Note a — POEM.
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(a) It is surely allowable to treat a Man after this manner who abuses all others, and to make this just Reflexion, since in his new Dunciad he not only calls Mummius a Fool, but uses this filthy Expression—who stinks above the Ground.
(b) See this farther explained in the ingenious Dialogues of Sawney and Colley.
(c) Tho’ he was informed that Wreck was improper, yet he was resolv’d it should be inscrib’d, because the Nonsense was in his Edition of Shakespear.
(d) When he sent his Homer to his Acquaintance for their Emendations, it was written on the Back of the Letters of his Correspondents, whether of Business, Complement or Secrecy. A shameful Instance of Avarice and Treachery!
(e) Vide Notes on the new Dunciad.
(f) Goddess of Dullness.
(g) He writ a vile Lampoon on Mr. Addison, and then in a Preface owns, he deserves Respect from every Lover of Learning.
(h) Vide Spencer’s Fate of the Butterfly.
(i) Vide a Poem on Taste.
(k) Vide Cibber’s Letter to Pope.