The Dunciad: Appendix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I PREFACE	A
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PREFIXED TO THE FIVE FIRST IMPERFECT EDITIONS OF THE DUNCIAD IN THREE	B
BOOKS PRINTED AT DUBLIN AND LONDON IN OCTAVO AND DUODECIMO	C
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THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER	D
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It will be found a true observation though somewhat surprising that	E
when any scandal is vented against a man of the highest distinction and	F
character either in the state or in literature the public in general	G
afford it a most quiet reception and the larger part accept it as	H
favourably as if it were some kindness done to themselves whereas if a	I
known scoundrel or blockhead but chance to be touched upon a whole	J
legion is up in arms and it becomes the common cause of all scribblers	K
booksellers and printers whatsoever	D
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Not to search too deeply into the reason hereof I will only observe as	H
a fact that every week for these two months past the town has been	L
persecuted with pamphlets advertisements letters and weekly essays	M
not only against the wit and writings but against the character and	F
person of Mr Pope And that of all those men who have received pleasure	D
from his works which by modest computation may be about a hundred	N
thousand in these kingdoms of England and Ireland not to mention	O
Jersey Guernsey the Orcades those in the new world and foreigners	K
who have translated him into their languages of all this number not a	I
man hath stood up to say one word in his defence	P
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The only exception is the author of the following poem who doubtless	A
had either a better insight into the grounds of this clamour or a	I
better opinion of Mr Pope's integrity joined with a greater personal	Q
love for him than any other of his numerous friends and admirers	K
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Further that he was in his peculiar intimacy appears from the	I
knowledge he manifests of the most private authors of all the anonymous	A
pieces against him and from his having in this poem attacked no man	R
living who had not before printed or published some scandal against	S
this gentleman	O
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How I came possessed of it is no concern to the reader but it would	T
have been a wrong to him had I detained the publication since those	U
names which are its chief ornaments die off daily so fast as must	V
render it too soon unintelligible If it provoke the author to give us a	I
more perfect edition I have my end	W
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Who he is I cannot say and which is a great pity there is certainly	B
nothing in his style and manner of writing which can distinguish or	X
discover him for if it bears any resemblance to that of Mr Pope 'tis	Y
not improbable but it might be done on purpose with a view to have it	Z
pass for his But by the frequency of his allusions to Virgil and a	I
laboured not to say affected shortness in imitation of him I should	T
think him more an admirer of the Roman poet than of the Grecian and in	L
that not of the same taste with his friend	W
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I have been well informed that this work was the labour of full six	A2
years of his life and that he wholly retired himself from all the	I
avocations and pleasures of the world to attend diligently to its	B2
correction and perfection and six years more he intended to bestow upon	C2
it as it should seem by this verse of Statius which was cited at the	I
head of his manuscript	D2
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'Oh mihi bissenos multum vigilata per annos	B2
Duncia '	-
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Hence also we learn the true title of the poem which with the same	C
certainty as we call that of Homer the Iliad of Virgil the Aeneid of	E2
Camoens the Lusiad we may pronounce could have been and can be no	F2
other than	R
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THE DUNCIAD	D2
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It is styled heroic as being doubly so not only with respect to its	B2
nature which according to the best rules of the ancients and	D2
strictest ideas of the moderns is critically such but also with regard	D2
to the heroical disposition and high courage of the writer who dared to	D2
stir up such a formidable irritable and implacable race of mortals	B2
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There may arise some obscurity in chronology from the names in the poem	C
by the inevitable removal of some authors and insertion of others in	L
their niches For whoever will consider the unity of the whole design	G2
will be sensible that the poem was not made for these authors but these	B2
