antipathies for him; and the following lines, hardly less celebrated than those on Addison, are the result.

Line 350. The tale revived, etc. As that he received subscriptions to Shakespear, that he set his name to Mr. Broome's verses, etc., which, though publicly disproved, were nevertheless repeated in the libels. (Pope.)

Line 351. Th' imputed trash. This imputed trash, such as profane psalms, court poems, and other scandalous things, printed in his name by Curll and others. (Pope.)

Line 365. Knight of the post corrupt. The socalled Knights of the Post stood about the sheriff's pillars near the courts, in readiness to swear anything for pay. (Ward.)

Line 371. Friend to his distress. In 1733 Pope wrote a prologue to a play given for the benefit of Dennis, who was then old, blind, and not far from death.

Line 374. Ten years. It was so long after many libels before the author of the Dunciad published that poem, till when he never writ a word in answer to the many scurrilities and falsehoods concerning him. (Pope.)

Line 375. Welsted's lie. This man had the impudence to tell in print that Mr. P. had occasioned a lady's death, and to name a person he never heard of. (Pope.)

Line 379. Budgell was charged with forging a will, with profit to himself.

Lines 382-387. Pope has a long note on this passage, in which he goes much into detail to prove the respectability of his parents.

Line 391. Bestia. L. Calpurnius Bestia, who here seems to signify the Duke of Marlborough, was a Roman proconsul, bribed by Jugurtha into a dishonorable peace. (Ward.)

Line 393. Discord in a noble wife. Dryden had married Lady Howard, and Addison the Countess of Warwick.

Line 397. He was a non-juror, and would not take the oath of allegiance or supremacy, or the oath against the Pope. (Bowles.)

Line 417. Dr. Arbuthnot had been the favorite physician of Queen Anne.

Page 182. SATIRES, EPISTLES AND ODES OF HORACE IMITATED. First Satire, Second Book. Line 6. Lord Fanny. Lord Hervey.

Line 23. Sir Richard. Sir Richard Black

more.

Lines 30, 31. Carolina. Queen Caroline. Amelia. Princess Amelia, second daughter of George II.

Line 34. Their Laureate. Colley Cibber.
Line 40. Peter. Peter Walter.

Line 46. Scarsdale his bottle, Darty his hampie. Lord Scarsdale and Charles Dartineuf, famous epicures.

Line 49. Fox. Probably Henry Fox, First Lord Holland. Hockley-hole. There was a noted bear-garden at Hockley-in-the-Hole. See the Spectaor, No 436.

Line 52. Shippen. William Shippen, an outspoken politician and a Jacobite, who was sent to the Tower in 1718. According to Coxe, he used to say of himself and Sir Robert Walpole,

'Robin and I are two honest men; though he is for King George and I for King James.' (Ward.)

Line 81. Slander or poison dread. Alluding to a notorious rumor that a Miss Mackenzie had been poisoned by the Countess of Deloraine. Line 82. Page. Judge Page. See Epilogue to Satires, II. 36.

Line 100. Lee. Nathaniel Lee (1657-1692), a tragic poet, author of The Rival Queens.

Line 129. He whose lightning, etc. Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, who in the year 1705 took Barcelona, and in the winter following, with only 280 horse and 900 foot, enterprised and accomplished the conquest of Valencia. (Pope.)

Line 153. Sir Robert. Walpole.

Page 184. Second Satire, Second Book.
Mr. Bethel. Hugh Bethel.

Line 25. Oldfield. This eminent glutton ran through a fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a year in the simple luxury of good eating. (Warburton.)

Line 42. Bedford-head. A famous eatinghouse in Covent Garden.

Line 49. Avidien. Edward Wortley Montagu, the husband of Lady Mary. (Carruthers.) Line 175. Shades that to Bacon, etc. Gorhambury, near St. Albans, the seat of Lord Bacon, was at the time of his disgrace conveyed by him to his quondam secretary, Sir J. Meantys, whose heir sold it to Sir Harbottle Grimston, whose grandson left it to his nephew (Wm. Lucklyn, who took the name of Grim. ston), whose second son was in 1719 created Viscount Grimston. This is the 'booby lord' to whom Pope refers. (Ward.)

Line 177. Proud Buckingham's, etc. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. (Pope.) The estate of Helmsley was purchased by Sir Charles Duncombe, Lord Mayor in 1709, who changed its name to Duncombe Park. (Carruthers.)

