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LONDON:
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE,
CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME.
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ODE on St. Cecilia's Day
Two CHORUSES to the Tragedy of Brutus
THE DYING CHRISTIAN to his Soul
ELOISA TO ABELARD
EPISTLES
To Mr. Addison on his Dialogues on Medals
To Robert, Earl of Oxford, prefixed to Parnelle's poems
To James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of State .
To Mr. Jervas, with Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy
To Mrs. Martha Blount, on her Birth-day
To the same, with the Works of Voiture
To Mrs. Teresa Blount, on leaving Town
Verses to Mr. C., St. James's Place
PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES
Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato
to Sophonisba
to a play for Mr. Dennis
Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore
MiscellANIES
Lines occasioned by some Verses by the Duke of Buckingham
Macer, a Character
To Mr. John Moore, author of the celebrated Worm-Powder
Song, by a Person of Quality
On a certain Lady at Court
On his Grotto at Twickenham
To Mr. Gay, who had congratulated him on finishing his house and
gardens
Verbatim from Boileau
Answer to Mrs. How
To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-day
To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lines sung by Durastanti
Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Woodstock
73
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81
ib.
83
84
87
88
Worm.
90
91
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95
101
Verses on lying in the bed where the Earl of Rochester had slept at
Adderbury
96
The Challenge : a Court Ballad
The three gentle Shepherds
99
Epigram
EPITAPHS
I. On Charles, Earl of Dorset
103
II. On Sir William Trumbal
104
III. On the Hon. Simon Harcourt
105
IV. On James Craggs, Esq.
106
V. On Mr. Rowe
107
VI. On Mrs. Corbet
108
VII. On the Hon. Robert Digby, and his sister Mary
109
VIII. On Sir Godfrey Kneller
110
IX. On General Henry Withers
111
X. On Mr. Elijah Fenton .
112
XI. On Mr. Gay
113
XII. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton
114
XIII. On Dr. Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester .
XIV. On Edmund, Duke of Buckingbam
115
XV. For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey 116
THE DUNCIAD, in four Books
117
A letter to the publisher, occasioned by the first correct edition of
the Dunciad
130
Martinus Scriblerus, his Prolegomena and illustrations to the
Dunciad, with the hyper-critics of Aristarchus .
139
Testimonies of Authors
141
Martinus Scriblerus, of the poem
166
Richardus Aristarchus, of the Hero of the Poem
172
Book I.
189
Book II.
227
Book III.
271
Book IV.
309
Declaration by the Author
369
APPENDIX.
I. Preface to the five first imperfect editions of the Dunciad . 371
II. A list of books, papers, and verses, in which our author was
abused before the publication of the Dunciad
375
After the Dunciad
378
III. Advertisement to the first edition with notes, in quarto, 1729 381
IV. Advertisement printed in the Journals, 1730
383
V. Advertisement to the first edition of the fourth book of the
Dunciad, when printed separately in 1742
VI. Advertisement to the complete edition of 1743
384
VII. Of the Poet Laureate .
386
VIII. A parallel of the characters of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope 392
Index of Persons celebrated in this Poem
401