Fair as before her works she stands confess'd, A shaggy tapestry, worthy to be spread REMARKS. Osborne and Curll accept the glorious strife Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, not him! whereas to call some others dull, might do them being phrases in good esteem and frequent usage among the best learned: but in our mother-tongue, were I to tax Through half the heavens he pours the exalted urn any gentleman of the Dunciad, surely it would be in words His rapid waters in their passage burn. not to the vulgar intelligible; whereby christian charity, decency, and good accord among authors, might be preserved. Scribl. REMARKS. 170 181 The good Scriblerus here, as on all occasions, eminently shows his humanity. But it was far otherwise with the profligate licentiousness of those shameless scribblers (for gentlemen of the Dunciad, whose scurrilities were always personal, and of that nature which provoked every honest Han but Mr. Pope; yet never to be lamented, since they occ.sioned the following amiable verses: While malice, Pope, denies thy page While critics, and while bards in rage, While wayward pens thy worth assail, These times, though many a friend bewail, But when the world's loud praise is thine, When none shall rail, and every lay That day (for come it will,) that day the most part of that sex which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who, in libellous memoirs and novels, reveal the faults or misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin of public fame, or disturbance of private happiness. Our good poet (by the whole cast of his work being obliged not to take off the irony) where he could not show his indig nation, hath shown his contempt, as much as possible having here drawn as vile a picture as could be represented in the colours of epic poesy. Scribi. Ibid. Eliza Haywood; this woman was authoress of those most scandalous books called the Court of Carimanis, and the New Utopia. For the two babes of love, see Curll, Key, p. 22. But whatever reflection he is pleased to throw upon this lady, surely it was what from him she little deserved, who had celebrated Curll's undertakings for refor mation of manners, and declared herself to be so perfectly acquainted with the sweetness of his disposition, and that tenderness with which he cons.dered the errors of his fellow creatures, that, though she should find the little inadvertencies of her own life recorded in his papers, she was certain it would be done in such a manner as she could not but approve.' Mrs. Haywood, list of Clar. printed in the Female Dunciad, p. 18. Ver. 160. Kirkall] The name of an engraver. Some of this lady's works were printed in four volumes in 12mo, with her picture thus dressed up before them. Ver. 143. A shaggy tapestry;] A sorry kind of tapestry frequent in old inns, made of worsted or some coarser stuff'; like that which is spoken of by Denne.-Faces as frightful as theirs who whip Christ in old hangings. This imagery Ver. 167. Osborne, Thomas] A bookseller in Gray's woven in it alludes to the mantle of Cloanthus, in En. v. Inn, very well qualified by his impudence to act this part; Ver. 144. John Dunton was a broken bookseller, and therefore placed here instead of a less deserving predeces abusive scribbler; he writ Neck or Nothing, a violent satire sor. [Chapman, the publisher of Mrs. Haywood's New on some ministers of state; a libel on the duke of Devon- Utopia, &c.] This man published advertisements for a shire, and the bishop of Peterborough, &e. year together, pretending to sell Mr. Pope's subscription Ver. 148. And Tutchin flagrant from the scourge.] John books of Homer's Iliad at half the price; of which book be Tutchin, author of some vile verses, and of a weekly paper had none, but cut to the size of them (which was quarto) called the Observator. He was sentenced to be whipped the common books in folio, without copper-plates, on a through several towns in the west of England, upon which worse paper, and never above half the value. he petitioned king James II. to be hanged. When that Upon this advertisement the Gazetteer harangued thus, prince died in exile, he wrote an invective against his me-July 6, 1739; 'How melancholy must it be to a writer to be mory, occasioned by some humane elegies on his death. He so unhappy as to see his works hawked for sale in a manner lived to the time of queen Anne. so fatal to his fame. How, with honour to yourself, and Ver. 149. There Ridpath, Roper,] Authors of the Fly-justice to your subscribers, can this be done? What an ining-post and Post-boy, two scandalous papers on different gratitude to be charged on the only honest poet that lived in sides, for which they equally and alternately deserved to be 1738! and than whom virtue has not had a shriller trumpeter cudgelled, and were so. for many ages! That you were once generally admired and esteemed, can be denied by none; but that you and your works are now despised, is verified by