The Dunciad

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Excerpt from The Dunciad: With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of ScriblerusI had feen any inclination ln my friend to be ferious with fuch accufers, or if they.had only meddled with his writings: Iince Who ever publifhes, puts himfelf on his tryal by his country. But when his Moral character was attack'd, and in a manner from which neither truth' nor virtue can fecure: the moft Innocent, in'a manner 'which though it annihilates the credit of the accufation with the ju¿: and impartial, yet aggravates very much the guilt of the accufer, (i mean by authors without ¿ame: Then I thought, fince the danger was common to all, the concern ought to be f0, and that it was an a8, of jul'tice to detect the Au thors, not only on this account, but as many of them are the fame who for fe veral years paf'r, have made free with the greatef't names in Church and State, ex pos'd to the world the private misfor tunes of Families, abus'd all even to Wo men, and whole proftituted papers (for.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.