4. Savage in _An Author To Be Lett_ (1729), which appeared nine days after _The Dunciad A_, says, “I have extracted curious Hints to assist _Welsted_ in his new Satire against _Pope_, which was once (he told me) to have been christen’d _Labeo_. ’Tis yet an Embrio, and there are divers Opinions about the Birth of it” (pp. 5-6). He seems clearly to have been Pope’s informant about the unpublished _Labeo_. See Richard Savage, _An Author To be Lett_, ed. James Sutherland, The Augustan Reprint Society, Number 84 (Los Angeles, 1960), p. ii. For Labeo see Persious 1. 4. 5. Daniel Fineman, _Leonard Welsted, Gentleman Poet of the Augustan Age_ (Philadelphia, 1950), p. 190. 6. _Correspondence_, III, 59-60 and n. 7. _Ibid._, III, 106, 114. Dr. Arbuthnot, for the abuse he received in the poem, is reported to have flogged Moore Smythe (_ibid._, III, 106, n. 2, and 114, n. 1) 8. For a convenient summary of these references from 14 May to 23 July 1730 see James T. Hillhouse, _The Grub-Street Journal_ (Durham, N.C., 1928), pp. 58-63. On 14 May 1730 it printed a letter supposedly by Moore Smythe in which he says of himself and his collaborators in _One Epistle_, “we ... call our selves _Gentlemen_ which sure no body will deny, because one of is the Son of an _Alehouse-keeper_ Thoms Cooke?, one the Son of a _Foot-man_, and one the Son of a ____.” 9. Fineman, p. 192. 10. Hillhouse, p. 64, n. 19. 11. David Mallet, _Of Verbal Criticism_ (1733), p. 14. He added the note: “See a Poem published some time ago under that title, said to be the production of several ingenious and prolific heads; One contributing a simile, Another a character, and a certain Gentleman four shrewd lines wholly made up of Asterisks.” 12. See also Pope’s quotation from the “Dissertation” in _The Dunciad A_, p. 26. 13. For the Duke’s protestation against Welsted’s attack see George Sherburn, “‘Timon’s Villa’ and Cannons,” _The Huntington Library Bulletin_, VIII (1935), 140. 14. See, for example, Giles Jacob’s _The Mirrour_ (1733), p. 6, although oddly enough Jacob (like Welsted) had begun the quarrel with his _The Rape of the Smock_ (1717). 15. _Twickenham_, V. xvi. For _The Progress of Dulness_ (pp. vi-vii) see _ibid._ xvii., n. 2; xxi-xxii. 16. See the full discussion in George Sherburn, _The Early Career of Alexander Pope_ (Oxford, 1934), pp. 105-106. 17. See _Twickenham_, II. 90, n. 1. 18. See, _inter alia_, _A Letter from Sir J____ B____ to Mr. P_____ (1716), p. 1; _The Female Dunciad_ (1728), p. 4; and the careful discussion in Norman Ault, _New Light on Pope_ (London, 1949), pp. 156-162. 19. See _Cythereia_ (1723), pp. 92-93; _Characters of The Times_ (1728), p. 29. 20. See Eliza Haywood, _Memoirs Of The Court of Lilliput_ (1727), p. 17; _A Collection Of Several Curious Pieces_ (1728), pp. 4, 6; James Ralph, _Sawney_ (1728), pp. 5-8. 21. See _Twickenham_, V. 440-441.