As to the “others” we should remember Mallet’s caution that it would be vain, To guess, ere _One Epistle_ saw the light, How many brother-dunces club’d their mite.[11] Welsted himself had begun his quarrel with Pope with an attack on _Three Hours after Marriage_, that amusing and much-abused play, in _Palaemon To Caelia at Bath; Or, The Triumvirate_ (1717). Pope is said to have collaborated with Gay not only in _Three Hours_, a play “so lewd,/ Ev’n Bullies blush’d, and Beaux astonish’d stood” (Second Edition, p. 11), but in _The Wife of Bath_ and _The What D’Ye Call It_. Welsted also hits at _God’s Revenge Against Punning_, the _First Psalm_, praises Tickell, and finds Pope’s versification flat. All of these charges (except the one that Pope collaborated in _The Wife of Bath_) had appeared in print before, but Pope was to remember _Palaemon To Caelia_ and include it in a note to _The Dunciad A_ II.293, where it is neatly described as “meant for a Satire on Mr. P. and some of his friends.” In 1721 Welsted’s name appears in the title of a pamphlet containing an attack on Pope’s Homer, _An Epistle To Mr. Welsted; And A Satyre on the English Translations of Homer_, by that engagingly inept Dunce, Bezaleel Morrice. In 1724 in the “Dissertation concerning the Perfection of the English Language” prefixed to his _Epistles, Odes, &c._, Welsted quoted (not quite correctly) and criticized Pope’s “And such as _Chaucer_ is, shall _Dryden_ be” (p. x). The anonymous author of _Characters of The Times_ (1728) thought that Welsted would have been spared Pope’s abuse if he had not in his “Dissertation” “happen’d to cite a low and false line from Mr. P[o]pe for the meer Purpose of refuting it, without seeming to know, or care who was the Author of it” (p. 24).[12] In the _Peri Bathous_ Pope included Welsted as a didapper and an eel. Pope then put him into _The Dunciad_ in II.293-300 and, more memorably, in III.163-166: Flow Welsted, Flow! like thine inspirer, Beer, Tho’ stale, not ripe; tho’ thin, yet never clear; So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong, and foaming tho’ not full. Unable to leave well enough alone, Welsted continued his attack on Pope with _One Epistle_ and then again in January 1732 with _Of Dulness and Scandal_, which ran to three editions. The half-title of _One Epistle_ had promised that it was to be continued, and the writer of the preface had said that he intended “in the preface to the next Epistle ... to state several Matters of Fact, in Contradiction to the Notes of the _Dunciad_” (p. viii). _Of Dulness and Scandal_, however, has no preface and is an independent attack. Its main charge is Pope’s ingratitude to the Duke of Chandos as shown in the _Epistle to Burlington_, a famous charge frequently to be repeated,[13] but it claims as well that a lady named Victoria died as a result of reading Pope’s Homer and attacks once more _The Rape of the Lock_ and the _First Psalm_.