authors for the poem I should judge that they were clapped in as they	H2
rose fresh and fresh and changed from day to day in like manner as	B2
when the old boughs wither we thrust new ones into a chimney	B
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I would not have the reader too much troubled or anxious if he cannot	D2
decipher them since when he shall have found them out he will probably	B
know no more of the persons than before	X
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Yet we judged it better to preserve them as they are than to change	I2
them for fictitious names by which the satire would only be multiplied	D2
and applied to many instead of one Had the hero for instance been	L
called Codrus how many would have affirmed him to have been Mr T Mr	D
E Sir R B c but now all that unjust scandal is saved by calling	J2
him by a name which by good luck happens to be that of a real person	O
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II A LIST OF BOOKS PAPERS AND VERSES	B2
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IN WHICH OUR AUTHOR WAS ABUSED BEFORE THE PUBLICATION OF THE DUNCIAD	D2
WITH THE TRUE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS	B2
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Reflections Critical and Satirical on a late Rhapsody called an Essay	H2
on Criticism By Mr Dennis Printed by B Lintot price d	D2
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A New Rehearsal or Bayes the Younger containing an Examen of Mr Rowe's	B2
plays and a word or two on Mr Pope's Rape of the Lock Anon By	K2
Charles Gildon Printed for J Roberts price s	B2
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Homerides or a Letter to Mr Pope occasioned by his intended	D2
translation of Homer By Sir Iliad Doggrel Tho Burnet and G Ducket	D2
Esquires Printed for W Wilkins price d	D2
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Aesop at the Bear Garden a Vision in imitation of the Temple of Fame	C
By Mr Preston Sold by John Morphew price d	D2
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The Catholic Poet or Protestant Barnaby's Sorrowful Lamentations a	I
Ballad about Homer's Iliad By Mrs Centlivre and others price d	D2
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An Epilogue to a Puppet Show at Bath concerning the said Iliad By	K2
George Ducket Esq Printed by E Curll	B
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A Complete Key to the What d'ye call it Anon By Griffin a player	D
supervised by Mr Th Printed by J Roberts	B2
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A True Character of Mr P and his Writings in a Letter to a Friend	D2
Anon Dennis Printed for S Popping price d	D2
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The Confederates a Farce By Joseph Gay J D Breval Printed for R	L2
Burleigh price s	B2
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Remarks upon Mr Pope's Translation of Homer with Two Letters concerning	J2
the Windsor Forest and the Temple of Fame By Mr Dennis Printed for E	D2
Curll price s d	D2
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Satires on the Translators of Homer Mr P and Mr T Anon Bez	B2
Morris price d	D2
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The Triumvirate or a Letter from Palaemon to Celia at Bath Anon	O
Leonard Welsted folio price s	B2
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The Battle of Poets an Heroic Poem By Thomas Cooke Printed for J	H2
Roberts Folio	B
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Memoirs of Lilliput Anon Eliza Haywood Octavo printed in	O
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An Essay on Criticism in Prose By the Author of the Critical History	D2
of England J Oldmixon Octavo printed	D2
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Gulliveriana and Alexandriana with an ample Preface and Critique on	O
Swift and Pope's Miscellanies By Jonathan Smedley Printed by J	H2
Roberts Octavo	E2
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Characters of the Times or an Account of the Writings Characters	B2
c of several Gentlemen libelled by S and P in a late	D2
Miscellany Octavo	E2
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Remarks on Mr Pope's Rape of the Lock in Letters to a Friend By Mr	D
Dennis Written in though not printed till Octavo	E2
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VERSES LETTERS ESSAYS OR ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE PUBLIC PRINTS	B2
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British Journal Nov A Letter on Swift and Pope's	B2
Miscellanies Writ by M Concanen	O
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Daily Journal March A Letter by Philo mauri James Moore	M2
Smith	N2
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Ibid March A Letter about Thersites accusing the author of	E2
disaffection to the Government By James Moore Smith	N2
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Mist's Weekly Journal March An Essay on the Arts of a Poet's	B2
