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diff --git a/28105.txt b/28105.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4656a1e --- /dev/null +++ b/28105.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2764 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726), +by Anonymous, Edited by Samuel L. Macey + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) + [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Samuel L. Macey + +Release Date: February 17, 2009 [eBook #28105] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LEARNED DISSERTATION ON DUMPLING +(1726)*** + + +E-text prepared by Louise Hope, Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, and the +Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team +(http://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Transcriber's note: + + Except for [Illustration] labels and similar, all brackets [] are + in the original. + + + + + + The Augustan Reprint Society + + + A Learned Dissertation + on + DUMPLING + (Anonymous) + (1726) + + + PUDDING AND DUMPLING + _BURNT to POT_. + or, + A COMPLEAT KEY + to the + DISSERTATION ON DUMPLING + (Anonymous) + (1727) + + + _Introduction by_ + SAMUEL L. MACEY + + + Publication Number 140 + WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY + University of California, Los Angeles + + 1970 + + * * * * * + * * * * + +GENERAL EDITORS + + William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ + George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ + Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ + +ASSOCIATE EDITOR + + David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_ + +ADVISORY EDITORS + + Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ + James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ + Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ + Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ + Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ + Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ + Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ + Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ + Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ + Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ + James Sutherland, _University College, London_ + H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ + Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ + +CORRESPONDING SECRETARY + + Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ + +EDITORIAL ASSISTANT + + Roberta Medford, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +_A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling_ and its _Key_ (_Pudding and +Dumpling Burnt to Pot_) are typical satiric pamphlets which grew out of +the political in-fighting of the first half of the eighteenth century. +The pamphlets are distinguished by the fact that the author's level of +imagination and writing makes them delightful reading even today. In +_Dumpling_ the author displays a considerable knowledge of cooks and +cookery in London; by insinuating that to love dumpling is to love +corruption, he effectively and amusingly achieves satiric indirection +against a number of political and social targets, including Walpole. The +_Key_ is in many ways a separate pamphlet in which Swift is the central +figure under attack after his two secret visits to Walpole during 1726. +_Dumpling_ had a long life for an eighteenth-century pamphlet and was +published as late as 1770. Dr. F. T. Wood has even suggested that it may +have influenced Lamb's _Dissertation on Roast Pig_;[1] readers might +wish to test this for themselves. + +_Dumpling_ and its _Key_ were first claimed for Henry Carey by Dr. Wood +(pp. 442-447). Carey (1687-1743) is generally thought to have been an +illegitimate scion of the powerful Savile family,[2] with whose name he +christened three of his sons. He was perhaps best known as a writer of +songs. "Sally in our Alley" is a classic, and he has even a tenuous +claim to the authorship of the English national anthem. Carey's +_Dramatic Works_ appeared in 1743, the year in which he met his death, +almost certainly by his own hand. Several of the plays were successful +and particular reference should be made to the burlesques +_Chrononhotonthologos_ (1734) and _The Dragon of Wantley_ (1737). The +latter even outran the performances of _The Beggar's Opera_ in its first +year. Not only do these plays show Carey's satiric bent, but so also do +a considerable number of his poems. In 1713, 1720, and 1729 Carey +published three different collections of his poetry, each entitled +_Poems on Several Occasions_. Although a few of the poems were repeated, +almost always revised, each edition is very much a different collection. +An edition was brought out in this century by Dr. Wood.[3] + +I am strongly inclined to support Carey's claim to the authorship of +_Dumpling_ and its _Key_ despite Dr. E. L. Oldfield's more recent +attempt to invalidate it.[4] There were at least ten editions of +_Dumpling_ in the eighteenth century. The first seven (1726-27) appeared +during Carey's life, and these (I have seen all but the third) contain +the _Namby Pamby_ verses which later appeared under Carey's own name in +his enlarged _Poems on Several Occasions_ (1729). There was also a +"sixth edition" of _Dumpling_ (really the eighth extant edition) in +Carey's own name published "for T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Friars, +Fleet-Street, MDCCXLIV." Though _Namby Pamby_ was not added to the first +edition of the _Key_, it appears in the second edition. Both editions +were published by Mrs. Dodd, of whom Dr. Oldfield says: she "seems to +have been a neighbour, and known to Carey" (p. 375). Dr. Wood indicates +that "at the foot of a folio sheet containing Carey's song _Mocking is +Catching_, published in 1726, the sixth edition of _A Learned +Dissertation on Dumpling_ is advertised as having been lately published" +(p. 442). Dr. Wood adds in a footnote that this song "appeared in _The +Musical Century_ (1740) under the title _A Sorrowful Lamentation for the +Loss of a Man and No Man_." Even more striking would seem to be the fact +that although there are ninety-one entries in his _Poems_ (1729), Carey +has placed the _Sorrowful Lamentation_ directly adjacent to _Namby +Pamby_. + +Dr. Wood maintains of _Dumpling_ that "the general style bears a close +resemblance to that of the prefaces to Carey's plays and collections +of poetry" (p. 443). I should like strongly to support his statement. +Dr. Oldfield says that an inviolable regard for decency "is nowhere +contradicted in Carey's works . . . . Yet the pamphlets, besides being +palpably Whiggish, are larded _passim_ with vulgarity of the +'Close-Stool' and 'Clyster' variety" (p. 376). The reader need look no +further than _Namby Pamby_ to see that Carey satisfies Northrop Frye's +very proper observation: "Genius seems to have led practically every +great satirist to become what the world calls obscene." + +As for the pamphlets being "palpably Whiggish," the reader will not look +far into the allegory before he realizes that one of the central attacks +is against those well-known Whigs Walpole and Marlborough and their +appetite for Dumpling (i.e., bribery and perquisites). Furthermore, the +attack on Swift, which is central to the _Key_, is based on the very +real fear that the Dean's two recent private interviews with Walpole +might presage a return to that leader's Whig party in exchange for +Dumpling. The last pages of the _Key_ (pp. 28-30) deal with the +possibility of an accommodation between Swift and Walpole which is, +I feel sure, the main target of attack. In his poems (_Poems_, ed. Wood, +pp. 83, 86, 88, and _passim_) Carey claims to stand between Whig and +Tory, just as he does in the pamphlets (_Dumpling_, p. 1, and _Key_, +p. 15 and _passim_). + +Dr. Wood perceptively points to two parallels between _Dumpling_ and the +satiric _Of Stage Tyrants_ (1735) which Carey openly addressed to the +Earl of Chesterfield. _Dumpling's_ "O Braund, my Patron! my Pleasure! +my Pride" (p. [ii]) becomes: "O Chesterfield, my patron and my pride" +(_Poems_, ed. Wood, p. 104). The passage which follows, dealing with +"all the Monkey-Tricks of Rival Harlequins" (_Dumpling_, p. [ii]), +becomes: + + Prefer pure nature and the simple scene + To all the monkey tricks of Harlequin + + (_Poems_, ed. Wood, p. 106). + +Even more striking is a passage in the _Key_: "Mr. B[ooth] had spoken to +Mr. W[ilks] to speak to Mr. C[ibber] . . ." (p. 111). This is similar to +the following lines in _Stage Tyrants_: + + Booth ever shew'd me friendship and respect, + And Wilks would rather forward than reject. + Ev'n Cibber, terror to the scribbling crew, + Would oft solicit me for something new + + (_Poems_, ed. Wood, p. 104). + +What is particularly impressive is that Carey not only refers to the +three managers of Drury Lane but mentions them in the same order and as +bearing the same relationship to himself. Several highly topical +theatrical allusions in the pamphlets, by which the works can be dated, +accord closely to the life, views, and writings of Carey. All three +managers of Drury Lane were subscribers to Carey's _Poems on Several +Occasions_ (1729), which was dedicated to the Countess of Burlington, +who (like the Earl of Chesterfield) was closely related to Carey's +putative family. In the _Poems_ these people and many others (including +Pope) would have seen _Namby Pamby_ under Carey's name and drawn the +obvious conclusion that _Namby Pamby_, _Dumpling_ and the _Key_ were by +the same author. + +We have already seen how closely _Dumpling_ and _Stage Tyrants_ can be +tied together; the reader can compare for himself that part of _Namby +Pamby_ containing "So the Nurses get by Heart / Namby Pamby's Little +Rhymes," with the passage from the _Key_: "It was here the D[ean] . . . +got together all his Namby Pamby . . . from the old Nurses thereabouts" +(_Key_, pp. 16-17). + +There exists in the Bodleian an early copy of _Namby Pamby_ (1725?) "By +Capt. Gordon, Author of the Apology for Parson Alberony and the +Humorist." The joke here is surely in not only letting the Whig Gordon +attack the Whig Ambrose Phillips but then, also by association, +connecting Gordon's name with the attack on Walpole and Marlborough. +There is a parallel to this: Carey's "Lilliputian Ode on Their Majesties +Succession" appeared in _Poems_ (1729), separated from the pieces +previously mentioned by only one short patriotic stanza. Yet in the +Huntington Library there is an almost identical version (1727) which was +ostensibly published by Swift. + +The first six editions of _Dumpling_ appeared in 1726 and both editions +of the _Key_ are dated 1727. Apart from the dates on the title page, +this can be verified externally by the initial entries in Wilford's +_Monthly Catalogue_ (1723-30) of February 1726 and April 1727 +respectively. Swift's first return visit to England (in March 1726 after +twelve years) was subsequent to the publication of _Dumpling_; his +second visit was in the same month as the publication of the _Key_, +which assigns him _ex post facto_ the authorship "from Page 1. to Page +25." of _Dumpling_ (_Key_, p. ix). + +Sir John Pudding and his Dumpling are manipulated throughout these +pamphlets to carry a multiplicity of meaning which brings them almost as +close to symbolism as they are to the allegory that Carey claims to be +writing (_Key_, pp. 18, 24 and 29). Collation of _Dumpling_ with its +_Key_ clearly reveals (with due allowance for satiric arabesque) +a series of allegories moving backwards and forwards through history. At +various stages, Sir John Pudding (ostensibly Brawn [or John Brand], the +famous cook of the Rummer in Queen Street who appears in Dr. King's _Art +of Cookery_ [1708]), becomes identifiable with King John, Sir John +Falstaff, Walpole, Marlborough, and even Queen Anne (for the change in +sexes see _Key_, p. 18). All of these enjoyed Dumpling, and their tastes +are ostensibly approved while at the same time being heavily undercut +with satiric indirection. Naturally enough, Walpole (although a Dumpling +Eater) is treated with considerable circumspection. Carey has warned us +that he is a bad chronologist (_Key_, p. 21), and the Sir John Pudding +(be he Walpole or Marlborough [d. 1722]), who at the end of _Dumpling_ +is referred to as "the Hero of this DUMPLEID," is for good reason spoken +of in the past tense. + +The fable of Dumpling, in the true spirit of _lanx satura_, allows Carey +to attack by indirection a complete spectrum of traditional +eighteenth-century targets. Like the musician and the satirist that he +is, he builds up to a magnificent crescendo (pp. 19-24 of his +"Dumpleid") which results in one of the finest displays of sustained +virtuosity in early eighteenth-century pamphlet writing. + +The notes which follow the texts point to a number of the contemporary +allusions, but the reader will surely wish to recognize some of the +references and the more delicate ironies for himself. As the author puts +it on page 17 of _Dumpling_: + +O wou'd to Heav'n this little Attempt of Mine may stir up some +_Pudding-headed Antiquary_ to dig his Way through all the mouldy Records +of Antiquity, and bring to Light the Noble Actions of Sir _John_! + +What scholar could refuse? + +University of Victoria + + +NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION + +1. "An Eighteenth-Century Original for Lamb," _RES_, V (1929), 447. + +2. An exception is Henry J. Dane who denies the relationship in "The +Life and Works of Henry Carey," unpublished doctoral dissertation +(University of Pennsylvania, 1967), pp. xxix-xxx, and _passim_. + +3. _Poems_, ed. F. T. Wood (London, 1930). + +4. "Henry Carey (1687-1743) and Some Troublesome Attributions," _BNYPL_, +LXII (1968), 372-377. + + + + +BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE + + +These facsimiles of _A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling_ (1726) and +_Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot_ (1727) are reproduced from copies +in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. + + + * * * * * + * * * * + * * * * * + + + A + Learned Dissertation + on + DUMPLING; + + Its Dignity, Antiquity, and Excellence. + + With a Word upon + PUDDING. + + And + + Many other Useful Discoveries, of + great Benefit to the Publick. + + + _Quid Farto melius? + Huic suam agnoscit corpus energiam, + Suam aciem mens: ------------ + ---- Hinc adoleverunt praestantissimi, + Hi Fartophagi in Reipublicae commodum._ + + _Mab._ de Fartophagis, _lib._ iii. _cap._ 2. + + + _LONDON._ + + Printed for _J. Roberts_ in the _Oxford-Arms_-Passage, + _Warwick-lane_; and Sold by the Booksellers of + _London_ and _Westminster_. 1726. [Price 6 _d._] + + + + +[Decoration] + + TO + Mr. BRAUND. + + +SIR, + +Let Mercenary _Authors_ flatter the Great, and subject +their Principle to Interest and Ambition, I scorn such +sordid Views; You only are Eminent in my Eyes: On You +I look as the most Useful Member in a Body-Politic, +and your Art far superior to all others: Therefore, + + _Tu mihi Mecaenas Eris!_ + +O BRAUND, my Patron! my Pleasure! my Pride! disdain +not to grace my Labours with a kind Perusal. Suspend +a-while your more momentous Cares, and condescend to +taste this little _Fricassee_ of Mine. + +I write not this, to Bite you by the Ear, (_i.e._) +flatter you out of a Brace or two of Guinea's: No; +as I am a true _Dumpling Eater_, my Views are purely +_Epicurean_, and my utmost Hopes center'd in partaking +of some elegant _Quelque Chose_ tost up by your +judicious Hand. I regard Money but as a Ticket which +admits me to your Delicate Entertainments; to me much +more Agreeable than all the Monkey-Tricks of Rival +_Harlequins_, or _Puppet-Show_ Finery of Contending +_Theatres_. + +The Plague and fatigue of Dependance and Attendance, +which call me so often to the Court-end of the Town, +were insupportable, but for the Relief I find at +AUSTIN's, your Ingenious and Grateful Disciple, who +has adorn'd _New Bond-street_ with your Graceful +_Effigies_. Nor can he fail of Custom who has hung out +a Sign so Alluring to all true _Dumpling-Eaters_. Many +a time and oft have I gaz'd with Pleasure on your +Features, and trac'd in them the exact Lineaments of +your glorious Ancestor Sir JOHN BRAND, vulgarly call'd +Sir JOHN PUDDING. + +Tho' the Corruption of our _English_ Orthography +indulges some appearance of Distinction between BRAND +and BRAUND, yet in Effect they are one and the same +thing. The ancient Manor of BRAND's, alias BRAUND's, +near Kilburn in _Middlesex_, was the very Manor-House +of Sir JOHN BRAND, and is call'd BRAND's to this Day, +altho' at present it be in the Possession of the +Family of MARSH. + +What Honours are therefore due to One who is in a +Direct Male Line, an Immediate Descendant from the +Loins of that Great Man! Let this teach You to value +your Self; this remind the World, how much they owe to +the Family of the BRAUNDS; more particularly to YOU, +who inherit not only the Name, but the Virtues of your +Illustrious Ancestor. I am, + + SIR, + + With all imaginable + Esteem and Gratitude, + Your very most + Obedient Servant, _&c._ + +Page 5. line 15, _&c._ for _Barnes_ read _Brand_. + + + + +[Decoration] + + + A + + Learned Dissertation + + on + + DUMPLING; + + Its Dignity, Antiquity, _&c._ + + +The Dumpling-Eaters are a Race sprung partly from the +old _Epicurean_, and partly from the _Peripatetic +Sect_; they were brought first into _Britain_ by +_Julius Cesar_; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they +wisely resolv'd never to go Home again. Their +Doctrines are Amphibious, and compos'd _Party per +Pale_ of the two Sects before-mention'd; from the +_Peripatetics_, they derive their Principle of +Walking, as a proper Method to digest a Meal, or +create an Appetite; from the _Epicureans_, they +maintain that all Pleasures are comprehended in good +Eating and Drinking: And so readily were their +Opinions embrac'd, that every Day produc'd many +Proselytes; and their Numbers have from Age to Age +increas'd prodigiously, insomuch that our whole Island +is over-run with them, at present. Eating and Drinking +are become so Customary among us that we seem to have +entirely forgot, and laid aside the old Fashion of +Fasting: Instead of having Wine sold at Apothecaries +Shops, as formerly, every Street has two or three +Taverns in it, least these Dumpling-Eaters should +faint by the Way; nay, so zealous are they in the +Cause of _Bacchus_, that one of the Chief among 'em +has made a Vow never to say his Prayers 'till he has a +Tavern of _his own_ in every Street in _London_, and +in every Market-Town in _England_. What may we then in +Time expect? Since by insensible Degrees, their +Society is become so numerous and formidable, that +they are without Number; other Bodies have their +Meetings, but where can the Dumpling-Eaters assemble? +what Place large enough to contain 'em! The _Bank_, +_India_, and _South-Sea_ Companies have their General +Courts, the _Free-Masons_ and the _Gormogons_ their +Chapters; nay, our Friends the _Quakers_ have their +Yearly Meetings. And who would imagine any of these +should be Dumpling-Eaters? But thus it is, the +Dumpling-Eating Doctrine has so far prevailed among +'em, that they eat not only Dumplings, but _Puddings_, +and those in no small Quantities. + +The Dumpling is indeed, of more antient Institution, +and of _Foreign_ Origin; but alas, what were those +Dumplings? nothing but a few Lentils sodden together, +moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd Fat, not +much unlike our Gritt or Oatmeal Pudding; yet were +they of such Esteem among the ancient _Romans_, that a +Statue was erected to _Fulvius Agricola_, the first +Inventor of these Lentil Dumplings. How unlike the +Gratitude shewn by the Publick to our Modern +Projectors! + +The _Romans_, tho' our Conquerors, found themselves +much out-done in Dumplings by our Fore-fathers; the +_Roman_ Dumplings were no more