best authors: In this
piece he is supposed to intend by Hannibal, the duke of Marlborough; by
Hanno, the lord treasurer Oxford, by Valerius Flaccus, count Tallard,
and by Asdrubal, Dr. Robinson, bishop of Bristol.

10. The Speech of Alcibiades to the Athenians, printed in the
Whig-Examiner, Numb. 3.

11. The French King's Promise to the Pretender.

12. A Short Account, and Defence of the Barrier Treaty.

13. Remarks upon the present Negotiation of Peace, begun between
Great-Britain and France.

14. The Bewdley Cafe.

15. He had a considerable hand in a Letter to a High-Churchman.

16. He revived and published a treatise called Bouchain, in a Dialogue
between the Medley and the Examiner, about the management of the war in
1711.

17. He wrote a Letter to the Free-holders, a little before the election
of the new Parliament.

18. He had a great hand in a pamphlet, entitled the British Academy,
wherein he rallied Dr. Swift's Letter to the lord treasurer Oxford,
about altering the English language.

19. The Letter from Doway, was written by him, or some friend of his,
with his assistance.

These are chiefly the works of Maynwaring, who was a gentleman of
genius, and appears to have been a good-natur'd honest man. His moral
life has only been blamed for his intrigue with Mrs. Oldfield; but I
am persuaded when the accomplishments of that lady are remembered, (so
bright) is employed in the composition of one book, a bookseller may
publish twenty; so that in the very nature of things, a bookseller
without oppression, a crime which by unsuccessful writers is generally
imputed to them, may grow rich, while the most industrious and able
author can arrive at no more than a decent competence: and even to that,
many a great genius has never attained.

No sooner had Mr. Head a little recovered himself, than we find him
cheated again by the syren alurements of pleasure and poetry, in the
latter of which, however, it does not appear he made any proficiency.
He failed a second time, in the world, and having recourse to his pen,
wrote the first part of the English Rogue, which being too libertine,
could not be licensed till he had expunged some of the most luscious
descriptions out of it.

Mr. Winstanley, p. 208, has informed us, that at the coming out of this
first part, he was with him at the Three Cup tavern in Holborn drinking
a glass of Rhenish, and made these verses upon him,

What Gusman, Buscan, Francion, Rablai