In the same month that _Miss Lucy in Town_ appeared at Drury Lane, Millar published it in book form. In the following June, T. Waller of the Temple-Cloisters issued the first of a contemplated series of translations from Aristophanes by Henry Fielding, Esq., and the Rev. William Young who sat for Parson Adams. The play chosen was _Plutus, the God of Riches_, and a notice upon the original cover stated that, according to the reception it met with from the public, it would be followed by the others. It must be presumed that "the distressed, and at present, declining State of Learning" to which the authors referred in their dedication to Lord Talbot, was not a mere form of speech, for the enterprise does not seem to have met with sufficient encouragement to justify its continuance, and this special rendering has long since been supplanted by the more modern versions of Mitchell, Frere, and others. Whether Fielding took any large share in it is not now discernible. It is most likely, however, that the bulk of the work was Young's, and that his colleague did little more than furnish the Preface, which is partly written in the first person, and betrays its origin by a sudden and not very relevant attack upon the "pretty, dapper, brisk, smart, pert Dialogue" of Modern Comedy into which the "infinite Wit" of Wycherley had degenerated under Cibber. It also contains a compliment to the numbers of the "inimitable Author" of the _Essay on Man_. This is the second compliment which Fielding had paid to Pope within a brief period, the first having been that in the _Champion_ respecting the translation of the _Iliad_. What his exact relations with the author of the _Dunciad_ were, has never been divulged. At first they seem to have been rather hostile than friendly. Fielding had ridiculed the Romish Church in the _Old Debauchees_, a course which Pope could scarcely have approved; and he was, moreover, the cousin of Lady Mary, now no longer throned in the Twickenham Temple. Pope had commented upon a passage in _Tom Thumb_, and Fielding had indirectly referred to Pope in the _Covent Garden Tragedy_. When it had been reported that Pope had gone to see _Pasquin_, the statement had been at once contradicted. But Fielding was now, like Pope, against Walpole; and _Joseph Andrews_ had been published. It may therefore be that the compliments in _Plutus_ and the _Champion_ were the result of some _rapprochement_ between the two. It is, nevertheless, curious that, at this very time, an attempt appears to have been made to connect the novelist with the controversy which presently arose out of Cibber's well-known letter to Pope. In August 1742, the month following its publication, among the pamphlets to which it gave rise, was announced _The Cudgel; or, a Crab-tree Lecture, To the Author of the Dunciad_. "By Hercules Vinegar, Esq." This very mediocre satire in verse is still to be found at the British Museum; but even if