Why, with the Editor, does not the Printer and Bookfeller appear? Where are their Effigies? Why are not Domine W-Ts, Meff. J. and P. K-N, H. L-T, J. and R. T-N and honest S. D-R, exhibited to View in the fame Piece? They have Pretenfions fuperior to his Worfhip,-nor need he be afhamed of their Company; I dare fay they are as well born, and as well bred; neither worse Men, nor worfe Critics; inferior neither in Judgment or Tafte, full as eminent in their Stations; ay, and as Book-learned (the World must allow them to be Men of Letters) and the Author more beholden to them.-A fair Letter and good Paper contribute more to the spreading an Author's Fame, and fet his Works in a clearer Light, than all the laboured Dulness

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of fuch needlefs Notes, as a mock Critic may chance to crowd them with.

But, by the "Will of the Bard, they are become Mr. W's Prothat is, All fuch of the perty; Works as he hath written, or shall write, Commentaries upon."—And he, prudent Man, refolves to lose none of them; whether neceffary or not, they fhall all have their Comments; a fnug Method of enlarging his Property. 'Twas well known the Author had Forefight enough to devise them with this cautionary Injunction; as he shall publish WITHOUT FUTURE ALTERATION,' or, blefs us! what woful Work would this Levite, in his Wantonnefs, have made with the Text? That indeed is undisturbed, we are told; yet, in

his Remarks, he plays as idly and as wildly with it, as a CAT with a Cork;-purrs over it a while,

then hits it a Pat; lets it flip from him,-gets it again; twirls it about, tumbles it over and over; lofes it, and looks foolish: -Ah! poor Pope, how haft thou fubmitted thyself to be mouzled !——What fay you, Mafter W, won't the Simile bear? Prithee don't be chuff,I am but joking,-I am not angry, Man. -But come, bear up, let's

have a little more of this..

The Writer fays, He has not, for the fake of Profit, fuffered the Author's Name to be made cheap, by a Subscription:-No, but he has enlarged the Work with a Vengeance ;—and had all he has cram'd into it been omitted, the Edition would

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would not have been the worse; it had been lefs voluminous, and the Bookfeller might have afforded it at lefs Price. -Oh, but he has embellished them with pretty Pictures— for the Entertainment of Mafters and Miffes ;—at the same time feeding his own Vanity; witness the Frontispiece; and frequently indulging his Spleen, as is feen in many others. But for thefe Specimens of his Tafte in Sculpture, what a Lofs of Entertainment would there have been to his moft juvenile Purchafers? As moderate a Figure as these make in the Eye of the Curious, yet the World generally allows they are much the best Embellishment he has beftowed on them, that which contains his own Profile excepted.-What Improvements he made (as he hints) in the

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Author's moral, and religious Maxims we shall pass over; not chufing to be free with what so immediately relates to the Poet, whofe Works we admire, and whofe Weakneffes, whatever they might be, we wish to forget.To remember them, were but to recollect he was a Man. The Man is no more-therefore

His Faults be buried with him in the Grave,
But not remember'd in his Epitaph..
The Poet will live for ever.

Mafter W

fays, he means

not to be Mr. Pope's Panegyrift.Why truly all he has hitherto faid, or done, redounds not much to his Praise it must be confeffed:The Care he has taken of his Fame is not so very evident; but that he often

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