal, April 3. A Letter under the name of Philo ditto. By James Moore Smith.

Flying Poft, April 4. A Letter against Gulliver and Mr. P. [By Mr. Oldmixon.]

Daily Journal, April 5. An Auction of Goods at Twickenham. By James Moore Smith.

The Flying Polt, April 6. A Fragment of a Treatise upon Swift and Pope. By Mr. Oldmixon.

The Senator, April 9. On the fame. By Edward Roome. Daily Journal, April Advertisement by JamesMoore Smith.

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Flying Poft, April 13. against Mr. P-'s Homer. Daily Journal, April 23.

Verfes against Dr. Swift, and
By J. Oldmixon.

Letter about the tranflation
By Thomas

of the character of Therfites in Homer. Cooke, &'c.

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, o&avo, and printed for A, Moore, 1728, price 1 s. Others of an elder date, having lain as waite 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

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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.

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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, izmo. price 6 d.

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

12mo.

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

E. Curl.

The Curliad. By the fame

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,

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, &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 some or other of the Club of Theobald, Dennis, Moore, Concanen, Cooke, who for some 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 promise, that any thing which any body should fend as Mr. Pope's or "Dr. Swift's fhould be inferted and published as theirs.".