Page 187. First Epistle, First Book.

Line 6. Modest Cibber, etc. Colley Cibber retired from the stage after a histrionic career of more than forty years in 1733; but returned in 1734 and did not make his positively last appearance' till 1745. (Ward.)

Line 16. You limp, like Blackmore on a Lord Mayor's horse. The fame of this heavy Poet, however problematical elsewhere, was universally received in the City of London. His versification is here exactly described: stiff and not strong; stately and yet dull, like the sober and slow-paced Animal generally employed to mount the Lord Mayor: and therefore here humorously opposed to Pegasus. (Pope.)

Line 51. Cheselden. In answer to Swift's inquiry who this Cheselden' was, Pope informed him that C. was the most noted and most deserving man in the whole profession of chirurgery, and had saved the lives of thousands' by his skill. There is an amusing letter from Pope to Cheselden in Roscoe's Life ad ann. 1737; speaking of the cataract to which v. 52 appears to allude. (Ward.)

Line 85. Sir John Barnard.

Line 89. Bug and D*l, etc. The meaning of this line has not been determined.

Line 112. Augustus Schutz. See Glossary. Line 173. Hale. Dr. Hale of Lincoln's Inn Fields, a physician employed in cases of insanity. (Carruthers.)

Line 177. Guide, Philosopher, and Friend. Lord Bolingbroke. See Essay on Man, IV. 390.

Page 189. Sixth Epistle, First Book.

The poem is dedicated to William Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield. See Glossary. Line 1. Not to admire, etc.

'Nil admirari prope res una, Numici,

Solaque, quae possit facere et servare beatum.'

Horace.

The translation is, as Pope admits, that of Richard Creech, translator of Homer and Lucretius.

Line 45. Craggs's. James Craggs's father had been in a low situation; but by industry and ability, got to be Postmaster-General and agent to the Duke of Marlborough. For James Craggs's own career, see Glossary.

Line 53. Hyde. Lord Clarendon, greatgrandfather of the Lord Cornbury mentioned in line 61 below.

Line 64. Tindal. See Pope's note on The Dunciad, II. 399.

Line 82. Anstis, whom Pope often mentions, was Garter King of Arms. (Bowles.)

Line 87. Or if three ladies like a luckless play. The common reader, I am sensible, will be always more solicitous about the names of these three Ladies, the unlucky Play, and every other trifling circumstance that attended this piece of gallantry, than for the explanation of our Author's sense, or the illustration of his poetry; even where he is most moral and sublime. But had it been in Mr. Pope's purpose to indulge so impertinent a curiosity, he had sought elsewhere for a commentator on his writings. (Warbur ton.) Notwithstanding this remark of Dr. Warburton, I have taken some pains, though indeed in vain, to ascertain who these ladies were, and what the play they patronized. It was once said to be Young's Busiris. (Warton.)

Line 121. Kinnoul's lewd cargo, etc. Lords Kinnoul and Tyrawley, two ambassadors noted for wild immorality. (Carruthers.)

Line 126. Wilmot. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. See Glossary.

Page 191. First Epistle, Second Book.

Line 38. Beastly Skelton. Skelton, Poet Laureate to Henry VIII., a volume of whose verses has been lately reprinted, consisting almost wholly of ribaldry, obscenity, and scurrilous language. (Pope.) This judgment of Skelton is of course unfair.

Line 40. Christ's Kirk o' the Green. A ballad by James I. of Scotland.

Line 42. The Devil. The Devil Tavern, where Ben Jonson held his Poetical Club. (Pope.)

Line 66. Look in Stowe. Stowe's Annals of England appear to have been first published in 1580. (Ward.)

Line 91. Gammer Gurton. Gammer Gurton's Needle, according to Pope a piece of very low

humour, one of the first printed plays in English, and therefore much valued by some antiquaries. The earliest extant edition bears the date 1575, but it was probably first printed at least thirteen years before this.

Line 92. The Careless Husband. By Colley Cibber.

Line 109. Sprat, Carew, Sedley. Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, Thomas Carew, and Sir Charles Sedley; all poets of the Restoration.

Line 142. A verse of the Lord Lansdown. (Pope.)

