for a fingle man to undertake fuch a work: But it is too late to diffuade by demonftrating the madness of the Project. The Subscribers expectations have been raised in proportion to what their Pockets have been drained of ". Pope has been concerned in Jobs, and hired out his Name to Bookfellers w Names beftowed on Mr. POPE. An APE.] Let us take the initial letter of his Chriftian name, and initial and final letters of his furname, viz. A PE, and they give you the fame Idea of an Ape as his Face *, &c. An Ass.] It is my duty to pull off the Lion's fkin from this little Afs y. A FROG.] A fquab short Gentleman—a little creature that, like the Frog in the Fable, swells, and is angry that it is not allowed to be as big as an Ox2. A COWARD.] A lurking, way-laying coward a. A KNAVE.] He is one whom God and nature have marked for want of common honesty b. A FOOL.] Great Fools will be christened by the names of great Poets, and Pope will be called Homer c. A THING.] A little abject Thing d. u Homerides, p. 1, &c. w British Journal, Nov. 25, 1727. x Dennis, Daily Journal, May 11, 1728. r Dennis's Rem. on Hom. Pref. Rem. on the Rape of the Lock, Pref. of Mr. P. p. 3. on Homer, p. 37. b Ibid. P. 9. z Dennis's a Char. c Dennis's Rem. INDEX O F Perfons celebrated in this POEM. The firft Number fhews the Book, the fecond the VERSE. A A MBROSE Philips, i. 105. iii. 326. Attila, iii. 92. Alaric, iii. 91. Alma Mater, iii. 338. Annius, an antiquary, iv. 347. Arnal, William, ii. 315. B BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, i. 104. ii. 268. Befaleel Morris, ii. 126. iii. 168. Banks, i. 146. Broome, ibid. Bond, ii. 126. Brown, iii. 28. Bladen, iv. 560. Budgel, Efq. ii. 397. Bentley, Richard, iv. 201. Bentley, Thomas, ii. 205. Boyer, Abel, ii. 413. Bland, a Gazetteer, i. 231. Breval, J. Durant, ii. 126. 238. Benlowes, iii. 21. Bavius, ibid. Burmannus, iv. 237. Benfon, William, Esq. iii. 325. iv. 110. Burgersdick, iv. 198. Boeotians, Boeotians, iii. 50. Bruin and Bears, i. 101. Bear and Fiddle, i. 224. C CIBBER, Colley, Hero of the Poem, paffim. Cibber, jun. iii. 139. 326. Caxton, William, i. 145. Curll, Edm. i. 40, ii. 3. 58. 167, &c. Cooke, Thomas, ii. 138. Concanen, Matthew, ii. 299. Centlivre, Sufannah, ii. 411. Cæfar in Ægypt, i. 251. Chi Ho-am-ti, emperor of China, iii. 75. Codrus, ii. 144. D DE FOE, Daniel, i. 103. ii. 147. De Lyra, or Harpsfield, i. 153. Dennis, John, i. 106. ii. 239. iii. 173. Dunton, John, ii. 144. D'Urfey, iii. 146. Dutchmen, ii. 405. iii. 51. Doctors, at White's, i. 203. Douglas, iv. 394. E EUSDEN, Laurence, Poet Laureat, i. 104. Eliza Haywood, ii. 157, &c. FLECKNO, Richard, ii. 2. Fauftus, Dr. iii. 233. F GILDON, |