this fact;' which being utterly false, did not much indeed humble the author, but drew this just chastisement on the bookseller. Ver. 151. Himself among the storied chiefs he spies.] The history of Curll's being tossed in a blanket, and whip ped by the scholars of Westminster, is well known. Of his purging and vomiting, see A full and true Account of a horrid Revenge on the Body of Edmund Curll, &c. in Swift's and Pope's Miscellanies. Ver. 183. Through half the heavens he pours the exalted urn;] In a manuscript Dunciad (where are some marginal Ver. 157. See in the circle next, Eliza placed.] In this corrections of some gentlemen some time deceased) I have name is exposed, in the most contemptuous manner, the found another reading of these lines; thus, Swift as it mounts, all follow with their eyes: Still happy impudence obtains the prize. Thou triumph'st victor of the high-wrought day, And the pleased dame, soft smiling, lead'st away. Osborne, through perfect modesty o'ercome, Crown'd with the jordan, walks contented home. But now for authors nobler palms remain ; Room for my lord! three jockeys in his train; Six huntsmen with a shout precede his chair: He grins, and looks broad nonsense with a stare. His honour's meaning Dulness thus express'd, 'He wins his patron who can tickle best." He chinks his purse, and takes his seat of state: With ready quills the dedicators wait; Now at his head the dexterous task commence, And, instant, fancy feels the imputed sense; Now gentle touches wanton o'er his face, He struts Adonis, and affects grimace: Rolli the feather to his ear conveys, Then his nice taste directs our operas: Bentley his mouth with classic flattery opes, And the puff'd orator bursts out in tropes. But Welsted most the poet's healing balm Strives to extract from his soft, giving palm; REMARKS. Unlucky Welsted! thy unfeeling master, 191 What force have pious vows! the queen of love 220 Now turn to different sports,' the goddess cries, And lifts his urn, through half the heavens to flow; H's rapid waters in their passage glow.' 1 nis I cannot but think the right: for, first, though the difference between burn and glow may seem not very material to others, to me I confess the latter has an elegance, a je ne say quoy, which is much easier to be conceived than explained. Secondly, every reader of our poet must have observed how frequently he uses this word, glow, in other parts of his works: to instance only in his Homer: (1) Iliad ix. ver. 726.-With one resentment glows. (2) Ilind xi. ver 626--There the battle glows. (3.) Ibid. ver. 985.--The closing flesh that instant ceased to glow. (4.) Iliad xii. ver. 45--Encompass'd Hector glows. 5.) Ibid. ver. 475.--His beating breast with generous ardour glows. (6.) Iliad xviii. ver. 591.-Another part glow'd with refulgent arms. (7.) Ibid. ver. 654.-And curl'd on silver props in order glow. I am afraid of growing too luxuriant in examples, or I could stretch this catalogue to a great extent; but these are enough to prove his fondness for this beautiful word, which, therefore, let all future editions replace here. 230 240 Now thousand tongues are heard in one loud din, The monkey-mimics rush discordant in: 'Twas chattering, grinning, mouthing, jabbering all, And noise and Norton, brangling and Breval, Dennis and dissonance, and captious art, And snip-snap short, and interruption smart ; And demonstration thin, and theses thick, And major, minor, and conclusion quick. 'Hold,' cried the queen, 'a cat-call each shall win; Equal your merits! equal is your din! But that this well-disputed game may end, Sound forth, my brayers, and the welkin rend. As when the long-ear'd milky mothers wait At some sick miser's triple-bolted gate, For their defrauded, absent foals they make A moan so loud, that all the guild awake; Sore sighs sir Gilbert, starting at the bray, From dreams of millions, and three groats to pay: So swells each wind-pipe: ass intones to ass, Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass; 250 I am aware, after all, that burn is the proper word to convey an idea of what was said to be Mr. Corll's condition at this time; but from that very reason I infer the direct Contrary. For surely every lover of our author will conclude he had more humanity than to insult a man on such a misfortune or calamity, which could never befall him purely by his own fault, but from an unhappy communication with mole, by the author of the ensuing simile, which was handanother. This note is half Mr. Theobald, hair Scribl. Ver. 203. Paolo Antonio Rolli,] An Italian poet and writer of many operas in that language, which, partly by the help of his genius, prevailed in England near twenty years. He taught Italian to some fine gentlemen, who affected to direct the operas. Ver. 205. Bentley his mouth, &c.] Not spoken of the famous Dr. Richard Bentley, but of one Tho. Bentley, a small critic, who aped his uncle in a little Horace. The great one was intended to be dedicated