Lines 143-146. In horsemanship-urit romance. The Duke of Newcastle's book of Horsemanship; the romance of Parthenissa, by the Earl of Orrery; and most of the French romances translated by persons of quality. (Pope.)

Line 153. On each enervate string, etc. The Siege of Rhodes by Sir William Davenant, the first opera sung in England. (Pope.)

Line 182. Ward. A famous Empiric, whose Pill and Drop had several surprising effects. and were one of the principal subjects of writing and conversation at this time. (Pope.) Line 197. Peter. Peter Walter.

Line 224. The rights a Court attacked, a poet saved. A reference to Swift's services as a pamphleteer, particularly as author of the Drapier's Letters. Line 289.

Glossary.

Van. John Vanbrugh.

See

Line 290. Astræa. Mrs. Aphra Behn. Line 293. Poor Pinky. William Pinkethman, a low comedian.

Line 313. From heads to ears, and now from ears to eyes. From plays to operas, and from operas to pantomimes. (Warburton.)

Line 319. Old Edward's armour, etc. A spectacle presenting the Coronation of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn was produced in 1727 to celebrate the coronation of George II. and had a run of forty nights. The playhouses,' says Pope, vied with each other to represent all the pomp of a coronation. In this noble contention, the armour of one of the Kings of Eng land was borrowed from the Tower, to dress the Champion.'

Line 331. Quin — Oldfield. James Quin and Mrs. Oldfield, the most popular comedians of their age.

Line 355. Merlin's Cave. A building in the Royal Gardens of Richmond, where is a small but choice collection of books. (Pope.)

Line 372. Dubb'd historians. The office of Historiographer Royal,' says Ward, was fre quently united to that of Poet Laureate.'

Line 382. Great Nassau, William II. Line 387. Quarles. Francis Quarles, author of the Emblems.

Line 413. This line, according to Carruthers, is quoted from an anonymous poem printed in Tonson's Miscellany in 1709.,

Line 417. Eusden, Philips, Settle. Lau rence Eusden, Ambrose Philips, and Elkanah Settle.

Page 197. Second Epistle, Second Book. Line 1. Colonel. Colonel Cotterell of Rousham, near Oxford. (Warton.)

Line 4. This lad, sir, is of Blois. A town in Beauce, where the French tongue is spoken in great purity. (Warburton.) It will be recalled that it was to Blois that Addison went to learn French.

Line 24. Sir Godfrey. Sir Godfrey Kneller. (Warburton.)

Line 57. Maudlin's learned grove. Magdalen College, Oxford University.

Line 70. Ten Monroes. Dr. Monroe, physician to Bedlam Hospital. (Pope.)

Line 87. Oldfield - Dartineuf. Two noted gluttons. See Book II. Satire i. 46.

Line 113. Tooting-Earl's-court. Two villages within a few miles of London. (Pope.)

Lines 132-135. Murray - Cowper - Talbot. William Murray, afterward Lord Mansfield; William, first Earl Cowper; Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury.

Line 139. Merlin's Cave. See note on Book II. Epistle 1, 355.

Line 140. Stephen. Stephen Duck.

Line 218. Golden angels. A golden coin given as a fee by those who came to be touched by the royal hand for the Evil. (Warton.)

Line 220. When servile Chaplains cry, etc. The whole of this passage alludes to a dedication of Mr., afterwards Bishop, Kennet to the Duke of Devonshire, to whom he was chaplain. (Burnet.)

Lord

Lord

Line 240. Heathcote. Sir Gilbert Heathcote. Line 273. Townshend - Grosvenor. Townshend, Sir Thomas Grosvenor. Townshend is said to have introduced the turnip into England from Germany.

Line 274. Bubb. Bubb Dodington.

Line 277. Oglethorpe. James Edward Oglethorpe.

Page 202. SATIRES OF DONNE VERSIFIED. Satire II. Line 6. Sappho. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Line 36. Sutton. Sir Robert Sutton, expelled from the House of Commons on account of his share in the frauds of the company called the Charitable Corporation. (Carruthers.)

Line 80. Paul Benfield, a parliamentary financier, is suggested by Carruthers as the person here meant.

Page 204. Satire IV. Line 30. Sloane Woodward. Sir Hans Sloane, a natural historian; and John Woodward, founder of a chair of Geology in Cambridge University.