Sinking in Reputation or a Supplement to the Art of Sinking in Poetry	D2
Supposed by Mr Theobald	D2
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Daily Journal April A Letter under the name of Philo ditto By James	B2
Moore Smith	N2
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Flying Post April A Letter against Gulliver and Mr P By Mr	D
Oldmixon	O
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Daily Journal April An Auction of Goods at Twickenham By James	B2
Moore Smith	N2
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The Flying Post April A Fragment of a Treatise upon Swift and Pope	O2
By Mr Oldmixon	O
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The Senator April On the same By Edward Roome	C
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Daily Journal April Advertisement by James Moore Smith	N2
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Flying Post April Verses against Dr Swift and against Mr P 's	B2
Homer By J Oldmixon	O
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Daily Journal April Letter about the Translation of the Character	D
of Thersites in Homer By Thomas Cooke c	D2
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Mist's Weekly Journal April A Letter of Lewis Theobald	D2
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Daily Journal May A Letter against Mr P at large Anon John	O
Dennis	B2
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All these were afterwards reprinted in a pamphlet entitled A	I
Collection of all the Verses Essays Letters and Advertisements	B2
occasioned by Mr Pope and Swift's Miscellanies prefaced by Concanen	O
Anonymous octavo and printed for A Moore price s Others of	E2
an elder date having lain as waste paper many years were upon the	I
publication of the Dunciad brought out and their authors betrayed by	K2
the mercenary booksellers in hope of some possibility of vending a	I
few by advertising them in this manner The Confederates a Farce	B2
By Captain Breval for which he was put into the Dunciad An Epilogue	P2
to Powell's Puppet Show By Colonel Ducket for which he is put into the	I
Dunciad Essays c By Sir Richard Blackmore N B It was for a	I
passage of this book that Sir Richard was put into the Dunciad And so	B2
of others	B2
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AFTER THE DUNCIAD	D2
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An Essay on the Dunciad octavo Printed for J Roberts In this book	Q2
p it was formally declared 'That the complaint of the aforesaid	D2
libels and advertisements was forged and untrue that all mouths had	D2
been silent except in Mr Pope's praise and nothing against him	C
published but by Mr Theobald '	-
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Sawney in Blank Verse occasioned by the Dunciad with a Critique on	O
that Poem By J Ralph a person never mentioned in it at first but	D2
inserted after Printed for J Roberts octavo	E2
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A Complete Key to the Dunciad By E Curll mo price d	D2
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A Second and Third Edition of the same with Additions mo	B2
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The Popiad By E Curll Extracted from J Dennis Sir Richard	D2
Blackmore c mo price d	D2
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The Curliad By the same E Curll	B
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The Female Dunciad Collected by the same Mr Curll mo price d With	R2
the Metamorphosis of P into a Stinging Nettle By Mr Foxton mo	B2
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The Metamorphosis of Scriblerus into Snarlerus By J Smedley Printed	D2
for A Moore folio price d	D2
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The Dunciad Dissected By Curll and Mrs Thomas mo	B2
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An Essay on the Tastes and Writings of the Present Times Said to be	D2
writ by a Gentleman of C C C Oxon Printed for J Roberts octavo	E2
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The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric partly taken from Bouhours with New	O
Reflections c By John Oldmixon Octavo	E2
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Remarks on the Dunciad By Mr Dennis Dedicated to Theobald Octavo	E2
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A Supplement to the Profund Anon By Matthew Coucanen Octavo	E2
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Mist's Weekly Journal June A long Letter signed W A Writ by some	C
or other of the Club of Theobald Dennis Moore Concanen Cooke who	O
for some time held constant weekly meetings for these kind of	E2
performances	B2
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Daily Journal June A Letter signed Philoscriblerus on the name of	E2
Pope Letter to Mr Theobald inverse signed B M Bezaleel Morris	B2
against Mr P Many other little Epigrams about this time in the same	C
