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[5] J. V. Guerinot, _Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744_ (New York: New York University Press, 1969), lists 15 pamphlets between 1724 and the publication of the first _Dunciad_, but he does not include the frequent newspaper comments.
[6] Cibber, I, 38-39.
[7] William H. Peterson, "Pope and Cibber's _The Non-Juror_" MLN, LXX (May, 1955), 332-335. Three instances are given:
1. Maria, the coquette, quotes _The Rape of the Lock_ with great relish. The praise is in the wrong mouth.
2. Maria speaks slightingly of her English version of Homer. Pope's last volume had just come out.
3. Dr. Wolf refers to "Eloisa and Abelard" in his second attempt to seduce Lady Woodvil. The argument is twisted out of context.
These elements, combined with the strong anti-Catholic sentiment, would certainly point attention toward Pope, and, in any case, were not calculated to please him.
[8] See R. H. Barker, _Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), p. 151.
[9] Cibber's supposition that Pope wrote the _Clue to the Non-Juror_ has subsequently been established as correct. See Ault, pp. 303-313.
[10] _Epistle to Arbuthnot_, 97. It should be noted here that Cibber misquotes the line, a failing habitual to him. The anonymous pamphlet, _A Blast upon Bays; or, a New Lick at the Laureat_, which appeared shortly after the Letter, points out rather severely the difference in meaning between Cibber's "too" and Pope's "still", maintaining a mistress twenty years after the events, _A Blast_ is as heated in defense of Pope as it is in attack against Cibber, but it offers no evidence; aside from Pope's original line, it is the only charge of this kind among contemporary attacks.
[11] Colley Cibber, _The Provoked Husband_ (London, 1728), Preface.
[12] Two examples from the Birth-day Odes will give some idea of the Cibberian quality:
Her Fleets, that now the Seas command, Were late upon her Forests growing; Her wholesome Stores, for every Band, As late within her Fields were sowing. (1741)
Behold! in clouds of fire serene, The royal hero heads his pow'rs: Alike to fame, with raptures seen, His younger hope, the eaglet soars. Fortune, to grace her fav'rite son, Stamps on his bleeding form renown. (1743)
[13] James Boswell, _Life of Johnson_, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, rev. L. F. Powell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934), I, 402.
[14] Boswell, II, 92-93.
[15] Thomas Davies, _Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq._ (London, 1780), II, 202.
[16] In the Twickenham Edition of _The Dunciad_ (London: Methuen, 2nd ed. rev., 1953, pp. xxxiii-xxxiv and (B) 341), James Sutherland refers to line 20 ("Soft on her lap her Laureat son reclines") and holds that Cibber's answer may have been less a protest than a warning. In _The New Dunciad_ (1742), however, the footnote to this line expands the satire, quotes from the _Apology_ and is a sharper attack than the line itself.
[17] Paston, I, 687.
[18] Joseph Spence, _Observations, Anecdotes and Characters of Books and Men_, ed. James M. Osborn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), I, 110 (no. 251).
[19] Alexander Pope, Correspondence, ed. George Sherburn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956), IV, 415.
[20] Spence, I, 148-149 (no. 331).
[21] Pope, _Works_, V. 89 ( Book I , line 109n). This verse appears in the Twickenham edition, V, 276, as a note to _Dunciad_ (B)