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for A. Moore, 1728. price I s. Others of an elder date, having lain as wafte paper many years, were upon the publication of the Dunciad brought out, and their Authors betrayed by the mercenary Bookfellers (in hope of fome poffibility of vending a few) by advertising them in this manner The Confederates, a Farce, by Capt. Breval, (for which he is put into the Dunciad.) An Epilogue to Powel's Puppetfow, by Col. Ducket, (for which he is put into the Dunciad) Effays, &c. by Sir Rich. Blackmore. N. B. It is for a paffage in pag. of this book that Sir Richard was put into the Dunciad.) And fo of others.

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After the DUNCIA D, 1728.

N Effay on the Dunciad, 8°. printed for 7. Roberts. [In this book, pag. 9. it was formally declared, That the complaint of the aforefaid Pieces, Libels, "and Advertisements, was forged and untrue, that all "mouths had been filent except in Mr. Pope's praife, and nothing against him publish'd, but, by Mr. THEOBALD. price 6 d.

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Sawney, in blank Verfe, occafion'd by the Dunciad, with a Critique on that Poem. [By J. Ralph, a perfon never mention'd in it at firft, but inferted after this.] printed for 7. Roberts. 8°. price I s.

A compleat Key to the Dunciad, by E. Curl, 12o. price 6 d.

A fecond and third Edition of the fame, with Addi

tions. 120.

The Popiad, by E. Curl, extracted from 7. Dennis, Sit R. Blackmore, &c. price 6 d.

The Female Dunciad, collected by the fame Mr. Curl, 12° price 6 d. With the Metamorphofis of Pinto a ftinging Nettle, [by Mr. Foxton.] 12o.

The Metamorphofis of Scriblerus into Snarlerus, [by F. Smedley.] printed for A. Moore. Folio. price 6 d.

The Dunciad diffected, or Farmer P. and his Son, by Curl, 12°.

An Effay on the Tafte and Writings of the prefent times, faid to be writ by a Gentleman of C. E. C.* Oxon. printed for 7. Roberts, 8°.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetorick, partly taken from Bouhours, with new Reflections, &c. [by John Oldmixon:] 8°

A. Supplement to the Profund, Anon. [By Matthew Concanen.] 8o.

Mift's Weekly Journal, June 8. A long Letter fign'd W. A. [Dennis, Theobald, and others.]

Daily Journal, June 11. A Letter fign'd Philofcriberus, on the name of Pope. Letter to Mr. Theobald in Verfe, fign'd B. M. againft. Mr. P Many other little Epigrams about this time in the fame papers, [by James Moore and others.]

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Mift's Journal, June 22. A Letter by Lewis Theobald.
Flying-poft, Auguft 8. Letter on Pope and Swift.
Daily Journal, Auguft 8 Letter charging the Author of

the Dunciad with Treafon.

Durgen, A plain Satyr on a pompous Satyrift. [By Edw. Ward, with a little of James Moore.]

Labeo, [a Paper of Verfes written by Leonard Welfted.] Gulliveriana Secunda, Being a collection of many of the Libels in the News papers, like the former Volume under the fame title, by Smedley. Advertised in the Craft man, Nov. 9, 1728. with this remarkable promife, that any thing which any body fhould fend as Mr. Pope's or "Dr. Swift's, fhou'd be inferted and publifhed as Theirs."

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FTER dyuerfe Werkes, made tranflated and achieued, hauyng noo werke in hande I fittyng in my ftudye where as laye many dyuerfe paunflettes and bookys. happened that to my hande cain a lytlyl booke in frenthe. which late was tranflated oute of latyn by fome noble clerke of fraunce whiche booke is named Eneydos (made in latyn by that noble poete & grete clerke Vyrgyle) whiche booke I fawe over and redde therein. Howe after the generall deftruccyon of the.