to the lord Halifax, but fon a change of the ministry) was given to the earl of Oxford: for which reason the little one was dedicated to his son the lord Harley. REMARKS. ed about at the same time: 'Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole You have him again in book iii. ver. 169. Ver. 207. Welsted.] Leonard Welsted, author of the Ver. 226. With thunder rumbling from the mustard. Triumvirate, or a Letter in Verse from Palemon to Celia bowl.] The old way of making thunder and mustard were at Bath, which was meant for a satire on Mr. P. and some the same: but since, it is more advantageously performed by of his friends about the year 1718. He writ other things troughs of wood with stops in them. Whether Mr. Dennis which we cannot remember. Smedley, in his Metamorpho was the inventor of that improvement, I know not; but it is is of Scriblerus, mentions one, the Hymn of a Gentleman to certain, that being once at a tragedy of a new author, he fell his Creator: and there was another, in praise either of a into a great passion at hearing some, and cried, "Sdeath. Celter or a Garret. L. W. characterized in the Isp. Baous, that is my thunder.' or the Art of Sinking, as a didapper, and after as an eel, is Ver. 238. Norton,] See ver. 417-J. Durant Breval, said to be this person, by Dennis, Daily Journal of May 11, author of a very extraordinary book of travels, and some 1723. He was also characterized under another animal, al poems. See before, note on ver. 126. This labour past, by Bridewell all descend (As morning-prayers and flagellation end,) To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes! than whom no sluice of mud 260 With deeper sable blots the silver flood. Such as from labouring lungs the enthusiast blows, REMARKS. 270 'Here strip, my children, here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well. Who flings most filth, and wide pollutes around REMARKS. Ver. 258. Webster-and Whitfield] The one the writer of a newspaper called the Weekly Miscellany, the other a field-preacher. This thought the only means of advancing religion was by the new-birth of spiritual madness; that by of argumentation is usual with Mr. Dennis; he has employ the old death of fire and faggot; and therefore they agreed ed the same against sir Richard himself, in a like charge of in this, though in no other earthly thing, to abuse all the soAll Mr. Blackmore's celestial ber clergy. From the small success of these two extraordi- machines, as they cannot be defended so much as by comimpiety and irreligion. nary persons, we may learn how little hurtful bigotry and mon received opinion, so are they directly contrary to the enthusiasm are, while the civil magistrate prudently forbears doctrine of the church of England; for the visible descent to lend his power to the one, in order to the employing it of an angel must be a miracle. Now it is the doctrine of the against the other. church of England that miracles had ceased a long time beVer. 263. Long Chancery-lane] The place where the fore prince Arthur came into the world. Now if the doctrine office of chancery are kept. The long detention of clients of the church of England be true, as we are obliged to bein the court, and the difficulty of getting out, is humour-lieve, then are all the celestial machines in Prince Arthur ously al egorized in these lines. Ver. 268. Who sings so loudly, and who sings so long] bability. But if the machines are sufferable, that is, if they unsufferable, as wanting not only human, but divine proA just character of sir Richard Blackmore, knight, who (as have so much as divine probability, then it follows of neces Mr. Dryden expresseth it) sity that the doctrine of the church is false. So I leave it to every impartial clergyman to consider,' &c. Preface to the Remarks on Prince Arthur. 'Writ to the rumbling of his coach's wheels; and whose indefatigable muse produced no less than six epic poems; Prince and King Arthur, twenty books; Eliza, ten; Ver. 270. (As morning prayers and flagellation end.)] It Alfred, twelve; the Redeemer, six; besides Job, in folio; the is between eleven and twelve in the morning, after church whole book of Psalms; the Creation, seven books; Nature service, that the criminals are whipped in Bridewell. This of Man, three books; and many more. It is in this sense he is to mark punctually the time of the day: Homer does it is styled afterwards the everlasting Blackmore. Notwith-by the circumstance of the judges rising from court, or of standing all which, Mr. Gildon seems assured, 'that this ad- the labourers' dinner: our author by one very proper both to mirable author did not think himself upon the same foot the persons and the scene of his poem, which we may re with Homer.