Pope had written in _The Dunciad Variorum_, "The heroes sit; the vulgar form a ring" (II, 352), but one of the most memorable phrases in _The Dunciad in Four Books_ of 1743--the ingeniously insolent "sev'nfold Face" (I, 244)--may well have been borrowed from _The Scribleriad_. "Corinthian Brass" is good also, economically combining as it does a hit against Cibber's effrontery and a hint of his sexual irregularities. Such strokes of wit are rare; _The Scribleriad_ is the work of a writer who in skill is far closer to Grub Street than to Pope, but it may serve as "a voice from the crowd" to remind us that Pope had his humbler literary supporters. The University Southampton NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. The engravings are numbered 2571-2573 in F. G. Stephens, _Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Division 1--Satires_ (London, 1877), Vol. III, Part I. For lists of pamphlets attacking, and in some cases defending, Pope in 1742, see R. W. Rogers, _The Major Satires of Alexander Pope_ (Urbana, 1955), pp. 150, 151 and C. D. Peavy, "The Pope-Cibber Controversy: A Bibliography," in _Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research_, III (1964), 53, 54. For accounts of the Pope-Cibber quarrel see R. H. Barker, _Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane_ (New York, 1939), pp. 204-220, and N. Ault, _New Light on Pope_ (London, 1949), pp. 298-324. 2. _Sawney and Colley_ and _Blast upon Blast_ in Number 83 (1960), and _The Blatant Beast_ in Number 114 (1965). 3. E.g., in _The New Session of the Poets_ (_The Universal Spectator_, 6 Feb. 1731) the Goddess Dulness calls a session and awards the crown to Cibber. 4. See Hugh Macdonald, "Introduction," _A Journal from Parnassus_ (London, 1937) and A. L. Williams, "Literary Backgrounds to Book Four of the _Dunciad_," _PMLA_, LXVIII (1953), 806-813. 5. See note 2 above. 6. An anti-Cibber work in prose. It is doubtful that "Scriblerus," who thought this work did more harm than good to Pope's cause, would have endorsed the British Museum catalogue's attribution of it to Pope himself. 7. In _The History of the Mimes and Pantomimes_ (1728). 8. Some account of Fleetwood may be found in R. W. Buss, _Charles Fleetwood, Holder of the Drury Lane Theatre Patent_ (privately printed, 1915). There are hostile contemporary accounts of Fleetwood in Henry Carey's epistle _Of Stage Tyrants_ [(1735) reprinted in _The Poems of Henry Carey_, ed. F. T. Wood (1930)], in Charlotte Charke's _The Art of Management_ (1735), and in _A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Written by Herself_ (1735). 9. _Julius Caesar_, on 28 April 1738. Rich offered _Hamlet_ on 10 April 1739. 10. A lady once asked Foote, "Pray, Sir, are your puppets to be as large as life?" "Oh dear, Madam, no: not much above the size of Garrick." See William Cooke, _Memoirs of Samuel Foote_ (1805), II, 58.