In February 1732 Welsted published his last attack on Pope, _Of False Fame_, in which he attacks _Windsor Forest_, _The Rape of the Lock_, Pope’s edition of Shakespeare, _The Dunciad_, and the _Epistle to Burlington_. Pope then mentioned him in the _Epistle to Arbuthnot_, at first in l. 49, although he altered this to “Pitholeon,” and then in l. 375, where most twentieth-century college students first meet his name. The charges in _One Epistle_ are unusually comprehensive, but almost none of them is original. To help the reader to evaluate the more important, the following notes may be helpful. The denial in the preface of Pope’s statement that no one is attacked in _The Dunciad_ “who had not before, either in Print or private Conversation, endeavour’d something to his Disadvantage” (p. v) is a reference to _The Dunciad_, p. 203, where, however, conversation is not mentioned. This sentence of Pope’s annoyed many of the Dunces.[14] What the preface says about Swift and Arbuthnot and the _Peri Bathous_ (p. vii) may well be true.[15] Welsted’s charge that Pope wrote the Prologue to _Cato_ and then “the Play decried” (p. 12) is simply Dennis’s old charge first made in _A True Character of Mr. Pope (1716)_ and repeated in _Remarks Upon ... the Dunciad_ (1729) that Pope had teased Lintot into publishing Dennis’s attack on _Cato_. The charge rests only on Dennis’s authority.[16] The obscenity of _The Rape of the Lock_ was an old story.[17] So was the notorious _First Psalm_.[18] Welsted’s attacks on the _Pastorals_, the Homer, the _Peri Bathous_, and _The Dunciad_ are simply the commonplaces of Popiana. The charge that he libeled Addison only after the great man’s death is also familiar[19] (Welsted seems to have been the first, though, to mention the libel on Lady Mary) and long since disproved by Sherburn and Ault. That Pope was a plagiarist is an idea that turns up constantly.[20] Welsted’s other charges are more interesting. He seems to be the only Dunce who objected (p. 12) to Pope’s mentioning Bishop Hoadly in _The Dunciad A_ II.368. It may just possibly be true that Gildon was dismissed by Buckingham because of Gildon’s dislike of Pope (p. 22).[21] The most curious of the charges is that Pope, ... from the Skies, propitious to the Fair, Brought down _Caecilia_, and sent _Cloris_ there. (p. 11)