papers by James Moore and others	B2
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Mist's Journal June A Letter by Lewis Theobald	D2
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Flying Post August Letter on Pope and Swift	D2
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Daily Journal August Letter charging the Author of the Dunciad with	R2
Treason	O
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Durgen A Plain Satire on a Pompous Satirist By Edward Ward with a	I
little of James Moore	M2
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Apollo's Maggot in his Cups By E Ward	D2
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Gulliveriana Secunda Being a Collection of many of the Libels in the	I
Newspapers like the former Volume under the same title by Smedley	D2
Advertised in the Craftsman Nov with this remarkable promise	B2
that 'any thing which any body should send as Mr Pope's or Dr	S2
Swift's should be inserted and published as theirs '	-
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Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Infallibility Examined c By George	T2
Ducket and John Dennis Quarto	B2
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Dean Jonathan's Paraphrase on the Fourth Chapter of Genesis Writ by E	D2
Roome Folio	D2
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Labeo A Paper of Verses by Leonard Welsted which after came into One	O
Epistle and was published by James Moore quarto Another part	D2
of it came out in Welsted's own name under the just title of Dulness	B2
and Scandal folio	D2
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There have been since published	D2
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Verses on the Imitator of Horace By a Lady or between a Lady a Lord	D2
and a Court squire Printed for J Roberts Folio	D2
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An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity from Hampton Court	D2
Lord H y Printed for J Roberts Folio	D2
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A Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope Printed for W Lewis in Covent	D2
Garden Octavo	E2
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III ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION WITH NOTES	B2
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IN QUARTO	B2
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It will be sufficient to say of this edition that the reader has here a	I
much more correct and complete copy of the Dunciad than has hitherto	O
appeared I cannot answer but some mistakes may have slipped into it	D2
but a vast number of others will be prevented by the names being now not	D2
only set at length but justified by the authorities and reasons given	O
I make no doubt the author's own motive to use real rather than feigned	D2
names was his care to preserve the innocent from any false application	O
whereas in the former editions which had no more than the initial	D2
letters he was made by Keys printed here to hurt the inoffensive and	D2
what was worse to abuse his friends by an impression at Dublin	O
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The commentary which attends this poem was sent me from several hands	B2
and consequently must be unequally written yet will have one advantage	U2
over most commentaries that it is not made upon conjectures or at a	I
remote distance of time and the reader cannot but derive one pleasure	D
from the very obscurity of the persons it treats of that it partakes of	E2
the nature of a secret which most people love to be let into though	B2
the men or the things be ever so inconsiderable or trivial	D2
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Of the persons it was judged proper to give some account for since it	D2
is only in this monument that they must expect to survive and here	V2
survive they will as long as the English tongue shall remain such as it	D2
was in the reigns of Queen Anne and King George it seemed but humanity	D2
to bestow a word or two upon each just to tell what he was what he	D2
writ when he lived and when he died	D2
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If a word or two more are added upon the chief offenders it is only as	B2
a paper pinned upon the breast to mark the enormities for which they	H2
suffered lest the correction only should be remembered and the crime	C
forgotten In some articles it was thought sufficient barely to	O
transcribe from Jacob Curll and other writers of their own rank who	O
were much better acquainted with them than any of the authors of this	B2
comment can pretend to be Most of them had drawn each other's	B2
characters on certain occasions but the few here inserted are all that	D2
could be saved from the general destruction of such works	B2
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Of the part of Scriblerus I need say nothing his manner is well enough	E2
known and approved by all but those who are too much concerned to be	D2
