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The Dunciad, Variorum THE DUNCIAD, V A R I O R V M. WITH THE PROLEGOMENA of SCEZBEERIW. o H 1-1 % N H O N b O P &i x o 2? i> o jst. Printed for A. Dod. 172,9. PIECES contained in this BOO K. JL HE Publisher's Advertisement. A Letter to the Publiflier, occafioned by the prefent Edition of the DuNCI AD. The Prolegomena of Martinus Scriblerus. Testimonies of Authors concerning our Poet and his Works, A Dissertation of the Poem. Dunciados Periocha: Or, Arguments to the Books. The D U N C I A D, in three Books. Notes Variorum: Being the Scholia of the learned M. S c r i b l e r u s and Others, with the Adverfaria of John Dennis, Lewis Theobald, Edmund Curl, the Journalists, &c. Index of Persons celebrated in this Poem. Index of Things (including Authors) to be found in the Notes. Appendix, ADVERTISEMENT. $ will be fuffieient tofay -of this Edition, that the reader has here a much more correcJ and compkat copy of the Dunciad, than has. I hitherto appeared : I cannot anjwer butfame mi/lakes may haveflipt into it, but a vafi number of 'Others will be prevented, by the Names being authorities gi^ .now not onlyfetat length, but jujtifed by the and reafons *oen. I make no doubt, the Author's own motive to ufi real rather than feign d names, was his care to preferve the Innocent from any falfe Ap plications ; whereas in the former editions which had no more than the Initial letters, be was made, by Keys printed here, to hurt the inoffen- fhe; and (what was worfe) to abufe his friends, by an impreffion at Dublin. The Commentary which attends the Poem, was fent me from feveral hands, and confequently mufl be unequally written-, yet will it have one advantage over mojl commentaries, that it is not made upon conjectures vr a remote dijlance of time: and the reader cannot but derive one plea- Jitre from the very Obfcurity ef the perfons it treats of, that it partakes of the nature of a Secret, which mojl people love to be let into, thd the Men or the Things be ever fo inconjiderable or trivial. Of the Perfons it was judg'd proper to give fome account : for Jince it is only in this monument that they mujl expect -to furvive, (and here furvive they will, as long as the Englijh tongue Jhall remain fuch as it was in the reigns of Queen Anne and King George) it feem'd but to be/low a word or two upon humanity each, jujl to tell what he was, what he writ, when he liv'd, or when he dfd. a word or two more are added upon the Offenders 'tis If chief , 'only as a faper pinrid upon the breajl, to mark the Enormitiesfor which they a 2 Advertisement. fufferd; left the Correction only Jhould be remember% and the Crime forgotten. In fome Articles^ it was thought fufficient barely to tranfcribe from much' Jacob, Curl, and other writers of their own rank, who were better acquai?ited with them than any of the Authors of this Comment can pretend to be. Mojl of them had drawn each other s Characters on certain occajions ; but the few here inferted, are all that could be faved from the general deftruBion offuch Works. Of the part of Scriblerus / need fay nothing : his Manner is well concern' enough known,. and approvd by all but thofe who are too much d to be judges. gratify- The Imitations of the .Ancients,are added., to thofe who either never read,, or have forgotten may them; together with fome of the Pa and Alluftons to the excellent rodies, moft of the Moderns. If any man the the from frequency of former, may think the Poem too much a CentOj; our Poet will but appear to have done the fame thing in jeft, which Boileau did in and upon which earneft ; Vida, Fracaftorius, and many ofthe moft'. eminent Latin Poets profejjedly valued themjehes.. A 5 A LETT E R T O T H E FU B L IS HER, Occafionect by the prefent Edition of the D UN CI AD. IT is with- pleafure I hear that you have procured a d$- ebrrect Edition of the Dungt a which -the many have^ fiirreptitibus ones rendered ^fb neceflary ; I and it is yet ; with- Morej that I anr informed- it wilbbe afrr tended with a C om m e? n t a %y■ : a: work fo InecefTary, that ihimfdf" I cannot think the Author would:haver omit ted it,, had he approved of Ithe; firflu appearance of this. ' •..•;.- ■ ;•<■'; Poem. , ■.<. Such Notes as have occurr'd to me I herewith fend you ;:, you- will oblige me by inferring them, •amongft.