Flying Poft, April 13. Verfes againft Dr. Swift, and against Mr. P--'s Homer. By J. Oldmixon.

Daily Journal, April 23. Letter about the translation of the character of Therfites in Homer. By Thomas Cooke, &c.

Mift's Weekly Journal, April 27.

Lewis Theobald.

A Letter of

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

All these were afterwards reprinted in a pamphlet, entitled, A Collection of all the Verfes, Effays, Letters, and Advertisements occafioned 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 waste Paper many years, were, upon the publication of the Dunciad, brought out, and their Authors betrayed by the mercenary Booksellers (in hopes of fome poffibility of vending a few) by advertising them in this manner."The Confederates, a farce. By Capt. Breval (for "which he was put into the Dunciad). An Epilogue 66 to Powel's Puppet-fhow. By Col. Ducket (for "which he was put into the Dunciad). Essays, &c. "By Sir Richard Blackmore. (N. B. It was for a 'passage 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 declar

ed.

ed, "That the complaint of the aforefaid Libels and "Advertisements was forged and untrue: that all "mouths had been filent, except in Mr. Pope's praise; "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 person never mentioned in it at first, but inferted after] printed for J. Roberts, octavo.

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

A fecond and third edition of the fame, with additions, 12mo.

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

The Curliad. By the fame E. Curll.

The Female Dunciad. Collected by the fame Mr. Curll, 12mo. price 6 d. With the Metamorphofis of P. into a stinging 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 Curll and Mrs. Thomas,

12mo.

An Effay on the Taste 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.

Demarks on the Dunciad. By Mr. Dennis, dedito Theobald, octavo.

A Sup

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

Mia's Weekly Journal, June 8. A long letter, figned W. A. Writ by some or other of the club of Theobald, Dennis, Moore, Concanen, Cooke, who for fome time held constant weekly meetings for those kind of performances.

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 fhould be inferted and "published as theirs."

Pope Alexander's fupremacy and infallibility examined, &c. By George Ducket, and John Dennis, quarto.

Dean

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 published by James Moore, quarto, 1730. Another part of it came out in Welfted's own name, under the just title of Dulness and Scandal, folio, 1731.

There have been fince published,

Verfes on the Imitator of Horace. By a Lady [or between a Lady, a Lord, and a Court-Squire.] Printed for J. Roberts, folio.

An Epiftle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divivity, from Hampton-court [Lord H-y]. Printed

for J. Roberts alfo, folio.

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

III.

ADVERTISEMENT

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

IT

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 appeared. I cannot answer but fome mistakes may have flipt into

ta vaft number of others will be prevented by

the

the names being now not only fet at length, but justified by the authorities and reafons given. I make no doubt, the author's own motive to use real rather than feigned names, was his care to preserve the innocent from any false 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 worse) 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 diftance 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 moft people love to be let into, though the men or the things be ever fo inconfiderable or trivial.

Of the Perfons it was judged proper to give some account: for fince it is only in this monument that they must expect to survive (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 feemed but humanity to bestow a word or two upon each, juft to tell what he was, what he writ, when he lived, and when he died.

If a word or two more are added upon the chief offenders, it is only as a paper pinned upon the breast, to mark the enormities for which they suffered; left the

correction