judges	B2
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The Imitations of the Ancients are added to gratify those who either	D
never read or may have forgotten them together with some of the	I
parodies and allusions to the most excellent of the Moderns If from	C
the frequency of the former any man think the poem too much a Cento	D2
our poet will but appear to have done the same thing in jest which	W2
Boileau did in earnest and upon which Vida Fracastorius and many of	E2
the most eminent Latin poets professedly valued themselves	B2
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IV ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE	I
DUNCIAD	D2
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WHEN PRINTED SEPARATELY IN THE YEAR	X2
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We apprehend it can be deemed no injury to the author of the three first	D2
books of the Dunciad that we publish this fourth It was found merely by	K2
accident in taking a survey of the library of a late eminent nobleman	O
but in so blotted a condition and in so many detached pieces as	B2
plainly showed it to be not only incorrect but unfinished That the	I
author of the three first books had a design to extend and complete his	B2
poem in this manner appears from the dissertation prefixed to it where	Y2
it is said that the design is more extensive and that we may expect	D2
other episodes to complete it and from the declaration in the argument	D2
to the third book that the accomplishment of the prophecies therein	O
would be the theme hereafter of a greater Dunciad But whether or no he	D2
be the author of this we declare ourselves ignorant If he be we are	L2
no more to be blamed for the publication of it than Tucca and Varius for	X
that of the last six books of the Aeneid though perhaps inferior to the	I
former	D
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If any person be possessed of a more perfect copy of this work or of	E2
any other fragments of it and will communicate them to the publisher	D
we shall make the next edition more complete in which we also promise	B2
to insert any criticisms that shall be published if at all to the	I
purpose with the names of the authors or any letters sent us though	B2
not to the purpose shall yet be printed under the title of Epistolae	D2
Obscurorum Virorum which together with some others of the same kind	D2
formerly laid by for that end may make no unpleasant addition to the	I
future impressions of this poem	C
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V ADVERTISEMENT TO THE COMPLETE EDITION of	E2
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I have long had a design of giving some sort of Notes on the works of	E2
this poet Before I had the happiness of his acquaintance I had written	O
a commentary on his Essay on Man and have since finished another on the	I
Essay on Criticism There was one already on the Dunciad which had met	D2
with general approbation but I still thought some additions were	D
wanting of a more serious kind to the humorous notes of Scriblerus	B2
and even to those written by Mr Cleland Dr Arbuthnot and others I had	D2
lately the pleasure to pass some months with the author in the country	D2
where I prevailed upon him to do what I had long desired and favour me	D2
with his explanation of several passages in his works It happened that	D2
just at that juncture was published a ridiculous book against him full	D2
of personal reflections which furnished him with a lucky opportunity of	E2
improving this poem by giving it the only thing it wanted a more	X
considerable hero He was always sensible of its defect in that	D2
particular and owned he had let it pass with the hero it had purely for	X
want of a better not entertaining the least expectation that such an	O
one was reserved for this post as has since obtained the Laurel but	D2
since that had happened he could no longer deny this justice either to	D2
him or the Dunciad	D2
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And yet I will venture to say there was another motive which had still	D2
more weight with our author This person was one who from every folly	D2
not to say vice of which another would be ashamed has constantly	D2
derived a vanity and therefore was the man in the world who would least	D2
be hurt by it	D2
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VI ADVERTISEMENT PRINTED IN THE JOURNALS	B2
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Whereas upon occasion of certain pieces relating to the gentlemen of	E2
the Dunciad some have been willing to suggest as if they looked upon	O
them as an abuse we can do no less than own it is our opinion that to	-
call these gentlemen bad authors is no sort of abuse but a great truth	Z2
We cannot alter this opinion without some reason but we promise to do	-
it in respect to every person who thinks it an injury to be represented	D2
as no wit or poet provided he procures a certificate of his being	J2