Line 73. Hoadley. Bishop Hoadley, here sarcastically referred to on account of his loyalty to the House of Hanover. (Ward.)

Line 95. Aretine. The Florentine poet who composed certain ill-favored sonnets to illustrate some designs of Giulio Romano.

Line 135. Holinsheds, or Halls, or Stowes. Tudor chroniclers.

Line 177. Umbra. Bubb Dodington. Line 178. Fannius. Lord Hervey, whom Pope elsewhere calls Lord Fanny.'

Line 206. Court in War. A famous show of the Court of France, in wax-work. (Pope.)

Line 213. At Fig's, at White's. White's was a noted gaming-house; Fig's, a prizefighter's Academy, where the young nobility received instruction in those days. It was also customary for the nobility and gentry to visit the condemned criminals in Newgate. (Pope).

Line 274. Hung with deadly sins. The room hung with old tapestry, representing the seven deadly sins. (Pope.) Page 208. EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES. Dialogue I.

Lines 1-2. These two lines are from Horace; and the only two lines that are so in the whole poem; being meant to be a handle to that which follows in the character of an impertinent Censurer, 'Tis all from Horace, etc. (Pope.)

Line 13. Sir Billy.

Sir William Yonge. Line 14. Huggins. Formerly jailer of the Fleet prison; enriched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled. (Pope.)

Line 24. Patriots. This appellation was generally given to those in opposition to the court. Though some of them (which our author hints at) had views too mean and interested to deserve that name. (Pope.)

Line 26. The great man. A phrase by common use appropriated to the First Minister. (Pope.)

Line 39. A Joke on Jekyl. Sir Joseph Jekyl, Master of the Rolls, a true Whig in his principles, and a man of the utmost probity. He sometimes voted against the Court, which drew upon him the laugh here described of ONE who bestowed it equally upon Religion and Honesty. He died a few months after the publication of this poem. (Pope.)

Line 51. Sejanus, Wolsey. The one the wicked minister of Tiberius; the other, of Henry VIII. The writers against the Court usually bestowed these and other odious names on the Minister, without distinction, and in the most injurious manner. See Dial. II. v. 137. (Pope.)

Fleury. Cardinal: and Minister to Louis XV. It was a Patriot-fashion, at that time, to cry up his wisdom and honesty. (Pope.)

Line 66. Henley - Osborne. See them in their places in The Dunciad. (Pope.)

Line 68. Sir William Yonge, not, as Bowles conjectures to be possible, Dr. Edward Young, author of The Night Thoughts, although to the latter Dodington (Bubo) was a constant friend. (Ward.)

Line 69. The gracious Dew. Alludes to some court sermons, and florid panegyrical speeches ; particularly one very full of puerilities and flatteries; which afterwards got into an address in the same pretty style; and was lastly served up in an Epitaph, between Latin and English, published by its author. (Pope.) An Epi taph' on Queen Caroline was written by Lord Hervey, and an address moved in the House of

Commons (the Senate) on the occasion by H. Fox. (Carruthers.)

Line 75. Middleton and Bland. Dr. Conyers Middleton, author of a Life of Cicero. Dr. Bland, of Eton, according to Burnet a very bad writer.

Line 78. The Nation's Sense.' Warburton says this was a cant phrase of the time.

Line 80. Carolina. Queen Caroline, died in 1737.

Line 92. Selkirk - Delaware. Pope's note would seem to apply to the names here suggested: A title [was] given that lord by King James II. He was of the Bedchamber to King William; he was so to George I.; he was so to George II. This lord was very skilful in all the forms of the House, in which he discharged himself with great gravity.'

Line 120. Japhet. Japhet Crook.
Line 121.

Peter. Peter Walter.

Line 123. If Blount. Author of an impious and foolish book called The Oracles of Reason, who being in love with a near kinswoman of his, and rejected, gave himself a stab in the arm, as pretending to kill himself, of the consequence of which he really died. (Pope.)

Line 124. Passeran ! Author of another book of the same stamp, called A Philosophical Discourse on Death, being a defence of suicide. He was a nobleman of Piedmont, banished from his country for his impieties, and lived in the utmost misery, yet feared to practise his own precepts; and at last died a penitent. (Warburton.)

Line 125. But shall a Printer, etc. A fact that happened in London a few years past. The unhappy man left behind him a paper justifying his action by the reasonings of some of these authors. (Pope.)