to compare to those +made by the _Britons_, than a Stone-Dumpling is to a +Marrow Pudding; tho' indeed, the _British_ Dumpling at +that time, was little better than what we call a +Stone-Dumpling, being no thing else but Flour and +Water: But every Generation growing wiser and wiser, +the Project was improv'd, and Dumpling grew to be +Pudding: One Projector found Milk better than Water; +another introduc'd Butter; some added Marrow, others +Plumbs; and some found out the Use of Sugar; so that, +to speak Truth, we know not where to fix the Genealogy +or Chronology of any of these Pudding Projectors, +to the Reproach of our Historians, who eat so much +Pudding, yet have been so Ungrateful to the first +Professors of this most noble Science, as not to find +'em a Place in History. + +The Invention of Eggs was merely accidental, two or +three of which having casually roll'd from off a Shelf +into a Pudding which a good Wife was making, she found +herself under a Necessity either of throwing away her +Pudding, or letting the Eggs remain, but concluding +from the innocent Quality of the Eggs, that they would +do no Hurt, if they did no Good. She wisely jumbl'd +'em all together, after having carefully pick'd out +the Shells; the Consequence is easily imagined, the +Pudding became a Pudding of Puddings; and the Use of +Eggs from thence took its Date. The Woman was sent for +to Court to make Puddings for King _John_, who then +sway'd the Scepter; and gain'd such Favour, that she +was the making of her whole Family. I cannot conclude +this Paragraph without owning, I received this +important Part of the History of Pudding from old Mr. +_Lawrence_ of _Wilsden-Green_, the greatest Antiquary +of the present Age. + +From that Time the _English_ became so famous for +Puddings, that they are call'd Pudding-Eaters all over +the World, to this Day. + +At her Demise, her Son was taken into Favour, and made +the King's chief Cook; and so great was his Fame for +Puddings, that he was call'd _Jack Pudding_ all over +the Kingdom, tho' in Truth, his real Name was _John +Brand_, as by the Records of the Kitchen you will +find: This _John Brand_, or _Jack-Pudding_, call him +which you please, the _French_ have it _Jean Boudin_, +for his Fame had reached _France_, whose King would +have given the World to have had our _Jack_ for his +Pudding-Maker. This _Jack Pudding_, I say, became yet +a greater Favourite than his Mother, insomuch that he +had the King's Ear as well as his Mouth at Command; +for the King, you must know, was a mighty Lover of +Pudding; and _Jack_ fitted him to a Hair, he knew how +to make the most of a Pudding; no Pudding came amiss +to him, he would make a Pudding out of a Flint-stone, +comparatively speaking. It is needless to enumerate +the many sorts of Pudding he made, such as Plain +Pudding, Plumb Pudding, Marrow Pudding, Oatmeal +Pudding, Carrot Pudding, Saucesage Pudding, Bread +Pudding, Flower Pudding, Suet Pudding, and in short, +every Pudding but Quaking Pudding, which was solely +invented by, and took its Name from our Good Friends +of the _Bull and Mouth_ before mentioned, +notwithstanding the many Pretenders to that +Projection. + +But what rais'd our Hero most in the Esteem of this +Pudding-eating Monarch, was his Second Edition of +Pudding, he being the first that ever invented the Art +of Broiling Puddings, which he did to such Perfection, +and so much to the King's likeing, (who had a mortal +Aversion to Cold Pudding,) that he thereupon +instituted him Knight of the Gridiron, and gave him a +Gridiron of Gold, the Ensign of that Order, which he +always wore as a Mark of his Sovereign's Favour; in +short, _Jack Pudding_, or Sir _John_, grew to be all +in all with good King _John_; he did nothing without +him, they were Finger and Glove; and, if we may +believe Tradition, our very good Friend had no small +Hand in the _Magna Charta_. If so, how much are all +_Englishmen_ indebted to him? in what Repute ought the +Order of the Gridiron to be, which was instituted to +do Honour to this Wonderful Man? But alas! how soon is +Merit forgot? how impudently do the Vulgar turn the +most serious Things into Ridicule, and mock the most +solemn Trophies of Honour? for now every Fool at a +Fair, or Zany at a Mountebank's Stage, is call'd _Jack +Pudding_, has a Gridiron at his Back, and a great Pair +of Spectacles at his Buttocks, to ridicule the most +noble Order of the Gridiron. But their Spectacles is a +most ungrateful Reflection on the Memory of that great +Man, whose indefatigable Application to his Business, +and deep Study in that occult Science, rendred him +Poreblind; to remedy which Misfortune, he had always a +'Squire follow'd him, bearing a huge Pair of +Spectacles to saddle his Honour's Nose, and supply his +much-lamented Defect of Sight. But whether such an +Unhappiness did not deserve rather Pity than Ridicule, +I leave to the Determination of all good Christians: +I cannot but say, it raises my Indignation, when I see +these Paunch-gutted Fellows usurping the Title and +Atchievements of my dear Sir _John_, whose Memory I so +much venerate, I cannot always contain my self. +I remember, to my Cost, I once carry'd my Resentment a +little farther than ordinary; in furiously assaulting +one of those Rascals, I tore the Gridiron from his +Back, and the Spectacles from his A--e; for which I +was Apprehended, carried to Pye-powder Court, and by +that tremendous Bench, sentenc'd to most severe Pains +and Penalties. + +This has indeed a little tam'd me, insomuch that I +keep my Fingers to my self, but at the same time let +my Tongue run like a Devil: Forbear vile Miscreants, +cry I, where-e'er I meet these Wretches? forbear to +ascribe to your selves the Name and Honours of Sir +_John Pudding_? content your selves with being +_Zanies_, _Pickled-Herrings_, _Punchionellos_, but +dare not scandalize the noble Name of _Pudding_: Nor +can I, notwithstanding the Clamours and Ill Usage of +the Vulgar, refrain bearing my Testimony against this +manifest piece of Injustice. + +What Pity it is therefore, so noble an Order should be +lost, or at least neglected. We have had no Account of +the real Knights of the Gridiron, since they appeared +under the fictitious Name of the _Kit-Kat Club_: In +their Possession was the very Gridiron of Gold worn by +Sir _John_ himself; which Identical Gridiron dignified +the Breast of the most ingenious Mr. _Richard +Estcourt_ that excellent Physician and Comedian, who +was President of that Noble Society. + + _Quis talia fando temperet a Lachrymis?