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grete Troye, Eneas departed berynge his olde fader anchifes upon his fholdres, his lytyl fon yolas on his hande. his wyfe wyth moche other people followynge, and how she fhipped and departed wyth alle thyftorye of his aduentures that he had er he cam to the atchieument of his conqueft of ytalye as all alonge fhall be fhewed in this prefent booke. In whiche booke I had grete playfyr. by cause of the fayr and honeft termes & wordes in frenshe Whyche I neuer fawe to fore lyke. ne none fo playfaunt ne fo wel ordred, whiche booke as me femed fholde be moche requyfyte to noble men to fee as wel for the eloquence as the hiftoryes. How wel that many hondred yerys paffed was the fayd booke of Eneydos wyth other workes made and lerned dayly in fcolis fpecyally in ytalye and other places, whiche hiftorye the fayd Vyrgyle made in metre, And whan I had aduyfed me in this fayd booke. Idelybered and concluded to tranflate it in to englyfhe. And forthwyth toke a penne and ynke and wrote leef or tweyne, whyche I ouerfawe agayn to corecte it, And whan I fawe the fayr & ftraunge termes therein, I doubted that it fholde not please fome gentylmen whiche late blamed me fayeng that in my tranflacyons I had ouer curyous termes whiche coude not be vnderstande of comyn peple, and defired me to vfe olde and homely termes in my tranflacyons. and fayn wolde I fatysfye cuery man, and fo to doo toke an 'olde boke and redde therein, and certay nly the englyfhe was fo rude and brood that I coude not wele vnderftande it. And also my lorde Abbot of Weftmynfter ded do fhewe to me. certayn euydences wryton in olde englyfhe for to reduce it in to our englyfhe now vfid, And certaynly it was wryton in fuche wyfe that it was more lyke to dutche than englyfhe I coude not reduce ne brynge it to be vnderftonden, And certaynly our langage now vfed varyeth ferre from that whiche was vfed and spoken whan I was borne, For we englyfhe men, ben borne vnder the domynacyon of the mone. whiche is neuer ftedfafte, but euer waterynge, wexynge one feafon, and waneth & lyfcreafeth another feafon, And that comyn englyfhethat is spoken in one fhyre varyeth from another. In fo

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moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchants were in a fhip in Tamyfe for to haue fayled ouer the fee into Zelande, and for lacke of wynde thei taryed atte forlond. and wente to lande for to refreshe them. And one of theym named Sheffelde a mercer cam in to an hows and axed for mete. and fpecyally he axyd after eggys, And the goode wyf anfwerde. that the coude fpeke no frenfhe. And the merchant was angry. for he alfo coude fpeke no frenfhe. but wolde haue hadde egges, and fhe vnderftode hym not, And thenne at laste another fayd that he wolde haue eyren, then the good wyf sfayd that she vnderftod hym wel, Loo what fholde a man in thyfe dayes now wryte. egges or eyren, certaynly it is harde to playfe every man, by caufe of dyuerfite & change of langage. For in thefe dayes euery man that is in ony reputacyon in his contre. wyll vtter his comynycacyon and maters in fuche maners & termes, that fewe men fhall vnderstonde theym, And fome honest and grete clerkes haue ben wyth me and defired me to wryte the mofte curyous termes that I coude fynde, And thus bytwene playn rude, & curyous I ftande abafhed. but in my Judgemente, the comyn termes that be dayli vfed ben lyghter to be vnderftonde than the olde and ancyent englyfhe, And for as moche as this prefent booke is not for a rude uplondybe man to laboure therein, ne rede it, but onely for a clerke & a noble gentylman that feleth and vnderftondeth in faytes of armes in loue & in noble chyualrye, Therefore in a meane betwene bothe I haue reduced & tranflated this fayd booke in to our englyfhe not ouer rude ne curyous but in fuche termes as fhall be vnderftanden by goddys grace accordynge to my copye. And yf ony man wyll enter mete in redyng of hit and fyndeth fuche termes that he can not vnderftande late hym goo rede and lerne Vyrgyll, or the pyftles of Ouyde, and ther he fhall fee and vnderftonde lyghtly. all, Yf he haue a good redar & enformer, For this booke is not for euery rude and vnconnynge man to fee, but to clerkys & very gentylmen that understande gentylnes and fcience. Thenne I praye alle theym that Thall rede in this lytyl treatys to holde me for excused

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