Tho' this be _Form_--yet bend to _Form_ we must, Fools _with it_ please, _without it_ Wits disgust (p. 3). He uses mostly end-stop couplets, parallel constructions, Augustan diction and similes. Apparently, he began his rejection of his new ideas and style immediately after _The Methodist_ and before his 1766-1767 outburst of satire-writing was over. Lloyd, in writing _The Methodist_, seems to have come as close as any satirist before Blake and the writers of _The Anti-Jacobin_ to seeing the problems England and the world were headed toward, to recognizing how genuinely volatile English society was in the middle of the century, and to creating a style which could deal with those problems satirically. It may be that he got some realization that his own long passages in _The Methodist_ praising this best of all possible worlds (pp. 16-20) and his invocation to the "heav'nly Plan" at the conclusion made no sense, that they were contradicted by other passages in the same satire, that England and the world were changing with enormous rapidity, and that the satirist would have to create a new style to express the tremendous economic, political, social, and religious problems that were coming into being. It may be that getting such a faint notion he withdrew into artistic conservatism, into conviviality, and into silence. Temple University NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION [1] For a survey of all Lloyd's work see Cecil J. L. Price, _A Man of Genius and a Welch Man_ (University of Swansea, Wales, 1963). Lloyd is the subject of an unpublished dissertation, _The Moral Beau_, by Paul E. Parnell (New York University, 1956). Two short passages from _The Methodist_ are included in _The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse_, ed. Edward Lucie-Smith (Baltimore, 1967). [2] Most recently, Albert M. Lyles, _Methodism Mocked_ (London, 1960). [3] Journal, 8 February 1753, quoted by A. R. Humphreys, _The Augustan World_ (New York, 1963), p. 20. [4] The pseudonymous author, Peter Paragraph, is identified by Halkett and Laing, _Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature_, as James Makittrick Adair. Adair did write some works under that pseudonym but probably did not write _The Methodist and Mimic_. Lyles, _op. cit._, p. 129n., suggests that the author may be Samuel Foote, in whose play, _The Orators_, a character, Peter Paragraph, appears, probably representing George Faulkner. Robert Lloyd, in "The Cobbler of Cripplegate's Letter," hints that Peter Paragraph may be Bonnel Thornton. [5] _The Critical Review_, XXIII (1766), pp. 75-77. [6] _The Power of Satire_ (Princeton, 1960), p. 222 and _passim_.