-Comp. Art of Poetry, vol. i. p. 108. member commenced in the evening of the lord-mayor's day. But how different is the judgment of the author of Cha-The first book passed in that night; the next morning the racters of the Times? p. 25, who says, 'Sir R. Blackmore is games begin in the Strand, thence along Fleet-street (places unfortunate in happening to mistake his proper talents; and inhabited by booksellers,) then they proceed by Bride well that he has not for many years been so much as named, or toward Fleet-ditch, and lastly through Ludgate to the city, even thought of among writers.' Even Mr. Dennis differs and the temple of the goddess. greatly from his friend Mr. Gildon: Blackmore's action,' Ver. 280. The Weekly Journals] Papers of news and saith he, has neither unity, nor integrity, nor morality, nor scandal intermixed, on different sides and parties, and fre universality; and consequently he can have no fable, and no quently shifting from one side to the other, called the Lonheroic poem: his narration is neither probable, delightful, don Journal, British Journal, Daily Journal, &c., the connor wonderful; his characters have none of the necessary cealed writers of which for some time were Oldmixon, qualifications; the things contained in his narration are nei- Roome, Arnall, Concunen, and others; persons never seen ther in their own nature delightful, nor numerous enough, by our author. nor rightly disposed, nor surprising, nor pathetic.' Nay, he Ver. 283. In naked majesty Oldmixon stands,] Mr. proceeds so far as to say sir Richard has no genius; first John Oldmixon, next to Mr. Dennis, the most ancient critic laying down, that 'genius is caused by a furious joy and of our nation; an unjust censurer of Mr. Addison in his prose pride of soul, on the conception of an extraordinary hint. Essay on Criticism, whom also in his imitation of Bouhours Many men,' says he, have their hints, without those mo- (called the Arts of Logic and Rhetoric) he misrepresents in tions of fury and pride of soul, because they want fire plain matter of fact; for in p. 45, he cites the Spectator as enough to agitate their spirits; and these we call cold abusing Dr. Swift by name, where there is not the least hint writers. Others who have a great deal of fire, but have not of it; and in p. 304, is so injurious as to suggest that Mr. excellent organs, feel the fore-mentioned motions, without Addison himself writ that Tatler, No. 43, which says of his the extraordinary hints; and these we call fustian writers.' own simile, that, 'Tis as great as ever entered into the But he declares, 'that sir Richard had neither the hints nor mind of man.' the motions.'--Remarks on Pr. Arth. octavo, 1696. Preface. In poetry he was not so happy as laborious, and therefore This gentleman in his first works abused the character of characterized by the Tatler, No. 62, by the name of 'Omicron Mr. Dryden; and in his last, of Mr. Pope, accusing him in the Unborn Poet. Curll, Key, p. 13. He writ dramatic very high and sober terms of profaneness and immorality works, and a volume of poetry, consisting of heroic epistles, (Essay on Polite Writing, vol. ii. p. 270) on a mere report &c. some whereof are very well done,' said the great judge, from Elm. Curil, that he was author of a travestie on the Mr. Jacob, in his Lives of Poets, vol. ii. p. 303. first Psalm. Mr. Dennis took up the same report, but with In his Essay on Criticism, and the arts of Logic and the addition of what sir Richard had neglected, an argument Rhetoric, he frequently reflects on our author. But the top to prove it; which being very curious, we shall here tran- of his character was a perverter of history, in that seandascribe. It was he who burlesqued the Psalms of David. It lous one of the Stuarts, in folio, and his Critical History of is apparent to me that psalm was burlesqued by a popish England, two volumes octavo. Being employed by bishop rhymester. Let rhyming persons who have been brought Kennet, in publishing the historians in his collection, he up protestants be otherwise what they will, let them be falsified Daniel's Chronicle in numberless places. Yet this rakes, let them be scoundrels, let them be atheists, yet educa- very man, in the preface to the first of these books, advanced cation has made an invincible impression on them in behalf a particular fact to charge three eminent persons of falsify of the sacred writings. But a popish rhymester has been ing the lord Clarendon's History; which fact has been disbrought up with a contempt for those sacred writings; now proved by Dr. Atterbury, late bishop of Rochester, then the how me another popish rhymester but he.' This manner only survivor of them; and the particular part he pretended He said, and climb'd a stranded lighter's height, Next Smedley dived; slow circles dimpled o'er 290 And monumental brass this record bears, No crab more active in the dirty dance, REMARKS. Ver. 314. Gazetteers!] We ought not to suppose that a 300 modern critic here taxeth the poet with an anachronism, affirming these gazetteers not to have lived within the time of his poem, and challenging us to produce any such paper of that date. But we may with equal assurance assert these gazetteers not to have lived since, and challenge all Surely therefore, where the point is so obscure, our author the learned world to produce one such paper at this day ought not to be censured too rashly. No noise, no stir, no motion canst thou make, REMARKS. 