The notes which follow the texts point to a number of the contemporary allusions, but the reader will surely wish to recognize some of the references and the more delicate ironies for himself. As the author puts it on page 17 of _Dumpling_: O wou'd to Heav'n this little Attempt of Mine may stir up some _Pudding-headed Antiquary_ to dig his Way through all the mouldy Records of Antiquity, and bring to Light the Noble Actions of Sir _John_! What scholar could refuse? University of Victoria NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. "An Eighteenth-Century Original for Lamb," _RES_, V (1929), 447. 2. An exception is Henry J. Dane who denies the relationship in "The Life and Works of Henry Carey," unpublished doctoral dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 1967), pp. xxix-xxx, and _passim_. 3. _Poems_, ed. F. T. Wood (London, 1930). 4. "Henry Carey (1687-1743) and Some Troublesome Attributions," _BNYPL_, LXII (1968), 372-377. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE These facsimiles of _A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling_ (1726) and _Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot_ (1727) are reproduced from copies in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Learned Dissertation on DUMPLING; Its Dignity, Antiquity, and Excellence. With a Word upon PUDDING. And Many other Useful Discoveries, of great Benefit to the Publick. _Quid Farto melius? Huic suam agnoscit corpus energiam, Suam aciem mens: ------------ ---- Hinc adoleverunt praestantissimi, Hi Fartophagi in Reipublicae commodum._ _Mab._ de Fartophagis, _lib._ iii. _cap._ 2. _LONDON._ Printed for _J. Roberts_ in the _Oxford-Arms_-Passage, _Warwick-lane_; and Sold by the Booksellers of _London_ and _Westminster_. 1726. [Price 6 _d._] [Decoration] TO Mr. BRAUND. SIR, Let Mercenary _Authors_ flatter the Great, and subject their Principle to Interest and Ambition, I scorn such sordid Views; You only are Eminent in my Eyes: On You I look as the most Useful Member in a Body-Politic, and your Art far superior to all others: Therefore, _Tu mihi Mecaenas Eris!_ O BRAUND, my Patron! my Pleasure! my Pride! disdain not to grace my Labours with a kind Perusal. Suspend a-while your more momentous Cares, and condescend to taste this little _Fricassee_ of Mine.