ithdrew into artistic
conservatism, into conviviality, and into silence.

Temple University

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

[1] For a survey of all Lloyd's work see Cecil J. L. Price, _A
Man of Genius and a Welch Man_ (University of Swansea, Wales,
1963). Lloyd is the subject of an unpublished dissertation,
_The Moral Beau_, by Paul E. Parnell (New York University, 1956).
Two short passages from _The Methodist_ are included in _The Penguin
Book of Satirical Verse_, ed. Edward Lucie-Smith (Baltimore, 1967).

[2] Most recently, Albert M. Lyles, _Methodism Mocked_ (London, 1960).

[3] Journal, 8 February 1753, quoted by A. R. Humphreys, _The Augustan
World_ (New York, 1963), p. 20.

[4] The pseudonymous author, Peter Paragraph, is identified by Halkett
and Laing, _Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English
Literature_, as James Makittrick Adair. Adair did write some works
under that pseudonym but probably did not write _The Methodist and
Mimic_. Lyles, _op. cit._, p. 129n., suggests that the author may
be Samuel Foote, in whose play, _The Orators_, a character, Peter
Paragraph, appears, probably representing George Faulkner. Robert
Lloyd, in "The Cobbler of Cripplegate's Letter," hints that Peter
Paragraph may be Bonnel Thornton.

[5] _The Critical Review_, XXIII (1766), pp. 75-77.

[6] _The Power of Satire_ (Princeton, 1960), p. 222 and _passim_.

[7] The Methodist was reviewed by _The Monthly Review_, XXV (1766),
pp. 319-321, and _Gentleman's Magazine_, XXXVI (1766), p. 335.
_Conversation_ was reviewed more favorably by _The Monthly Review_,
XXXVII (1767), p. 394, and by _The Critical Review_ XXIV (1767),
pp. 341-343. _The Critical Review_ compared him with Swift.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

This facsimile of _The Methodist_ (1766) is reproduced from a copy [840.
k. 10. (18.)] in the British Museum by kind permission of the Trustees.

THE
METHODIST.

A
POEM.

BY
E Lloyd [HW: Signature]

AUTHOR OF
The Powers of the Pen, and The Curate.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR;
And Sold by RICHARDSON and URQUHART, under the
ROYAL-EXCHANGE, CORNHILL.

MDCCLXVI.

THE METHODIST.

Nothing, search all creation round,
Nothing so _firmly good_ is found,
Whose substance, with such closeness knit,
_Corruption_'s _Touch_ will not admit;
But, spite of all incroaching stains,
Its native puri