_ + +What is become of the Gridiron, or of the Remains of +that excellent Body of Men, Time will, I hope, +discover. The World, I believe, must for such +Discoveries be obliged to my very good Friend _J---- +T----_ Esq; who had the Honour to be Door-keeper to +that Honourable Assembly. + + +But to return to Sir _John_: The more his Wit engaged +the King, the more his Grandeur alarm'd his Enemies, +who encreas'd with his Honours. Not but the Courtiers +caress'd him to a Man, as the first who had brought +Dumpling-eating to Perfection. King _John_ himself +lov'd him entirely; being of _Cesar_'s Mind, that is, +he had a natural Antipathy against Meagre, +Herring-gutted Wretches; he lov'd only _Fat-headed +Men, and such who slept o' Nights_; and of such was +his whole Court compos'd. Now it was Sir _John_'s +Method, every _Sunday_ Morning, to give the Courtiers +a Breakfast, which Breakfast was every Man his +Dumpling and Cup of Wine; for you must know, he was +Yeoman of the Wine-Cellar at the same time. + +This was a great Eye-sore and Heart-burning to some +Lubberly Abbots who loung'd about the Court; they took +it in great Dudgeon they were not Invited, and stuck +so close to his Skirts, that they never rested 'till +they Outed him. They told the King, who was naturally +very Hasty, that Sir _John_ made-away with his Wine, +and feasted his Paramours at his Expence; and not only +so, but that they were forming a Design against his +Life, which they in Conscience ought to discover: That +Sir _John_ was not only an Heretic, but an Heathen; +nay worse, they fear'd he was a Witch, and that he had +bewitcht His Majesty into that unaccountable Fondness +for a _Pudding-Maker_. They assur'd the King, That on +a _Sunday_ Morning, instead of being at Mattins, he +and his Trigrimates got together Hum-jum, all snug, +and perform'd many Hellish and Diabolical Ceremonies. +In short, they made the King believe that the Moon was +made of Green-Cheese: And to shew how the Innocent may +be Bely'd, and the best Intentions misrepresented, +they told the King, That He and his Associates offer'd +Sacrifices to _Ceres_: When, alas, it was only the +Dumplings they eat. The Butter which was melted and +pour'd over them, these vile Miscreants call'd +_Libations_: And the friendly Compotations of our +Dumpling-eaters, were call'd _Bacchanalian Rites_. Two +or three among 'em being sweet-tooth'd, wou'd strew a +little Sugar over their Dumplings; this was +represented as an _Heathenish Offering_. In short, not +one Action of theirs, but what these Rascally Abbots +made Criminal, and never let the King alone 'till poor +Sir _John_ was Discarded. Not but the King did it with +the greatest Reluctance; but they had made it a +Religious Concern, and he cou'd not get off on't. + +But mark the Consequence: The King never enjoy'd +himself after, nor was it long before he was poison'd +by a Monk at _Swineshead_ Abbey. Then too late he saw +his Error; then he lamented the Loss of Sir _John_; +and in his latest Moments wou'd cry out, Oh! that I +had never parted from my dear _Jack Pudding_! Wou'd I +had never left off Pudding and Dumpling! I then had +never been thus basely Poison'd! never thus +treacherously sent out of the World!----Thus did this +good King lament: But, alas, to no Purpose, the Priest +had given him his Bane, and Complaints were +ineffectual. + +Sir _John_, in the mean time, had retir'd into +_Norfolk_, where his diffusive Knowledge extended it +self for the Good of the County in general; and from +that very Cause _Norfolk_ has ever since been so +famous for Dumplings. He lamented the King's Death to +his very last; and was so cautious of being poison'd +by the Priests, that he never touch'd a Wafer to the +Day of his Death; And had it not been that some of the +less-designing part of the Clergy were his intimate +Friends, and eat daily of his Dumplings, he had +doubtless been Made-away with; but they stood in the +Gap for him, for the sake of his Dumplings, knowing +that when Sir _John_ was gone, they should never have +the like again. + +But our facetious Knight was too free of his Talk to +be long secure; for a Hole was pick'd in his Coat in +the succeeding Reign, and poor Sir _John_ had all his +Goods and Chattels forfeited to the King's Use. It was +then time for him to bestir himself; and away to Court +he goes, to recover his Lands, _&c._ not doubting but +he had Friends there sufficient to carry his Cause. + +But alas! how was he mistaken; not a Soul there knew +him; the very Porters used him rudely. In vain did he +seek for Access to the King, to vindicate his Conduct. +In vain did he claim Acquaintance with the Lords of +the Court; and reap up old Civilities, to remind 'em +of former Kindness; the Pudding was eat, the +Obligation was over: Which made Sir _John_ compose +that excellent Proverb, _Not a word of the Pudding_. +And finding all Means ineffectual, he left the Court +in a great Pet; yet not without passing a severe Joke +upon 'em, in his way, which was this; He sent a +Pudding to the King's Table, under the Name of a +_Court-Pudding_, or _Promise-Pudding_. This Pudding he +did not fail to set off with large Encomiums; assuring +the King, That therein he wou'd find an Hieroglyphical +Definition of Courtiers Promises and Friendship. + +This caused some Speculation; and the King's Physician +debarr'd the King from tasting the Pudding, not +knowing but that Sir _John_ had poison'd it. + +But how great a Fit of Laughter ensu'd, may be easily +guess'd, when the Pudding was cut up, it prov'd only a +large Bladder, just clos'd over with Paste: The +Bladder was full of Wind, and nothing else, excepting +these Verses written in a Roll of Paper, and put in, +as is suppos'd, before the Bladder was blown full: + + As Wynde in a Bladdere ypent, + is Lordings promyse and ferment; + fain what hem lust withouten drede, + they bene so double in her falshede: + For they in heart can think ene thing, + and fain another in her speaking: + and what was sweet and apparent, + is smaterlich, and eke yshent. + and when of service you have nede, + pardie he will not rein nor rede. + but when the Symnel it is eten, + her curtesse is all foryetten. + +This Adventure met with various Constructions from +those at Table: Some Laugh'd; others Frown'd. But the +King took the Joke by the right End, and Laugh'd +outright. + +The Verses, tho' but scurvy ones in themselves, yet in +those Days pass'd for tolerable: Nay, the King was +mightily pleas'd with 'em, and play'd 'em off on his +Courtiers as Occasion serv'd; he wou'd stop 'em short +in the middle of a flattering Harangue, and cry, _Not +a Word of the Pudding_. This wou'd daunt and mortify +'em to the last degree; they curs'd Sir _John_ a +thousand times over for the Proverb's sake: but to no +Purpose; for the King gave