Line 129. This calls the Church to deprecate our Sin. Alluding to the forms of prayer, composed in the times of public calamity; where the fault is generally laid upon the People. (Warburton.) Page 210. Dialogue II. Line 11. Ev'n Guthry. The Ordinary of Newgate, who publishes the memoirs of the Malefactors, and is often prevailed upon to be so tender of their reputation, as to set down no more than the initials of their name. (Pope.)

Line 39. Wretched Wild. Jonathan Wild, a famous thief, and thief-impeacher, who was at last caught in his own train, and hanged. (Pope.)

Line 57. Ev'n Peter trembles only for his ears. Peter [Walter] had, the year before this, narrowly escaped the Pillory for forgery: and got off with a severe rebuke only from the bench. (Pope.)

Line 66. Scarb'row. Earl of, and Knight of the Garter, whose personal attachment to the king appeared from his steady adherence to the royal interest, after his resignation of his great employment of Master of the Horse; and whose known honour and virtue made him esteemed by all parties. (Pope.) He committed suicide in a fit of melancholy in 1740; and was mourned by Lord Chesterfield as the best man he ever

knew, and the dearest friend he ever had." (Ward.)

Line 67. Esher's peaceful Grove. The housË and gardens of Esher in Surrey, belonging to the Honourable Mr. Pelham, Brother of the Duke of Newcastle. The author could not have given a more amiable idea of his Character than in comparing him to Mr. Craggs. (Pope.)

Line 88. Wyndham. Sir William Wyndham, Line 99. The Man of Ross. See Moral Essays. Epistle III. lines 240-290. My Lord Mayor. Sir John Barnard.

Line 132. St. John. Lord Bolingbroke.

Line 133. Sir Roberts. Sir Robert Walpole. Line 158. Sherlock, Dr. William, Dean of St. Paul's, and the bête noire of the non-jurors in the reign of William III. (Ward.)

Line 160. The bard. Bubb Dodington, who wrote a poem to Sir Robert Walpole from which the following line is quoted.

Line 164. The Priest, etc. Pope disclaims any allusion to a particular priest, but the passage is understood to refer to Dr. Alured Clarke, who wrote a fulsome panegyric to Queen Caroline.

Line 166. The florid youth. Lord Hervey. Alluding to his painting himself. (Bowles.) Lines 185-186. Japhet - Chartres. See the epistle to Lord Bathurst. (Pope.)

Line 222. Cobwebs. Weak and light sophistry against virtue and honour. Thin colours over vice, as unable to hide the light of truth, as cobwebs to shade the sun. (Pope.)

Line 228. When black Ambition, etc. The course of Cromwell in the civil war of England; (line 229), of Louis XIV. in his conquest of the Low Countries. (Pope.)

Line 231. Nor Boileau turn the feather to a star. See his Ode on Namur; where (to use his own words) 'il a fait un Astre de la Plume blanche que le Roy porte ordinairement à son chapeau, et qui est en effet une espèce de Comète, fatale à nos ennemis. (Pope.)

Line 236. Anstis. The chief Herald at Arms. It is the custom, at the funeral of great peers, to cast into the grave the broken staves and ensigns of honour. (Pope.)

Line 238. Stair. John Dalrymple, Earl of Stair, Knight of the Thistle; served in all the wars under the Duke of Marlborough; and afterwards as Ambassador in France. (Pope.) Bennet, who supplies the blanks in v. 239 by the names of Kent and Grafton, has some notion that Lord Mordington kept a gaminghouse.' (Ward.)

Lines 240, 241. Hough - Digby. Dr. John Hough, Bishop of Worcester, and the Lord Digby. The one an assertor of the Church of England in opposition to the false measures of King James II. The other as firmly attached to the cause of that King. Both acting out of principle, and equally men of honour and virtue. (Pope.)

Line 255. Ver. 255 in the MS.

'Quit, quit these themes, and write Essays on Man.' This was the last poem of the kind printed by

our author, with a resolution to publish no more; but to enter thus, in the most plain and solemn manner he could, a sort of PROTEST against that insuperable corruption and depravity of manners, which he had been so unhappy as to live to see. Could he have hoped to have amended any, he had continued those attacks; but bad men were grown so shameless and so powerful, that Ridicule was become as unsafe as it was ineffectual. The Poem raised him, as he knew it would, some enemies; but he had reason to be satisfied with the approbation of good men, and the testimony of his own conscience. (Pope.)

