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or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana; or, A Comparison between the Ecclesiastical and Poetical Pope. And many Things, in Verse and Prose, relating to the latter. With an ample Preface; and a Critique on the Third Volume of Miscellanies lately publish'd by those two facetious Writers [by Jonathan Smedley]

Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)

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[See! Gulliver's, is Milo's End]

[Dear Sid, then why wert thou so mad]

1. A New Discovery.

2. The Art of Metaphor.

3. A Sample of Satire on any Lieutenant General of the Army.

4. An Allegory taken from a Serpent, to express the most virulent Obscenity.

5. A Simile to express the same.

1. A Comparison between an OX and an ELEPHANT.

2 Between an ELEPHANT and a PARLIAMENT-MAN.

To Mr. Arb---; with the foregoing Tale.

The Forester and the Wood.

The Rose: By Mr. Philips.

Imitated, on a F---: By J--- S---.

An EPIGRAM. Imitation of Prior to Lord Dorset.

The Fly and the Wheel. A FABLE: Or, The Drapier and Wood Explain'd.

Apollo's EDICT.

A Poem upon Rover, a Lady's Spaniel.

EPILOGUE to Mr. Hoppy's Benefit-Night, at Smock-Alley.

To Lucinda, Toujours Gay.

On the Death of Old Nick.

VERSES, fix'd on the Cathedral Door, the Day of Dean Gulliver's Installment.

The Original of Punning, from Plato's Symposiacks.

An ELEGY on the much lamented Death of Mr. Damer, the famous Rich Man, who died the sixth Day of July, 1720, at Dublin.

A LETTER from the Quidnunc's at St. James's Coffee-house and the Mall, London, to their Brethren at Lucas's Coffee-house, in Dublin.

A LETTER to Mr. Ambrose Philips, on his Landing in Ireland, and being abused for his Poems, on Lord Carteret's Family, by many Irish Bards, especially Doctor Gulliver.

To a Clergyman, residing in a beautiful Vale in Norfolk, on his resolving to live in London.

An EPISTLE to his Grace the Duke of Grafton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

[This Rod was slender, white and tall]

Tom Pun-sibi Metamorphos'd: Or, The Giber Gib'd.

A Lilliputian Ode; In Imitation of, and humbly Inscrib'd to, Captain Gulliver; sole Redivivor of the ancient Fescennine.

The Devil's Last Game:

From the Daily Journal, April 16. 1728.

From the Flying-Post, April 23. 1728.

On one of the Admirers of Pope's Translation, who said, There was a great deal of Wit in Homer.

Alexander P---e's Nosegay:

To be inserted in the next Edition of the Dunciad.

Epigram on the Translation of Homer.

[LUCAN] IMITATED.

The WISH.

On Reading Sawney, an Heroic Poem, in Answer to the Dunciad.

L---t's LAMENTATION.

King OBERON's Edict.

An Indian Tale: Occasion'd by the Verses, on the Quidnunchi's; Miscellanies, Vol. 3. p. 229, apply'd to the joint Authors of that Volume.

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A Lilliputian Ode; In Imitation of, and humbly Inscrib'd to, Captain Gulliver; sole Redivivor of the ancient Fescennine.

I

The Profund,
Wou'd you sift
To the Ground,
Follow Swift.

II

House of Van,
Mother Clud,
Made the Man
Fond of Mud.

III

Then Lord Cutt's
Filthy Strain!
From his Guts
Reach'd his Brain.

IV

And that same
Dame Harris
To his Fame,
A Bar is.

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V

So vulgar,
Scrubby writ
Is her Pray'r,
In low Wit.

VI

Then Whiston:
And Ditton:
That pist on;
This shit on.

VII

Eccho too!
Nasty Verse!
Things so true
To rehearse.

VIII

Then Durfy!
And Flestrin;
O Scurvy!
Dull Jesting!

IX

But to Sink
All these show,
With one's Ink,
Deep below.

X

And Dean Swift,
Left hath us
Useful Gift!
True BATHOS.

Had the Captain attended to his Roman Learning, instead of his New-invented Figure the Infantine, he had used the old Word Fescennine, which imports what the Captain intends, and expresses the true Roman Lullabie. The Metre of this Fescennine, was the same with the Captain's Quinbus Flestrine, and it consisted of one Foot of Three Syllables, which was called Amphibrachys; in which Measure the Romans sung Bawdy Ballads, and lewd wedding Songs. From this Remark, the Reader is desired to observe, that Mr. Philips is clear of the Infantine or Fescennine, charg'd on him by the Captain, in the Bathos, altho' he never wrote one Line in that Measure in his Life; and it is as plain, that the Captain is the sole Redivivor of this Fescennine or Infantine, in our Days; nothing of the Sort having appear'd, except Quinbus Flestrin, since Sir John Suckling, who imitated Herbert, who imitated Withers, who imitated Boethius, who imitated Ausonius, who imitated Seneca, the Tragedian; all ---! from Statius down to Swift, dull Imitators of Anacreon.