burn (Oxford, 1956), III, 114.

2. Robert W. Rogers, _The Major Satires of Alexander Pope_ (Urbana,
1955), p. 139. The two epistles of the title are Edward Young's _Two
Epistles To Mr. Pope_ which had appeared in January 1730 and which
praised Pope warmly. See _One Epistle_, p. 22.

3. _The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope_, General
Editor, John Butt, 6 vols. (London, 1939-1961), W, 211-212. Citations
from Pope's poetry in my text are from this edition.

4. Savage in _An Author To Be Lett_ (1729), which appeared nine days
after _The Dunciad A_, says, "I have extracted curious Hints to assist
_Welsted_ in his new Satire against _Pope_, which was once (he told me)
to have been christen'd _Labeo_. 'Tis yet an Embrio, and there are
divers Opinions about the Birth of it" (pp. 5-6). He seems clearly to
have been Pope's informant about the unpublished _Labeo_. See Richard
Savage, _An Author To be Lett_, ed. James Sutherland, The Augustan
Reprint Society, Number 84 (Los Angeles, 1960), p. ii. For Labeo see
Persious 1. 4.

5. Daniel Fineman, _Leonard Welsted, Gentleman Poet of the Augustan Age_
(Philadelphia, 1950), p. 190.

6. _Correspondence_, III, 59-60 and n.

7. _Ibid._, III, 106, 114. Dr. Arbuthnot, for the abuse he received in
the poem, is reported to have flogged Moore Smythe (_ibid._, III, 106,
n. 2, and 114, n. 1)

8. For a convenient summary of these references from 14 May to 23 July
1730 see James T. Hillhouse, _The Grub-Street Journal_ (Durham, N.C.,
1928), pp. 58-63. On 14 May 1730 it printed a letter supposedly by Moore
Smythe in which he says of himself and his collaborators in _One
Epistle_, "we ... call our selves _Gentlemen_ which sure no body will
deny, because one of is the Son of an _Alehouse-keeper_ Thoms Cooke?,
one the Son of a _Foot-man_, and one the Son of a ____."

9. Fineman, p. 192.

10. Hillhouse, p. 64, n. 19.

11. David Mallet, _Of Verbal Criticism_ (1733), p. 14. He added the
note: "See a Poem published some time ago under that title, said to be
the production of several ingenious and prolific heads; One contributing
a simile, Another a character, and a certain Gentleman four shrewd lines
wholly made up of Asterisks."

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.

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