A COWARD. A Clinias or a Damætas, or a man of Mr. Dryden's own courage. A KNAVE.] Mr. Dryden has heard of Paul, the Knave of Jesus Christ. And, if I mistake not, I have read somewhere of John Dryden, Servant to his Majesty.t A FOOL. Had he not been such a self-conceited Fool.-Some great Poets are positive Blockheads.§ A THING.] So little a Thing as Mr. Dryden.|| Page 176. + Page 57. § Milbourn, p. 34. Whip and Key, Pref. || Ibid. p. 35. A COWARD.] A lurking way-laying coward.* A KNAVE. He is one whom God and Nature have marked for want of common honesty. A FOOL. Great Fools will be christened by the names of great Poets, and Pope will be called Homer.‡ A THING. A little abject Thing.§ *Char. of Mr. P. p. 3. † Ibid. Dennis, Rem. on Homer, p. 37. § Ibid. p. 8. INDEX OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM. [The first Number shews the BOOK, the second the VERSE.] A. ATTILA, iii. 92. Alaric, iii. 91. Alma Mater, iii. 338. Annius, an antiquary, iv. 347. Arnall, William, ii. 315. Atterbury, Dr. iv. 246. B. Blackmore, Sir Richard, i. 104. ii. 259. 302. 370. Banks, i. 146. Broome, ibid. Bond, ii. 126. Brown, iii. 28. Bladen, iv. 560. Bland, a Gazetteer, i. 231. Benlowes, iii. 21. Bavius, iii. 24. Benson, William, iii. 325. iv. Burgersdyck, iv. 198. Boyle, iii. 328. Bruin and Bears, i. 101. Bear and Fiddle, i. 224. Bacon, iii. 215. Barrow, Dr. iv. 245. C. Cibber, Colley, Hero of the Poem, passim. Cibber, sen. i. 31. Cibber, jun. iii. 139. 326. Caxton, William, i. 149. Curl, Edm. i. 40. ii. 3. 58. 167, &c. Cook, Thomas, ii. 138. Concanen, Matthew, ii. 138. 299. Centlivre, Susannah, ii. 411. Chesterfield, Lord, iv. 43. D. De Foe, Daniel, i. 103. ii. 147. |