So fhall each hoftile name become our own, REMARK S. VERSE 132. And we too beast our Garth and Addifon.] Nothing is more remarkable than our author's love of praifing good writers. He has celebrated Sir Ifaac Newton, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Congreve, Mr. WycherJey, Dr. Garth, Mr. Walsh, Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Addison, Lord Lansdown, in a word, almost every man of his time that deferved it. It was very difficult to have that pleafure in a poem on This fubject, yet he found means to infert their panegyrick, and here has made even Dulnefs out of her own mouth pronounce it. It must have been particularly agreeable to him to celebrate Dr. Garth; both as his conftant friend thro' life, and as he was his predeceffor in this kind of Satire. The Difpenfary attack'd the whole Body of Apothecaries, a much more ufeful one undoubtedly than that of the bad Poets (if in truth this can be call'd a Body, of which no two members ever agreed.) It alfo did what Tibbald fays is unpardonable, drew in parts of private character, and introduced perfons independent of his Subject Much more would Boileau have incurr'd his cenfure, who left all fubjects whatever on all occafions, to fall upon the bad Poets; which it is to be fear'd wou'd have been more immediately.His.con cern. VERSE 134. Ruful length of face.] "The decripid person or figure of a man are no reflections on his Genius: An honeft mind will love and efteem a man of worth, tho' he be deform'd or poor. Yet the author of the Dunciad hath libell'd a person for his ruful length of Face!" MIST's JOURN. June 8. This Genius and man of worth whom an honeft mind fhould love, is Mr. Curl. True it is, he ftood in the Pillory, an accident which will lengthen the face of any man tho' it were ever fo comely, therefore is no reflection on the natural beauty of Mr. Curl. But as to reflections on any man's Face or Figure, Mr. Dennis faith excellently, "Natural deformity comes not by our fault, 'tis often occafioned by calamities and difeafes, which a man can no more help, than a monster can his deformity. There is no one misfortune, and no one difeafe, but what all the rest of men are fubject to. But the deformity of this Author is vifible, prefent, lafting, unalterable, and peculiar to himself: it is the mark of God and Nature upon him, to give us warning that we should hold no fociety with him, as a creature not of our original, nor of our fpecies: And they who have refufed to take this warning which God and Nature have given them, and have in spite of it by a fenfelefs prefumption, ventur'd to be familiar with him, have feverely fuffer'd, &c. 'Tis certain his original is not from Adam, but from the Devil," &c. DENIS and GILDON: Charact. of Mr. P. 8, 1716. It is admirably obferv'd by Mr. Dennis against Mr. Law, p. 33. That the language of Bllingfgate can never be the language of "Charity, nor confequently of Chriftianity. "I should elfe be tempted to ufe the language of a Critick: For what is more provoking to a Commentator, than to behold his author thus pourtrayed? Yet confider it really hurts not Him; whereas malicioufly to call fome others 135 A fhaggy Tap'ftry, worthy to be spread On Codrus' old, or Dunton's modern bed; REMARK S. X others dull, might do them prejudice with a world too apt to believe it. Therefore tho' Mr. D. may call another a little afs or a young toad, far be it from us to call him a toothless lion, or an old ferpent. Indeed, had I written thefe notes (as was once my intent) in the learned language, I might have given him the appellations of Balatro, Calceatum caput, or Scurra in triviis, being phrafes in good efteem, and frequent ufage among the beft learned: but in our mother-tongue were I to tax any Gentleman of the Dunciad, furely it fhould be in words not to the vulgar intelligible, whereby chriftian charity, decency, and good accord among authors, might be preferved. VERSE 135. A fhaggy Tap'firy] A forry kind of Tapestry frequent in old Inns, made of worfted or fome coarfer ftuff: like that which is fpoken of by Dr. Donne Faces a frightful as theirs who whipt Chrift in old hangings. The imagery woven in it alludes to the mantle of Cloanthus in An. s. VERSE 136. On Codrus' old, or Danton's modern bed.] Of Codrus the Poet's bed fee Juvenal, defcribing his poverty very copiously. Sa 3 v. 302. c. Lectus erat Codro, &c. Codrus had but one bed, fo fhort to boot, That his fhort Wife's fhort legs hung dangling out: His cupboard's head fix earthen pitchers grac'd Dryd, But Mr. C. in his dedication of the Letters, Advertisements, &c. to the Author of the Dunciad, affures us, that Juvenal never fa"tyrized the poverty of Codrus." John Dunton was a broken Bookfeller and abufive fcribler: he writ Neck or nothing, a violent fatyr on fome Minifters of State; The dan ger of a death-bed repentance, a libel on the late Duke of Devonshire and on the R. Rev. Bishop of Peterborough, &c. IMITATIONS. VERSE 133. -piteous of his cafe, Rifit pater optimus illi. Me liceat cafum miferare infontis amici Virg. Æn. S Inftructive work! whose wry-mouth'd portraiture