him a private Hearing: +In which he so well satisfy'd His Majesty of his +Innocence and Integrity, that all his Lands were +restor'd. The King wou'd have put him in his old Post; +but he modestly declin'd it, but at the same time +presented His Majesty with a Book of most excellent +Receipts for all kinds of Puddings: Which Book His +Majesty receiv'd with all imaginable Kindness, and +kept it among his greatest Rarities. + +But yet, as the best Instructions, tho' never so +strictly followed, may not be always as successfully +executed, so not one of the King's Cooks cou'd make a +Pudding like Sir _John_; nay, tho' he made a Pudding +before their Eyes, yet they out of the very same +Materials could not do the like. Which made his old +Friends the Monks attribute it to Witchcraft, and it +was currently reported the Devil was his Helper. But +good King _Harry_ was not to be fobb'd off so; the +Pudding was good, it sate very well on his Stomach, +and he eat very savourly, without the least Remorse of +Conscience. + +In short, Sir _John_ grew in Favour in spite of their +Teeth: The King lov'd a merry Joke; and Sir _John_ had +always his Budget full of Punns, Connundrums and +Carrawitchets; not to forgot the Quibbles and +Fly-flaps he play'd against his Adversaries, at which +the King has laugh'd 'till his Sides crackt. + +Sir _John_, tho' he was no very great Scholar, yet had +a happy way of Expressing himself: He was a Man of the +most Engaging Address, and never fail'd to draw +Attention: Plenty and Good-Nature smil'd in his Face; +his Muscles were never distorted with Anger or +Contemplation, but an eternal Smile drew up the +Corners of his Mouth; his very Eyes laugh'd; and as +for his Chin it was three-double, a-down which hung a +goodly Whey-colour'd Beard shining with the Drippings +of his Luxury; for you must know he was a great +Epicure, and had a very Sensible Mouth; he thought +nothing too-good for himself, all his Care was for his +Belly; and his Palate was so exquisite, that it was +the perfect Standard of Tasting. So that to him we owe +all that is elegant in Eating: For Pudding was not his +only Talent, he was a great Virtuoso in all manner of +Eatables; and tho' he might come short of _Lambert_ +for Confectionary-Niceties, yet was he not inferiour +to _Brawnd_, _Lebec_, _Pede_, or any other great +Masters of Cookery; he could toss up a Fricassee as +well as a Pancake: And most of the Kickshaws now in +vogue, are but his Inventions, with other Names; for +what we call _Fricassees_, he call'd _Pancakes_; as, +a Pancake of Chickens, a Pancake of Rabbets, _&c._ +Nay, the _French_ call a Pudding an _English_ +Fricassee, to this Day. + +We value our selves mightily for Roasting a Hare with +a Pudding in its Belly; when alas he has roasted an Ox +with a Pudding in his Belly. There was no Man like him +for Invention and Contrivance: And then for Execution, +he spar'd no Labour and Pains to compass his +magnanimous Designs. + +O wou'd to Heav'n this little Attempt of Mine may stir +up some _Pudding-headed Antiquary_ to dig his Way +through all the mouldy Records of Antiquity, and bring +to Light the Noble Actions of Sir _John_! It will not +then be long before we see him on the Stage. Sir _John +Falstaffe_ then will be a Shrimp to Sir _John +Pudding_, when rais'd from Oblivion and reanimated by +the All-Invigorating Pen of the Well-Fed, Well-Read, +Well-Pay'd _C-- J----_ Esq; Nor wou'd this be all; for +the Pastry-Cooks wou'd from the Hands of an eminent +Physician and Poet receive whole Loads of Memorandums, +to remind 'em of the Gratitude due to Sir _John_'s +Memory. + +On such a Subject I hope to see Sir _Richard_ Out-do +himself. Nor _Arthur_ nor _Eliza_ shall with Sir +_John_ compare. There is not so much difference +between a Telescope and a Powder-Puff, +a Hoop-Petty-Coat and a Farthing-Candle, a Birch-Broom +and a Diamond-Ring, as there will be between the +former Writings of this pair of Poets and their +Lucubrations on this Head. + +Nor will it stop here: The _Opera_ Composers shall +have t'other Contest, which shall best sing-forth his +Praises. Sorry am I that _Nicolino_ is not here, he +would have made an excellent Sir _John_. But +_Senefino_, being blown up after the manner that +Butchers blow Calves, may do well enough. From thence +the Painters and Print-sellers shall retail his goodly +Phiz; and what _Sacheverel_ was, shall Sir _John +Pudding_ be; his Head shall hang Elate on every Sign, +his Fame shall ring in every Street, and _Cluer_'s +Press shall teem with Ballads to his Praise. This +would be but Honour, this would be but Gratitude, from +a Generation so much indebted to so Great a Man. + +But how much do we deviate from Honour and Gratitude, +when we put other Names to his Inventions, and call +'em our own? What is a Tart, a Pie, or a Pasty, but +Meat or Fruit enclos'd in a Wall or Covering of +Pudding. What is a Cake, but a Bak'd Pudding; or a +_Christmas_-Pie, but a Minc'd-Meat-Pudding. As for +Cheese-cakes, Custards, Tansies, they are manifest +Puddings, and all of Sir _John_'s own Contrivance; for +Custard is as old if not older than _Magna Charta_. +In short, Pudding is of the greatest Dignity and +Antiquity. Bread it self, which is the very Staff of +Life, is, properly speaking, a Bak'd Wheat-Pudding. + +To the Satchel, which is the Pudding-Bag of Ingenuity, +we are indebted for the greatest Men in Church and +State. All Arts and Sciences owe their Original to +Pudding or Dumpling. What is a Bag-Pipe, the Mother of +all Music, but a Pudding of Harmony. And what is Music +it self, but a Palatable Cookery of Sounds. To little +Puddings or Bladders of Colours we owe all the choice +Originals of the Greatest Painters: And indeed, what +is Painting, but a well-spread Pudding, or Cookery of +Colours. + +The Head of Man is like a Pudding: And whence have all +Rhimes, Poems, Plots and Inventions sprang, but from +that same Pudding. What is Poetry, but a Pudding of +Words. The Physicians, tho' they cry out so much +against Cooks and Cookery, yet are but Cooks +themselves; with this difference only, the Cooks +Pudding lengthens Life, the Physicians shortens it. +So that we Live and Die by Pudding. For what is a +Clyster, but a Bag-Pudding; a Pill, but a Dumpling; +or a Bolus, but a Tansy, tho' not altogether so +Toothsome. In a word; Physick is only a Puddingizing +or Cookery of Drugs. The Law is but a Cookery of +Quibbles and Contentions. [a] * * * * * * * * * * * + * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * + * * * * * * is but a Pudding of * * * * * * * * * + * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * + * * *. Some swallow every thing whole and unmix'd; +so