- thofe which are, or will be, tranfmitted* to. you by others :-. not the Authors, butx even., fince only friends^ Grangers, , appear ingag'd by humanity,- to fome care, of an orgham A LETTER of fo much genius and fpirit, which its parent feems to have abandoned from the very beginning, and furTered to flep into the world naked, unguarded, and unat r7: tended. r /-. ; i . It was upOn reading fome of the abufive papers late ly publifh'd, that my great regard to a perfon whofe friendfhip I fhall ever efteem as one of the chief honours of my life, and a much greater refpe<& to Truth^an to him or man any living, ingag'-d main Enquiries, ofWhich the inclos'd Notes axe the fruit. I perceiv'd, that moA of fhefe authors had been (4oubtlefs wkely)|- very $e£ffl A^greners : they had try'd ^ till were t©^ they weary, what was be got by railing at each other ;, no body was either concern'd, or furpriz'd, if this or that Scribler was provd a Dunce : but every one was curious to rea4 what could be laid to prove Mr. Pofe om* and was, ready to paj Something for fuch a difcovery: A ftrata^em which wou'd they fairly own* not might only reconcile them to me, but fcreen them from the refentment of their lawful Superior whom (as they daily abufe, only I charitably hope) to get that by them, which they cannot get from them. I found this was not all: ill fuccefs in that had trans ported them to perfonal abufe, either of himfelf, or (what I think he could lefs forgive) of his friends. They had call'd men of virtue and honour Bad Men, long before he had either leifure or inclination to call them to the Publisher. Bad Writers: and fome had been fuch did offenders* that he had quite forgotten their perfons as well as their flanders, till they were pleas'd to revive them. Now what had Mr. Pope done before to incenfethem? Hk had publifli'cL thofe; works which are in the hands of every body, in which not the leaft mention is made 6£ any of them : And what has he done fince? He has laugh; d and written the D u n c i & d* What, has that faid of them? a very ferious truth which, the publick had faid that before, they were dull:, and what it had no fooner laid, but they themfelves; were at great pains to procure or even purchafe room in the prints,, to teftify under their Bands to the truth o£ it*. I mould ftill have been filent, if either I had feel* inclination in any my friend to be ferious with fuch ac^ or if cufersi they had onfy attack'd his writings :; fince whoever puts himfelf on publimes, his tryalby his coun ty. But when moral: his character, was attack'd, and a manner which: in from: neither Truth nor Virtue can: Secure the moft Innocent, > in a manner ; which, though annihilates the credit of it the accufatian with the mil and impartial, yet aggravates very much;the guilt. of the aecufer, (I mean, by authors without Names :): Then "the I thought, fince danger is commonito.rail,, the con cern ought to be fo ; and that it was an ad: of juf- - tice to detecl: the , not on this Authors, only account „ but as many of them are the farne^ who, for Several. 8 A L-ETT EJt * years paft, have- made free with . the igreatef-b:Naraes! iri Church and State, expos'd to the world the. -private misfortunes of Families, abus'd all even to Women, and whcfe proftituted papers (for one or other Party, jnthe un infultedF happy Divifions of their Country) have the ;• Fallen, the Friendlefs, the Exil'd, and . the:DeaB» Befides this, which I take to be a publick concern, I have^already confefs'd I had a private one. M-am one of that hiimber who Tiave long lov'd and efteern'd. Mr* : and had often,: declared it was not Pope, hjs ; Capacity or. Writings (which,we.ever thought the leaft valuable part ofrhis; charaitoi): jDutlth&ihojieft, ojjen;* and beneficent Man, that we moft efteem-d and lov'd in dura. -■ Now if what theSe people fay were Jbeliev'd, Tbruit appear to allmy friends either a fool or a either knave, impos'd\on my felf, . or impbfing ; on them.: So that; I am as much in7 terefted in the confutation of thefe calumnies, as he is ' ■ himSelf. ■.->-•; -.■■'[ I am no Author, and confequently riot to be fufpedt- ;either of ed jealoufy or refentment againft any of the men, of whom fcarce one is known to me by fight- and as their for writings, I have fought them (on this one in occafion) vain, in the clofets;and libraries, of all my acquaintance.
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