Page 214. BOOK SECOND, SIXTH SATIRE. IMITATED AFTER SWIFT.

Line 84. October next it will be four. Swift is recalling the length of his service of the Tory Party.

Line 85. Harley. Earl of Oxford.

Line 125. At this point Pope's part in the imitation begins.

Page 216. THE SEVENTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.

Line 67. Child. Sir Francis Child, the banker. (Bowles.)

Page 217. THE FIRST ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF HORACE.

Line 8. Number five. The number of Murray's lodgings in King's Bench Walk.

Page 225. THE DUNCIAD. Book I.

Line 1. The Mighty Mother, etc., in the first Edd. it was thus:

'Books and the Man I sing, the first who brings The Smithfield Muses to the ear of Kings,' etc.

(Pope.)

Line 2. The Smithfield Muses. Smithfield is the place where Bartholomew Fair was kept, whose shows, machines, and dramatical entertainments, formerly agreeable only to the taste of the Rabble, were, by the Hero of this poem and others of equal genius, brought to the Theatres of Covent-garden, Lincolns-inn-fields, and the Haymarket, to be the reigning pleasures of the Court and Town. This happened in the reigns of King George I. and II. See Book III. (Pope.) Line 30. Monroe. Physician to Bedlam Hospital.

Line 31. His famed father. Caius Cassius Cibber, father of Colley Cibber; a sculptor in a small way. The two statues of the lunatics over the gate of Bedlam Hospital were done by him,' says Pope, and (as the son justly says of them) are no ill monuments of his fame as an artist.'

Line 40. Lintot's rubric post. Lintot, according to Pope, usually adorned his shop with titles in red letters.'

Line 41. Hence hymning Tyburn's elegiac lines. It is an ancient English custom for the Malefactors to sing a Psalm at their execution at Tyburn; and no less customary to print Elegies on their deaths, at the same time, or before. (Pope.)

Line 42. Magazines. The common name of

'New born nonsense first is taught to cry;'

at others, dead-born Scandal has its monthly funeral, where Dulness assumes all the various shapes of Folly to draw in and cajole the Rabble. The eruption of every miserable Scribbler; the scum of every dirty News-paper; or Fragments of Fragments, picked up from every Dunghill, under the title of Papers, Essays, Keflections, Confutations, Queries, Verses, Songs, Epigrams, Riddles, etc., equally the disgrace of human Wit, Morality, Decency, and Common Sense. (Pope and Warburton.)

Line 44. New-year Odes. Made by the Poet Laureate for the time being, to be sung at Court on every New-year's day, the words of which are happily drowned in the voices and instruments. (Pope.)

Line 57. Jacob. Jacob Tonson.

Line 63. Clenches. Puns. Pope has a long note citing a punning passage from Dennis aimed at himself.

Line 86. In the former Editions,

Line 98. Heywood. John Heywood, whose interludes were printed in the time of Henry VIII. (Pope.)

Line 103.

Prynne, William, sentenced in 1633 to a fine, the pillory, and imprisonment for his Histriomastix. Defoe was similarly punished for his Shortest Way with the Dissenters. Line 103. Daniel. Daniel Defoe.

Line 104. Eusden. Laurence Eusden, Poet Laureate before Cibber.

Line 108. Bayes's. The name of Theobald (Tibbald) stood here originally. This of course stands for Cibber.

Line 126. Sooterkins. False births. (Ward.) Line 134. Hapless Shakespear, etc. It is not to be doubted but Bays was a subscriber to Tibbald's Shakespear. He was frequently liberal this way; and, as he tells us, subscribed to Mr. Pope's Homer, out of pure Generosity and Civility; but when Mr. Pope did so to his Nonjuror, he concluded it could be nothing but a joke.' Letter to Mr. P., p. 24.

This Tibbald, or Theobald, published an edition of Shakespear, of which he was so proud himself as to say, in one of Mist's Journals, June 8,That to expose any Errors in it was impracticable.' And in another, April 27, 'That whatever care might for the future be taken by any other Editor, he would still give above five hundred emendations, that shall escape them all.' (Pope.)

Line 141. Ogilby. Originally dancing master,