The Bodleian manuscript is an approximate but not a true copy of the version which was first printed. A few lines appear in the published poem which are not to be found in the manuscript, the printed marginal annotations are fewer in number and considerably changed, and there are some differences in the musical notation. Except for an indication that the old Robin mentioned at the beginning of the poem was a particular “fool well known in the city,” however, the manuscript annotations are similar in character to those printed and add little to the comprehensibility of the text. The author’s signed dedication to Churchill shows an inclination (like that revealed in the concluding lines of the published text) to justify his poem as a defense of true religion against the sectaries whose words and actions brought it into contempt; but _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ appears to have been, in reality, little more than the irresponsible outburst of a young man of twenty-three who was tired of discipline, disappointed in his expectations of political preferment, and angry at the sort of people who had taken over the country but who seemed incapable of appreciating his peculiar merits. Leon Howard University of California, Los Angeles _A_ SATYR Against HYPOCRITES Juvenal. Sat. 1. _Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum._ Juvenal. Sat. 14. ----_Velocius & citius nos_---- _Corrumpunt vitiorum exempla domestica, magnis_ _Cum subeant animos autoribus._ Printed in the Year, 1655. _A Satyr against Hypocrites._