WORKS O F ALEXANDER POPE, Efq; VOL. IV. CONTAINING the DUNCIAD, WITH THE Prolegomena of SCRIBLERUS, AND NOTES VARIORUM. LONDON: Printed for L. GILLIVER, and J. CLARKE, 3 PREFACE Prefix'd to the five first imperfect Editions of the DUNCIAD, printed at Dublin and London, in Octavo and Duod. 1727. I a The PUBLISHER to the READER. T will be found a true obfervation, tho' fomewhat furprizing, that when any scandal is vented against a man of the highest diftinction and character, either in the State or in Literature, the publick a The Publifher. Who he was is uncertain; but Edward Ward tells us in his preface to Durgen, "that "moft judges are of opinion this preface is not of English extraction but Hibernian, &c." He means Dr. Swift, who whether publisher or not, may be faid in a fort to be author of the poem: For when ་་ |