really such from any three of his companions in the Dunciad or from Mr	D
Dennis singly who is esteemed equal to any three of the number	D
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VII A PARALLEL OF THE CHARACTERS OF MR DRYDEN AND MR POPE	O2
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AS DRAWN BY CERTAIN OF THEIR CONTEMPORARIES	B2
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MR DRYDEN HIS POLITICS RELIGION MORALS	B2
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MR DRYDEN is a mere renegado from monarchy poetry and good	D2
sense a true republican son of monarchical Church a	I
republican atheist Dryden was from the beginning an Greek	A3
alloprosallos and I doubt not will continue so to the last	D2
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In the poem called Absalom and Achitophel are notoriously traduced the	I
King the Queen the Lords and Gentlemen not only their honourable	D2
persons exposed but the whole nation and its representatives	B2
notoriously libelled It is scandalum magnatum yea of majesty	D2
itself	E2
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He looks upon God's gospel as a foolish fable like the Pope to whom he	D2
is a pitiful purveyor His very Christianity may be	D2
questioned He ought to expect more severity than other men as he	D2
is most unmerciful in his own reflections on others With as good a	I
right as his holiness he sets up for poetical infallibility	D2
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MR DRYDEN ONLY A VERSIFIER	D
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His whole libel is all bad matter beautified which is all that can be	D2
said of it with good metre Mr Dryden's genius did not appear in	O
any thing more than his versification and whether he is to be ennobled	D2
for that only is a question	O
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MR DRYDEN'S VIRGIL	D2
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Tonson calls it Dryden's Virgil to show that this is not that Virgil so	B2
admired in the Augustaean age but a Virgil of another stamp a silly	D2
impertinent nonsensical writer None but a Bavius a Maevius or a	I
Bathyllus carped at Virgil and none but such unthinking vermin admire	D
his translator It is true soft and easy lines might become Ovid's	B2
Epistles or Art of Love but Virgil who is all great and majestic c	D2
requires strength of lines weight of words and closeness of	E2
expressions not an ambling muse running on carpet ground and shod as	B2
lightly as a Newmarket racer He has numberless faults in his author's	B2
meaning and in propriety of expression	O
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MR DRYDEN UNDERSTOOD NO GREEK NOR LATIN	O
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Mr Dryden was once I have heard at Westminster school Dr Bushby would	D2
have whipped him for so childish a paraphrase The meanest pedant	D2
in England would whip a lubber of twelve for construing so	B2
absurdly The translator is mad every line betrays his	B2
stupidity The faults are innumerable and convince me that Mr	D
Dryden did not or would not understand his author This shows how	B3
fit Mr D may be to translate Homer A mistake in a single letter might	D2
fall on the printer well enough but Greek eichor for Greek ichor	D
must be the error of the author Nor had he art enough to correct it at	D2
the press Mr Dryden writes for the court ladies He writes for the	I
ladies and not for use	B2
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The translator puts in a little burlesque now and then into Virgil for	D
a ragout to his cheated subscribers	B2
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MR DRYDEN TRICKED HIS SUBSCRIBERS	B2
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I wonder that any man who could not but be conscious of his own	O
unfitness for it should go to amuse the learned world with such an	O
undertaking A man ought to value his reputation more than money and	D2
not to hope that those who can read for themselves will be imposed upon	O
merely by a partially and unseasonably celebrated name Poetis	B2
quidlibei audendi shall be Mr Dryden's motto though it should extend	D2
to picking of pockets	B2
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NAMES BESTOWED ON MR DRYDEN	O
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An Ape A crafty ape dressed up in a gaudy gown whips put into an	O
ape's paw to play pranks with none but apish and papish brats will	D2
heed him	C
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An Ass A camel will take upon him no more burden than is sufficient	D2
for his strength but there is another beast that crouches under	D
all	D2
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A Frog Poet Squab endued with Poet Maro's spirit an ugly croaking	J2
kind of vermin which would swell to the bulk of an ox	B2
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A Coward A Clinias or a Damaetas or a man of Mr Dryden's own	O
courage	C3