Earless on high, ftood unabash'd Defoe, 140 And Tutchin flagrant from the fcourge, below: 145 And oh! (he cry'd) what ftreet, what lane, but knows REMARK S. VERSE 140. And Tutchin flagrant from the scourge ] John Tutchin, author of fome vile verfes, and of a weekly paper call'd the Obfervator: He was fentenc'd to be whipp'd thro' feveral towns in the weft. of England, upon which he petition'd King James II. to be hanged. When that Prince died in exile, he wrote an invective against his memory, occafioned by fome humane Elegies on his death. He liv'd to the time of Queen Anne. VERSE 141. There Ridpath, Roper.] Authors of the Flying-Post and Peft-Boy, two fcandalous papers on different fides, for which they equally and alternately were cudgell'd, and deferv'd it. VERSE 143. Himself among the ftorieds chiefs he fpies, &c.] The Hif tory of Curl's being tofs'd in a blanket, and whipp'd by the fcholars of Westminster, is ingenioufly and pathetically related in a poem entituled Neck or Nothing. Of his purging and vomiting, fee A full and true account of a horrid revenge on the body of Edm. Curl, &c. IMITATIONS. VERSE 143. Himself among the ftoried chiefs he spies, &c, Virg. En. I. Se quoq; principibus permixtum agnovit Achivis Conftitit & lacrymans. Quis jam locus, inquit, Achate! Qua regio in terris noftri non plena laboris ? VERSE 148. And the fresh vomit run for ever green.] A parody on thefe of a late noble author. His bleeding arm had furnish'd all their rooms, And run for ever purple in the looms. See in the circle next, Eliza plac'd; 150 Two babes of love clofe clinging to her wafte; Fair as before her works fhe ftands confefs'd, In flow'rs and pearls by bounteous Kirkall dress'd. 153 The Goddefs then: "Who beft can send on high "The falient spout, far-ftreaming to the sky; "His be yon Juno of majestic fize, "With cow-like-udders, and with ox-like eyes. REMARK S. VERSE 149. See in the circle next, Eliza plac'd.] In this game is expos'd in the moft contemptuous manner, the profligate licentioufnels. of thofe fhameless fcriblers (for the most part of That fex, which ought leaft to be capable of fuch malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both. fexes, to the ruin or difturbance, of publick fame or private happinefs. Our good Poet, (by the whole caft of his work being obliged not to take off the Irony) where he cou'd not show his Indignation, hath fhewn his conten pt as much as poffible; having here drawn as vile a picture, as could be reprefented in the colours of Epic poefy. SCRIBLERUS. VERSE 149. Eliza Haywood.] This woman was authorefs of thofe moft fcandalous books, call'd The Court of Carimania, and The new Utopia. For the two Babes of Love, See CURL, Key, p. 22. But whatever reflection he is pleas'd to throw upon this Lady, furely 'twas what from him the little deterv'd, who had celebrated his undertak ings for Reformation of Manners, and declared her felf" to be perfectly acquainted with the fweetness of his defpofition, and that tendernefs with which he confider'd the errors of his fellow-creatures, that tho' the should find the little inadvertencies of her own life recordedin his papers, he was certain it would be done in fuch a manner as the could not but approve, Mrs. HAYWOOD, Hift. of Clar printed in the Female Dunciad, p. 18. VERSE 152. Kirkall, the Name of a Graver, This Lady's Werks were printed in four Volumes dood, with her picture thus drefs'd up, before them. IMITATIONS. VERSE 150. Two babes of love clofe clinging to her wafte.) Virgi n. s. Creffa genus, Phole, geminique sub ubere nati, VERSE 15s. --- •This Juno - In allusion to Homer's Beŵ715 πÓTVIL Hen. "This China-Jordan, let the chief o'ercome 158 "Replenish, not ingloriously, at home. Chetwood and Curl accept the glorious ftrife, (Tho' one his fon diffuades, and one his wife) This on his manly confidence relies, That on his vigor and superior size. 165 First Chetwood lean'd againft his letter'd poft; Thus the fmall jett which hafty hands unlock, REMARK S. VERSE 159. Chetwood the name of a Bookfeller, whofe Wife was faid to have as great an influence over her husband, as Boilean's Perruquire. See Lutrin, Cant, 2. -Henry Curl, the worthy son of his father Edmund. IMITATIONS. VERSE 157. This China Jordan, &c.] Virg. Æn. 5. Tertius, Argolica hac galea contentus abito. VERSE ibid, This China Jordan,] In the games of Homer II. 23 there are fet together as prizes, a Lady and a Kettle; as in this place," Mrs. Haywood and a Jordan. But there the preference in value is gi ven to the Kettle, at which Mad Dacier is juftly difpleas'd: Mrs. H. here is treated with distinction, and acknowledg'd to be the more valuable of the two. VERSE 163. This on his manly confidence relies, That on his vigor.] Virg. Æn. 5. Ille melior motu, fretufque juventa, Hic membris & mole valens VERSE 167. So Jove's bright box Sure fign words of Homer of the Rain-bow, in Iliad 11. ΐς τε Κρονίων Εν νεφει σήριξε, τερας μερόπων ανθρώπων. 14The Which Mad. Dacier thus renders, Arcs merveil leux, que le fils de Saturn a fondez dans les nues, po cire dans tous les ages un figne a tous les mortels. |