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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 268. 



There is no bastard title. 



Book the First commences on p. 1. and ends on 

 p. 14. 



At p. 5., in note *, after " Sir Geo. Tho " is 



added " Lord Mayor of London." 



Page 7. Two notes are inserted : " Old prin- 

 ters,"°" Philemon Holland." 



Book the Second commences on p. 15. and ends 

 at p. 35., with a different woodcut ornament from 

 that in the preceding. 



Page 22. On line — 



" Earless on high stood pillory'd D ," 



there is the following note : 



" It appears from hence that Mr. Curl had not himself 

 stood in tiie pillorywhen this poem was writ, which hap- 

 pen'd not till March, 1728, at Charing Cross." 



Page 23., line 159., "spirts." 



Book the Third commences on p. 36. and con- 

 cludes on p. 51. 



This edition has not the advertisement of Pro- 

 gress of Dulness. 



Lastly, we may notice that in this edition " fu- 

 rious D — n " is altered to " furious D — s." 

 " And furious D s foam in W 's rage." 



We now come to an edition which probably 

 preceded the one we have just described, it having 

 certainly been printed from a copy of A., B., or C. 



(E ) THE DDNCIAD. AN HEROIC POEM. IN 

 THREE BOOKS. WRITTEN BY MR. POPE. LONDON : 

 PRINTED, AND DUBLIN REPRINTED BY AND FOR 

 G. FAULKNER, J. HOEY, J. LEATHLEY, E. HAMIL- 

 TON, P. CRAMPTON, AND T. BENSON, MDCCXXVIII., 



12mo., or rather very small 8vo., being printed in 

 eights. No frontispiece. 



Page iii. "The Publisher to the Header," 

 ■which extends to p. vi., and is the same as in the 

 preceding Edition A. 



Page 7. 2'he Dunciad. Book the First, which 

 ends at p. 17. 1. 250. : 



" And the loud nation croak'd, God save King Log ! " 



Page 18. The Dunciad. Book the Second. 

 This ends on p. 34. with 1. 382. : 



" (Haunt of the Muses) made their safe retreat." 



Page 35. The Dunciad. Book the Third. 

 This ends on p. 47. with lines 285-6. : 



" No more the jMonarch could such raptures bear, 

 He wak'd, and all the Vision mix'd with air." 



Finis. 



In this edition the names are given at^ length, 

 and not, as in the preceding, with the initials. 

 Thus book i. 1. 94. reads, — 

 "And furious Dry den foam in Wharton's rage ;" 

 and line 234. : 



" Something between a llungerford and Owl." 



(To he continued.') 



Pope's Skull (Vol. X., p. 418.). — That the 

 grave of Pope has been disturbed I have no 

 doubt, for, about twenty or twenty-five years ago, 

 an old gentleman (who is. since dead) told me he 

 had himself seen the bones of Pope the poet when 

 the vault or grave was opened at tlie period re- 

 ferred to. And in a kind of Annual or Album 

 for some year about 1825 or 1830, which was ly- 

 ing on the table where I was staying, there were 

 some lines severely animadverting upon the above 

 circumstance, which appeared to have been just 

 perpetrated. 



Besides this, I was once a member of a literary 

 and scientific institution which was held in Hack- 

 ney Road, when a lecture was given on Phreno- 

 logy. The lecturer (whose name I forget) was 

 showing that the parts of the cranium where the 

 particular organs which were most exercised were 

 situated became thinner, and vice versa. " Now," 

 said the lecturer, holding up 



" The dome of thought, the palace of the soul," 



as Byron finely expresses It (but which, by the 

 way, is borrowed from Waller's verses upon 

 " Tea "), and placing It near the light, " you will 

 perceive that the os frontis is here nearly trans- 

 parent, while the back part has twice the sub- 

 stance ; showing the person to whom it belonged 

 must have passed his life in continual study and 

 contemplation. This, ladles and gentlemen, is the 

 skull of Pope the poet ! " The sensation caused 

 by this announcement was such, that at the con- 

 clusion of the lecture there was a general rush to 

 view it nearer, as it lay a few minutes on the 

 table previous to its being put away ; and I have 

 never seen or heard of it from that time, some 

 twelve or fifteen years, to the present. 



And now we are upon the subject of Pope, can 

 any one inform nie where, and in what church, 

 the monument is placed which is referred to in the 

 following lines from Epistle III., Moral Essays f 



" When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend 

 The wretch, who living saved a candle's end. 

 Shouldering God's altar, a vile image stands, 

 Belies his features, nay, extends his hands. 

 That live-long wig, w'hich Gorgon's self might own, 

 Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone." 



I may remark that " Vulture Hopkins," as he 

 was called, lived somewhere near Peckham, Nor- 

 wood, or C!amberwell.* W. B. 



Dalston. 



P. S. — You are no doubt aware that the skull 

 of Swift, and I think also of Stella, Is preserved 

 in the museum of Trinity College, Dublin, with 

 that of the Duke of Schomberg, killed at the 

 battle of the Boyne. 



[* Vulture Hopkins was buried in Wimbledon Church. 

 See Lysons' Environs, vol. i. p. 534.] 