310 Scribl. Notwithstanding this affected ignorance of the good Scriblerus, the Daily Gazetteer was a title given very properly to certain papers, each of which lasted but a day. Into this, as a common sink, was received all the trash which had been before dispersed in several journals, and circulated at the public expense of the nation. The authors were the same obscure men; though sometimes relieved by occasional essays from statesmen, courtiers, bishops, deans, and doctors. The meaner sort were rewarded with money; others with places or benefices, from a hundred to a thousand a year. It appears from the Report of the Secret Committee for inquiring into the Conduct of R. earl of O-, 'That no less than fifty thousand seventy-seven pounds eighteen shillings were paid to authors and printers of newspapers, such as Free Britons, Daily Courants, Corn Cutter's Journals, Gazetteers, and other political papers, between Feb. 10, 1731, and Feb. 10, 1741.' Which shows the benevolence Ver. 291. Next Smedley dived;] In the surreptitious of one minister to have expended, for the current dulness of editions, this whole episode was applied to an initial letter ten years in Britain, double the sum which gained Louis E-, by whom, if they meant the laureat, nothing was more XIV. so much honour, in annual peusions to learned men all absurd, no part agreeing with his character. The allegory over Europe. In which, and in a much longer time, not a evidently demands a person dipped in scandal, and deeply pension at court, nor preferment in the church or universiimmersed in dirty work; whereas Mr. Eusden's writings ties, of any consideration, was bestowed on any man dis rarely offended but by their length and multitude, and ac- tinguished for his learning separately from party-merit, or cordingly are taxed of nothing else in book i. ver. 102. But pamphlet-writing, to be falsified, produced since, after almost ninety years, in that noble author's original manuscript. He was all his life a virulent party-writer for hire, and received his reward in a small place, which he enjoyed to his death. person here mentioned, an Irishman, was author and It is worth a reflection, that of all the panegyrics bestowpublisher of many scurrilous pieces, a weekly Whitehall ed by these writers on this great minister, not one is at this Journal, in the year 1722, in the name of Sir James Baker; day extant or remembered, not even so much credit done to and particularly whole volumes of Billingsgate against Dr. his personal character by all they have written, as by one Swift and Mr. Pope, called Gulliveriana and Alexandriana, short occasional compliment of our author: printed in octavo, 1728, Ver. 295. Then essay'd;] A gentleman of genius and spirit, who was secretly dipped in some papers of this kat, on whom our poet bestows a panegyric instead of a Fabre, as deserving to be better employed than in partyquarrels and personal invectives. Ver. 299. Concinen] Mathew Concanen, an Irishman, bred to the law. Smedley (one of his brethren in enmity to Swift) in his Metamorphosis of Scriblerus, p.7, accuses him of having boasted of what he had not written, but others had revised and done for him.' He was author of several dull and dead scurrilities in the British and London Jour Bals, and in a paper called the Speculatist. In a pamphlet, called a Supplement to the Profound, he dealt very unfairly with our poet, not only frequently imputing to him Mr. Broome's verses (for which he might indeed seem in some degree accountable, having corrected what that gentleman did) but those of the Duke of Buckingham and others: to this rare piece somebody humorously caused him to take for his motto, De profundis clamavi. He was since a scribbler in the Daily Courant, where he poured forth much Billingsgate against the lord Bolingbroke, and others: after which this man was surprisingly promoted to administer justice and law in Jamaica. Ver. 306, 307. With each a sickly brother at his back: Sons of a day, &c.] These were daily papers, a number of which, to lessen the expence, were printed one on the back of another. Ver. 312. Osborne] A name assumed by the eldest and gravest of these writers, who, at last, being ashamed of his pupils, gave his paper ove; and in his age remained silent. 