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A Knave Mr Dryden has heard of Paul the knave of Jesus Christ and	D2
if I mistake not I've read somewhere of John Dryden servant to his	B2
Majesty	D2
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A Fool Had he not been such a self conceited fool Some great	D2
poets are positive blockheads	B2
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A Thing So little a thing as Mr Dryden	O
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MR POPE HIS POLITICS RELIGION MORALS	B2
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MR POPE is an open and mortal enemy to his country and the commonwealth	D3
of learning Some call him a Popish Whig which is directly	D2
inconsistent Pope as a papist must be a Tory and	D2
High flyer He is both a Whig and Tory	D2
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He hath made it his custom to cackle to more than one party in their own	O
sentiments	B2
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In his miscellanies the persons abused are the King the Queen his	B2
late Majesty both Houses of Parliament the Privy Council the Bench of	E2
Bishops the Established Church the present Ministry c To make sense	B2
of some passages they must be construed into royal scandal	D2
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He is a popish rhymester bred up with a contempt of the Sacred	D2
Writings His religion allows him to destroy heretics not only	D2
with his pen but with fire and sword and such were all those unhappy	D2
wits whom he sacrificed to his accursed popish principles It	D2
deserved vengeance to suggest that Mr Pope had less infallibility than	O
his namesake at Rome	C
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MR POPE ONLY A VERSIFIER	D2
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The smooth numbers of the Dunciad are all that recommend it nor has it	D2
any other merit It must be owned that he hath got a notable knack	E3
of rhyming and writing smooth verse	B2
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MR POPE'S HOMER	D2
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The Homer which Lintot prints does not talk like Homer but like Pope	O2
and he who translated him one would swear had a hill in Tipperary for	D2
his Parnassus and a puddle in some bog for his Hippocrene He has	B2
no admirers among those that can distinguish discern and judge	C3
He hath a knack at smooth verse but without either genius or good	D2
sense or any tolerable knowledge of English The qualities which	W2
distinguish Homer are the beauties of his diction and the harmony of his	B2
versification But this little author who is so much in vogue has	B2
neither sense in his thoughts nor English in his expressions	B2
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MR POPE UNDERSTOOD NO GREEK	A3
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He hath undertaken to translate Homer from the Greek of which he knows	B2
not one word into English of which he understands as little I	K2
wonder how this gentleman would look should it be discovered that he	D2
has not translated ten verses together in any book of Homer with justice	B2
to the poet and yet he dares reproach his fellow writers with not	D2
understanding Greek He has stuck so little to his original as to	D2
have his knowledge in Greek called in question I should be glad to	D2
know which it is of all Homer's excellencies which has so delighted the	I
ladies and the gentlemen who judge like ladies	B2
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But he has a notable talent at burlesque his genius slides so naturally	D2
into it that he hath burlesqued Homer without designing it	D2
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MR POPE TRICKED HIS SUBSCRIBERS	B2
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'Tis indeed somewhat bold and almost prodigious for a single man to	D2
undertake such a work but 'tis too late to dissuade by demonstrating	J2
the madness of the project The subscribers' expectations have been	O
raised in proportion to what their pockets have been drained of	E2
Pope has been concerned in jobs and hired out his name to	D2
booksellers	B2
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NAMES BESTOWED ON MR POPE	O2
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An Ape Let us take the initial letter of his Christian name and the	I
initial and final letters of his surname viz A P E and they give you	D2
the same idea of an ape as his face c	D2
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An Ass It is my duty to pull off the lion's skin from this little	D2
ass	B2
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A Frog A squab short gentleman a little creature that like the frog	F3
in the fable swells and is angry that it is not allowed to be as big	G3
as an ox	B2
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A Coward A lurking way laying coward	D2
