[12.] See also Pope’s quotation from the “Dissertation” in The Dunciad A, p. 26.

[13.] For the Duke’s protestation against Welsted’s attack see George Sherburn, “‘Timon’s Villa’ and Cannons,” The Huntington Library Bulletin, VIII (1935), 140.

[14.] See, for example, Giles Jacob’s The Mirrour (1733), p. 6, although oddly enough Jacob (like Welsted) had begun the quarrel with his The Rape of the Smock (1717).

[15.] Twickenham, V. xvi. For The Progress of Dulness (pp. vi-vii) see ibid. xvii., n. 2; xxi-xxii.

[16.] See the full discussion in George Sherburn, The Early Career of Alexander Pope (Oxford, 1934), pp. 105-106.

[17.] See Twickenham, II. 90, n. 1.

[18.] See, inter alia, A Letter from Sir J____ B____ to Mr. P____ (1716), p. 1; The Female Dunciad (1728), p. 4; and the careful discussion in Norman Ault, New Light on Pope (London, 1949), pp. 156-162.

[19.] See Cythereia (1723), pp. 92-93; Characters of The Times (1728), p. 29.

[20.] See Eliza Haywood, Memoirs Of The Court of Lilliput (1727), p. 17; A Collection Of Several Curious Pieces (1728), pp. 4, 6; James Ralph, Sawney (1728), pp. 5-8.

[21.] See Twickenham, V. 440-441.