After the Dunciad, 1728. : An Essay on the Dunciad. Octavo, printed for J. Roberts. [In this book, p. 9. it was formally declared, ‘That the complaint of the aforesaid Libels and Advertise- ments was forged and untrue; that all mouths had been silent, except in Mr. Pope’s praise; and nothing against him published, but by Mr. Theobald.’] Sawney, in blank verse, occasioned by the Dunciad; with a Critique on that Poem.

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It was for a passage of this book: For the offence given by Blackmore’s condemnation in his Essays of the poem Curll printed in 1716 as ‘A Roman Catholick Version of the First Psalm’, see notes on II.268.