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A Knave He is one whom God and nature have marked for want of common	O
honesty	D2
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A Fool Great fools will be christened by the names of great poets and	D2
Pope will be called Homer	D2
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A Thing A little abject thing	J2
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INDEX	B2
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OF	E2
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PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM	C
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THE FIRST NUMBER SHOWS THE BOOK THE SECOND THE VERSE	B2
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Ambrose Philips i iii	K2
Attila iii	K2
Alaric iii	K2
Alma Mater iii	K2
Annius an antiquary iv	E2
Arnall William ii	K2
Addison ii	K2
Atterbury iv	E2
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Blackmore Sir Richard i ii	K2
Bezaleel Morris ii iii	K2
Banks i	K2
Broome ibid	D2
Bond ii	K2
Brown iii	K2
Bladen iv	E2
Budgel Esq ii	K2
Bentley Richard iv	E2
Bentley Thomas ii	K2
Boyer Abel ii	K2
Bland a gazetteer i	K2
Breval J Durant ii	K2
Benlowes iii	K2
Bavius ibid	D2
Burmannus iv	E2
Benson William Esq iii iv	E2
Burgersdyck iv	E2
Boeotians iii	K2
Bruin and Bears i	K2
Bear and Fiddle i	K2
Burnet Thomas iii	K2
Bacon iii	K2
Barrow Dr iv	E2
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Cibber Colley Hero of the Poem passim	C
Cibber sen i	K2
Cibber jun iii	K2
Caxton William i	K2
Curll Edm i ii c	D2
Cooke Thomas ii	K2
Concanen Matthew ii	K2
Centlivre Susannah ii	K2
Caesar in Aegypt i	K2
Chi Ho am ti Emperor of China iii	K2
Crousaz iv	E2
Codrus ii	K2
Congreve ii	K2
Chesterfield iv	E2
	-
Defoe Daniel i ii	K2
Defoe Norton ii	K2
De Lyra or Harpsfield i	K2
Dennis John i ii iii	K2
Dunton John ii	K2
D'Urfey iii	K2
Dutchmen ii iii	K2
Doctors at White's i	K2
Douglas iv	E2
Ducket iii	K2
	-
Eusden Laurence Poet Laureate i	K2
Evans Dr ii	K2
	-
Flecknoe Richard ii	K2
Faustus Dr iii	K2
Fleetwood iv	E2
Freemasons iv	E2
French Cooks iv	E2
	-
Gay ii iii	K2
Gildon Charles i	K2
Goode Barn iii	K2
Goths iii	K2
Gazetteers i ii	K2
Gregorians and Gormogons iv	E2
Garth ii	K2
Genseric iii	K2
Gordon Thomas iv	E2
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Holland Philemon i	K2
Hearne Thomas iii	K2
Horneck Philip iii	K2
Haywood Eliza ii c	D2
Howard Edward i	K2
Henley John the Orator ii iii c	D2
Huns iii	K2
Heywood John i	K2
Harpsfield i	K2
Hays iv	E2
Heidegger i	K2
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John King i	K2
James I iv	E2
Jacob Giles iii	K2
Janssen a gamester iv	E2
Jones Inigo iii	K2
Johnston iv	E2
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Knight Robert iv	E2
Kuster iv	E2
Kirkall ii	K2
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Lintot Bernard i ii	K2
Laws William ii	K2
Log King i lin ult	D2
Locke iii	K2
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More James ii c	D2
Morris Bezaleel ii iii	K2
Mist Nathaniel i	K2
Milbourn Luke ii	K2
Mahomet iii	K2
Mears William ii iii	K2
Motteux Peter ii	K2
Monks iii	K2
Mandevil ii	K2
Morgan ibid	D2
Montalto iv	E2
Mummius an antiquary iv	E2
Milton iii	K2
Murray iv	E2
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Newcastle Duchess of i	K2
Nonjuror i	K2
Newton iii	K2
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Ogilby John i	K2
Oldmixon John ii	K2
Ozell John i	K2
Ostrogoths iii	K2
Omar the Caliph iii	K2
Owls i iii	K2
Owls Athenian iv	E2
Osborne bookseller ii	K2
Osborne mother ii	K2
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Prynne William i	K2
Philips Ambrose i iii	K2
Paridel iv	E2
Prior ii	K2
Popple iii	K2
Pope iii	K2
Pulteney iv	E2
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Quarles Francis i	K2
Querno Camillo ii	K2
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Ralph James i iii	K2
Roome Edward iii	K2
Ripley Thomas iii	K2
Ridpath George i ii	K2
Roper Abel ii	K2
Rich iii	K2
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Settle Elkanah i iii	K2
Smedley Jonathan ii c	D2
Shadwell Thomas i iii	K2
Scholiasts iv	E2
Silenus iv	E2
Sooterkins i	K2
Swift i ii iii	K2
Shaftesbury iv	E2
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Tate i	K2
Theobald or Tibbald i	K2
Tutchin John ii	K2
Toland John ii iii	K2
Tindal Dr ii iii iv	E2
Taylor John the Water Poet iii	K2
Thomas Mrs ii	K2
Tonson Jacob i ii	K2
Thorold Sir George i	K2
Talbot iv	E2
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Vandals iii	K2
Visigoths iii	K2
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Walpole late Sir Robert praised by our author ii	K2
Withers George i	K2
Wynkyn de Worde i or	D2
Ward Edw i ii	K2
Webster ii	K2
Whitfield ibid	D2
Warner Thomas ii	K2
Wilkins ibid	D2
Welsted Leonard ii iii	K2
Woolston Thomas iii	K2
Wormius iii	K2
Wasse iv	E2
Walker Hat bearer to Bentley iv	E2
Wren Sir C iii	K2
Wyndham iv	E2
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Young Ed ii	K2

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