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1730
Threnodia, or, an Elegy On the unexpected and unlamented Death of the Censor: Together With some Account of his Last Will and Testament: All faithifully collected from the Genuine MSS. in the Grub-street Vatican. Written Originally by Martin Gulliver, and now revis'd and publish'd by the Commentator on the Censoriad. Printed in the Year 1730.
pp. 3-7. anapaestic l.c.
Mock-elegiac.
"The Proeme," in Spenserian prose.
Another libel against the hero of The Censoriad.
Ye dealers in Doggrel, ye taggers of Rimes,
Ye scourges of Dullness, ye bold Pamphleteers
Who spare not the Vices of Fellows, or P——rs,
Ye fool-hating Authors of ev'ry degree,
Ye Hawkers of Scandal, come mourn with me;
With me, O Lament, for the Censor deceast,
Who dy'd, as he's said to have liv'd, Like a Beast. [Opening, p. 3.]
On the last page is an advertisement: "Curteous Reader, Not having Room in this Paper for his last Will and Testament, we must inform thee, that in a few Days it will be added to a new Edition of this Poem, when it will appear with several curious Annotations, and Remarks; and thereunto will be annexed a more Correct Edition of the Censoriad also; to which will be prefix'd the Life of Martin Gulliver both in Latin and English." I have not traced the "Will" or the "Life."
Threnodia, The Censoriad (and probably The Heraldiad) appear to be directed against Hugh Graffan (1701-1743), Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1724.
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