'Seen him I have; but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power! Seen him, uncumber'd by the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.' Ver. 315. Arnall.] William Arnall, bred an attorney, was a perfect genius in this sort of work. He began under twenty with furious party papers: then succeeded Concanen in the British Journal. At the first publication of the Dunciad, he prevailed on the author not to give him his due place in it, by a letter professing his detestation of such practices as his predecessor's. But since, by the most unexampled insolence, and personal abuse of several great men, the poet's particular friends, he most amply deserved a niche in the temple of infamy; witness a paper called the Free Briton, a dedication entitled, To the Genuine Blunderer, 1732, and many others. He writ for hire, and valued himself upon it; not indeed without cause, it appearing, by the aforesaid Report, that he received for Free Britons and other writings, in the space of four years, no less than ten thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven pounds six shillings and eight pence, out of the Treasury. But frequently, through his fury or folly, he exceeded all the bounds of his commission, and obliged his honourable patron to disow his scurrilities. Ver. 323. The plunging prelate, &c.] It having been invidiously insinuated that by this title was meant a truly great prelate, as respectable for his defence of the present balance of power in the civil constitution, as for his opposition to the scheme of no power at all, in the religious; I owe so much to the memory of my deceased friend as to declare, that when, a little before his death, I informed him of When, lo! a burst of thunder shook the flood, Which most conduce to soothe the soul in slumbers, How young Lutetia, softer than the down, 330 340 Then sung, how, shown him by the nut-brown maids, 350 He ceased, and spread the robe; the crowd confess A low-born, cell-bred, selfish, servile band, If there be man, who o'er such works can wake, To cavil, censure, dictate, right or wrong, 371 331 Three college sophs and three pert templars came- Rolls the black troop, and overshades the street, 360 Each gentle clerk, and muttering seals his eyes. 'Ye critics! in whose heads, as equal scales, I weigh what author's heaviness prevails; REMARKS. this insinuation, he called it vile and malicious, as any candid man, he said, might understand, by his having paid a willing compliment to this very prelate in another part of the poem. As what a Dutchman plumps into the lakes, REMARKS. Ver. 397. Thrice Budgel aim'd to speak.] Famous for his speeches on many occasions about the South Sa schemes, &c. He is a very ingenious gentleman, and hata Ver. 349. And Milbourne.] Luke Milbourne, a clergy-written some excellent epilogues to plays, and one smal man, the fairest of critics; who, when he wrote against Mr. Dryden's Virgil, did him justice in printing at the same time his own translations of him, which were intolerable, His manner of writing has a great resemblance with that of the gentlemen of the Duncind against our author, as will be seen in the parallel of Mr. Dryden and him. Ver. 355. Around him wide, &c.] It is to be hoped, that the satire in these lines will be understood in the confined sense in which the author meant it, of such only of the clergy, who, though solemnly engaged in the service of religion, dedicate themselves for venal and corrupt ends to that of ministers or factions; and though educated under an entire ignorance of the world, aspire to interfere in the government of it, and consequently, to disturb and disorder it in which they fall short of their predecessors only by being invested with much less of that power and authority, which they employed indifferently (as is hinted at in the lines above) either in supporting arbitrary power, or in exciting rebellion; in canonizing the vices of tyrants, or in blackening the virtues of patriots; in corrupting religion by superstition, er betraying it by libertinism, as either was thought best to serve the ends of policy, or flatter the follies of the great. piece on Love, which is very pretty.Jacob, Lives of Po ets, vol. ii. p. 289. But this gentleman since made himself much more eminent, and personally well known to be le greatest statesman of all parties, as well as to all the courts of law in this nation. Ver. 399. Toland and Tindal,] Two persons not so happy as to be obscure, who writ against the religion of their country. Toland, the author of the atheist's liturgy, called Pantheisticon, was a spy, in pay to lord Oxford. Tudal was author of the Rights of the Christian Church, and Christianity as old as the Creation. He also wrote an abu sive pamphlet against earl S, which was suppressed while yet in MS. by an eminent person, then out of the m nistry, to whom he showed it, expecting his approbation This doctor afterwards published the same piece, mutatis mutandis, against that very person. Ver. 400. Christ's no kingdom ] This is said by Curl, Key to Dunc. to allude to a sermon of a reverend bishop. Ver. 411. Centlivre.] Mrs. Susanna Centlivre, wife to Mr. Centlivre, yeoman of the mouth to his majesty. She writ many plays, and a song, (says Mr. Jacob, vol. i. p.3 before she was seven years old. She also writ a balad against Mr. Pope's Homer, before he began it. |