_The Blatant Beast_ is pro-Cibber, of course, but it criticizes specifically only a few lines from _The New Dunciad_. The writer’s chief interest is in a general attack. The criticisms of the Shakespeare, of _Three Hours_ and the _Epistle to Burlington_, and of Pope’s plagiarism are perfectly conventional. More interesting is the accusation (p. 6) that Pope wrote (as, of course, he did) his Homer on the backs of personal letters. Also interesting is the reference to Pope’s inscription on the Shakespeare monument in Westminster Abbey (p. 5). Pope was, with several others, responsible for the Latin inscription; it does not seem that he had anything to do with the lines from _The Tempest_ IV. i. 152-156, which were added several months later. These lines are given in the first note to _The Dunciad B_ I. and, in slightly different form, in _The Gentleman’s Magazine_, XI, 276. The last line reads, “Leave not a wreck behind.” Pope’s version of the lines in both his 1725 and 1728 editions of Shakespeare (Griffith 149 and 210) does not commit the errors of the inscription and prints, “Leave not a rack behind!”[23] The bantering note about the monument which begins _The Dunciad B_ may have been prompted by this passage in _The Blatant Beast_ as well as by the comment of Theobald which Sutherland refers to. But it is the shrill personal abuse of Pope’s deformity and moral obliquity, The Morals blacken’d when the Writings scape; The libel’d Person, and the pictur’d Shape (_Epistle to Arbuthnot_, ll. 353-353) which is most impressive. The writer shows a talent for invective, but there is a good deal of evidence that he was well-read in other Pope attacks. The phrase, Pope’s “Mountain Shoulders,” (p. 5) recalls Pope’s “Mountain Back” in _The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue_, p. 5, published in August 1742. The image of the wasp (pp. 6, 10) had appeared in Hervey’s and Lady Mary’s _Verses Address’d to the Imitator Of ... Horace_ (1733), p. 7,[24] as had the metaphor of Pope as Satan (pp. 5-6) with which _The Blatant Beast_ opens.[25]