Tub, and other Writings; altogether
Fictitious and Drole: he adds to the Jest, by putting
an Air of Authority or genuine Quotation from some
great Author; when alas! the whole is mere Farce and
Invention.

The Dedication is one continued Sneer upon Authors,
and their Patrons, and seems to carry a Glance of
Derision towards Men of Quality in General; by setting
a Cook above them, as a more useful Member in a body
Politick. Some will have this _Braund_, to be Sir
****, others Sir ****, others Sir ****; but I take it
to be more Railery than Mystery, and that Mr.
_Braund_, at the _Rummer_ in _Queen-street_, is the
Person; who having pleas'd the Author in two or three
Entertainments, he, with a View truly _Epicurean_,
constitutes him his _Maecenas_; as being more agreeable
to him than a whole Circle of Stars and Garters, of
what Colour or Denomination soever.

In his Tale of a Tub, he has a fling at Dependance,
and Attendance, where he talks of a Body worn out with
Poxes ill cured, and Shooes with Dependance, and
Attendance. Not having the Book by me, I am forced to
quote at Random, but I hope the courteous Reader will
bear me out. He complains of it again in this
Treatise, and makes a Complement to Mr. _Austin_, Mr.
_Braund_'s late Servant; who keeps the _Braund_'s Head
in _New Bond-street_, near _Hanover-Square_; a House
of great Elegance, and where he used frequently to
dine.

The Distinction of _Brand_, _Braund_, and _Barnes_, is
a Banter on Criticks, and Genealogists, who make such
a Pother about the Orthography of Names and Things,
that many Times, three Parts in four of a Folio
Treatise, is taken up in ascertaining the Propriety of
a Syllable, by which Means the Reader is left
undetermined; having nothing but the various Readings
on a single Word, and that probably, of small
Importance.

I heartily wish some of these Glossographists would
oblige the World with a Folio Treatise or two, on the
Word Rabbet: We shall then know whether it is to be
spelt with an _e_, or an _i_. For, to the Shame of the
_English_ Tongue and this learned Age, our most
eminent Physicians, Surgeons, Anatomists and Men
Midwives, have all been to seek in this Affair.

St. _Andre_, }
_Howard_, } Spell it
_Braithwaite_, } with
_Ahlers_ and } an _e_.
_Manningham_, }

_Douglas_ }
and the } Spell it
Gentleman who } with
calls himself } an _i_.
_Gulliver_, }

And some of