that it may rather be call'd a Heap, than a +Pudding. Others are so Squeamish, the greatest +Mastership in Cookery is requir'd to make the Pudding +Palatable: The Suet which others gape and swallow by +Gobs, must for these puny Stomachs be minced to Atoms; +the Plums must be pick'd with the utmost Care, and +every Ingredient proportion'd to the greatest Nicety, +or it will never go down. + + [Footnote a: _The Cat run away with this part + of the Copy, on which the Author had unfortunately + laid some of Mother _Crump_'s Sausages._] + +The Universe it self is but a Pudding of Elements. +Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republicks are but +Puddings of People differently made up. The Celestial +and Terrestrial Orbs are decypher'd to us by a pair of +Globes or Mathematical Puddings. + +The Success of War and Fate of Monarchies are entirely +dependant on Puddings and Dumplings: For what else are +Cannon-Balls, but Military Puddings; or Bullets, but +Dumplings; only with this difference, they do not sit +so well on the Stomach as a good Marrow-Pudding or +Bread-Pudding. + +In short, There is nothing valuable in Nature, but +what, more or less, has an Allusion to Pudding or +Dumpling. Why then should they be held in Disesteem? +Why should Dumpling-Eating be ridicul'd, or +Dumpling-Eaters derided? Is it not Pleasant and +Profitable? Is it not Ancient and Honourable? Kings, +Princes, and Potentates have in all Ages been Lovers +of Pudding. Is it not therefore of Royal Authority? +Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Priests and Deacons have, +Time out of Mind, been great Pudding-Eaters: Is it not +therefore a Holy and Religious Institution? +Philosophers, Poets, and Learned Men in all Faculties, +Judges, Privy-Councellors, and Members of both Houses, +have, by their great Regard to Pudding, given a +Sanction to it that nothing can efface. Is it not +therefore Ancient, Honourable, and Commendable? + + _Quare itaque fremuerunt Auctores?_ + +Why do therefore the Enemies of good Eating, the +Starve-gutted Authors of Grub-street, employ their +impotent Pens against Pudding and Pudding-headed, +_alias_ Honest Men? Why do they inveigh against +Dumpling-Eating which is the Life and Soul of +Good-fellowship, and Dumpling-Eaters who are the +Ornaments of Civil Society. + +But, alas! their Malice is their own Punishment. The +Hireling Author of a late scandalous Libel, intituled, +_The Dumpling-Eaters Downfall_, may, if he has any +Eyes, now see his Error, in attacking so Numerous, +so August a Body of People: His Books remain Unsold, +Unread, Unregarded; while this Treatise of Mine shall +be Bought by all who love Pudding or Dumpling; to my +Bookseller's great Joy, and my no small Consolation. +How shall I Triumph, and how will that Mercenary +Scribbler be Mortify'd, when I have sold more Editions +of my Books, than he has Copies of his! I therefore +exhort all People, Gentle and Simple, Men, Women and +Children, to Buy, to Read, to Extol these Labours of +Mine, for the Honour of Dumpling-Eating. Let them not +fear to defend every Article; for I will bear them +Harmless: I have Arguments good store, and can easily +Confute, either Logically, Theologically, or +Metaphysically, all those who dare Oppose me. + +Let not _Englishmen_ therefore be asham'd of the Name +of _Pudding-Eaters_; but, on the contrary, let it be +their Glory. For let Foreigners cry out ne'er so much +against Good Eating, they come easily into it when +they have been a little while in our _Land of Canaan_; +and there are very few Foreigners among as who have +not learn'd to make as great a Hole in a good Pudding +or Sirloin of Beef as the best _Englishman_ of us all. + +Why shou'd we then be Laught out of Pudding and +Dumpling? or why Ridicul'd out of Good Living? Plots +and Politics may hurt us, but Pudding cannot. Let us +therefore adhere to Pudding, and keep our selves out +of Harm's Way; according to the Golden Rule laid down +by a celebrated Dumpling-Eater now defunct; + + _Be of your Patron's Mind, whate'er he says: + Sleep very much; Think little, and Talk less: + Mind neither Good nor Bad, nor Right nor Wrong; + But Eat your Pudding, Fool, and Hold your Tongue._ + PRIOR. + +The Author of these excellent Lines not only shews his +Wisdom, but his Good-Breeding, and great Esteem for +the Memory of Sir _John_, by giving his _Poem_ the +Title of _Merry Andrew_, and making _Merry Andrew_ the +principal Spokesman: For if I guess aright, and surely +I guess not wrong, his main Design was, to ascertain +the Name of _Merry Andrew_ to the _Fool_ of a Droll, +and to substitute it instead of _Jack Pudding_; which +Name my Friend _Matt._ cou'd not hear with Temper, as +carrying with it an oblique Reflection on Sir _John +Pudding_ the Hero of this DUMPLEID. + +Let all those therefore who have any Regard to +Politeness and Propriety of Speech, take heed how they +Err against this Rule laid down by him who was the +Standard of _English_ Elegance. And be it known to all +whom it may concern, That if any Person whatever shall +dare hereafter to apply the Name of _Jack Pudding_ to +_Merry Andrews_ and such-like Creatures, I hereby +Require and Impower any Stander or Standers by, to +Knock him, her, or them down. And if any Action or +Actions of Assault and Battery shall be brought +against any Person or Persons so acting in pursuance +of this most reasonable Request, by Knocking down, +Bruising, Beating, or otherwise Demolishing such +Offenders; I will Indemnify and bear them Harmless. + + _FINIS._ + + +[Decoration] + + * * * * * + * * * * + +[Decoration] + + _Namby Pamby_: + + or, + + A PANEGYRIC on the + New VERSIFICATION + Address'd to + _A---- P----_ Esq; + + + _Nauty Pauty _Jack-a-Dandy_ + Stole a Piece of Sugar-Candy + From the Grocer's Shoppy-shop, + And away did Hoppy-hop._ + + + All ye Poets of the Age, + All ye Witlings of the Stage, + Learn your Jingles to reform; + Crop your Numbers, and conform: + Let your little Verses flow + Gently, sweetly, Row by Row: + Let the Verse the Subject fit; + Little Subject, Little Wit: + _Namby Pamby_ is your Guide; + _Albion_'s Joy, _Hibernia_'s Pride. + _Namby Pamby Pilli-pis_, + Rhimy pim'd on Missy-Miss; + _Tartaretta Tartaree_ + From the Navel to the Knee; + That her Father's Gracy-Grace + Might give him a Placy-Place. + He no longer writes of Mammy + _Andromache_ and her Lammy + Hanging panging at the Breast + Of a Matron most distrest. + Now the Venal Poet sings + Baby Clouts, and Baby Things, + Baby Dolls, and Baby Houses, + Little Misses, Little Spouses; + Little Play-Things, Little Toys, + Little Girls, and Little Boys: + As an Actor does his Part, + So the Nurses get by Heart + _Namby Pamby_'s Little Rhimes, + Little Jingle, Little Chimes, + To repeat to Little Miss, + Piddling Ponds of Pissy-Piss; + Cacking packing like a Lady, + Or Bye-bying in the Crady. + _Namby Pamby_ ne'er will die + While the Nurse sings _Lullabye_. + _Namby Pamby_'s doubly Mild, + Once a Man, and twice a Child; + To his Hanging-Sleeves restor'd; + Now he foots it like a Lord; + Now he Pumps his little Wits; } + Sh--ing Writes, and Writing Sh--s, } + All by little tiny Bits. } + Now methinks I hear him say, } + _Boys and Girls, Come out to Play, } + Moon do's shine as bright as Day._ } + Now my _Namby Pamby_'s found + Sitting on the _Friar's Ground_, + _Picking Silver, picking Gold_, + _Namby Pamby_'s never Old. + _Bally-Cally_ they begin, + _Namby Pamby_ still keeps-in. + _Namby Pamby_ is no Clown, + _London-Bridge is broken down_: + Now he _courts the gay Ladee, + Dancing o'er the Lady-Lee_: + Now he sings of _Lick-spit Liar + Burning in the Brimstone Fire; + Lyar, Lyar, Lick-spit, lick, + Turn about the Candle-stick_: + Now he sings of _Jacky Horner_ + _Sitting in the Chimney corner, + Eating of a Christmas-Pie, + Putting in his Thumb, _Oh, fie!_ + Putting in, _Oh, fie!_ his Thumb, + Pulling out, _Oh, strange!_ a Plum._ + And again, how _Nancy Cock_, + Nasty Girl! _besh-t her Smock_. + Now he acts the _Grenadier_, + Calling for _a Pot of Beer_: + _Where's his Money? He's forgot; + Get him gone, a Drunken Sot._ + Now on _Cock-horse_ does he ride; + And anon on Timber stride. + _See-and-Saw and Sacch'ry down, + London is a gallant Town._ + Now he gathers Riches in + Thicker, faster, Pin by Pin; + _Pins a-piece to see his Show_; + Boys and Girls flock Row by Row; + From their Cloaths the Pins they take, + Risque a Whipping for his sake; + From their Frocks the Pins they pull, + To fill _Namby_'s Cushion full. + So much Wit at such an Age, + Does a Genius great presage. + Second Childhood gone and past, + Shou'd he prove a Man at last, + What must Second Manhood be, + In a Child so Bright as he! + + Guard him, ye Poetic Powers; + Watch his Minutes, watch his Hours: + Let your Tuneful _Nine_ Inspire him; + Let Poetic Fury fire him: + Let the Poets one and all + To his Genius Victims fall. + +[Decoration] + + * * * * * + * * * * + + PROPOSALS + + For Printing by Subscriptions, + + The + Antiquities of _Grub-street_: + + With OBSERVATIONS Critical, Political, + Historical, Chronological, + Philosophical, and Philological. + + By { JOHN WALTON and } + { JAMES ANDREWS } Gent. + +[Decoration] + + This WORK will be Printed on a Superfine Royal + Paper, in Ten Volumes, _Folio_: Each Volume to + contain an Hundred Sheets; besides Maps, Cuts, and + other proper Illustrations. + + The Price to _Subscribers_ is Fifty Guinea's each + Set: Half Down, and Half on Delivery. + + No more to be Printed than what are Subscribed for. + + _Subscribers_ for Six Sets, have a Seventh _gratis_, + as usual. + + The _Subscribers_ Names and Coats of Arms will be + prefix'd to the Work. + + For those who are particularly Curious, some Copies + will be Printed on Vellum, Rul'd and Illuminated, + they paying the Difference. + + It is not doubted but this Great UNDERTAKING will + meet with Encouragement from the Learned World, + several Noble Persons having already Subscribed. + + SUBSCRIBERS are _Taken-in_ by the _Authors_, and + most _Noted_ Booksellers in _London_, &c. + + _N. 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[_Price 6 d._] + + + + +[Decoration] + +PREFACE + + +It very much surprizes me that six Editions of a +Mythological Pamphlet, entituled, _A Dissertation on +Dumpling_, should escape your Notice of that wonderful +Unriddler of Mysteries the ingenious Mr. _E---- C---_ +who has at the same Time given such Proofs of his +Abilities in his many and most elaborate Keys to +_Gulliver_'s Travels; Keys, which _Gulliver_ himself +could never have found out! and withal, so pertinent, +that I shall esteem those at the Helm, no great Lovers +of Learning, if my Friend _Edmund_ be not forthwith +promoted: for as the Sweetness of a Kernel is +uncomatable, but by the Fracture of its Shell, so is +the Beauty of a Mystery altogether hid, till the +Expounder has riddlemayreed the Propounder's Problem, +and render'd it obvious to the meanest Capacity. + +The only Plea I can use in Mr. _C----'s_ behalf, is, +that the Author of the Dissertation has been a little +too free with his Character, which probably occasioned +that Sullenness in our _British Oedipus_; who in Order +to be revenged, has determined not to embelish the +Work with his Interpretation, but rather let it rot +and perish in Oblivion. + +This, and nothing else, could be the Reason of so +profound a Silence in so great a Mysterymonger, +to remedy which Loss to the Publick, I an unworthy +Scribler, and faint Copier of that great Artist, +presume with aching Heart, and trembling Hand, to draw +the Veil which shades the political Pamphlet in +Question; and show it to my loving Countrymen in +_Puris Naturalibus_. + +If I succeed in this, I hope Mr. _L----t_, who all the +World knows is a rare Chap to his Authors, will +speedily employ me to unriddle, or at least make a +Plot to the _Rival Modes_, which it seems the Author +has omitted: it is true, he ought to have given it the +Bookseller with the Copy, but has not so done, which +makes me wonder he is not sued for Breach of Covenant; +but what is that to me, if I get a Job by the Bargain? +Let Booksellers beware how they buy Plays without +Plots for the future. + +I narrowly miss'd solving the Problem called _Wagner_ +and _Abericock_; Mr. _B----_ had spoke to Mr. _W----_ +to speak to Mr. _C----_, who had just consented to +employ me, after having made me abate half my demand: +But Houses running thin, _Colley_ had undertaken the +Job himself to save Charges; intending at the same +Time, to annex a severe Criticism on _Pluto_ and +_Proserpine_. + +This, gentle Reader, will, I hope, induce you to look +on me as a Writer of some Regard, and at the same +Time, to make a little Allowance for whatever Errors +my great Hurry may occasion, being obliged to write +Night and Day, Sundays and working Days, without the +least Assistance. All our Journeymen Writers being now +turned Masters, I am left to shift for my self; but am +bringing up my Wife to the Business, and doubt not but +a long War, and our mutual Industry, may rub off old +Scores, and make us begin a new Reckoning with all +Mankind; Pamphleteering having been so dead for many +Years last past, that (God forgive me!) I have been +oftentimes tempted to write Treason for mere +Sustenance. + +But Thanks to better Stars and better Days, the Pen +revives, and Authors flourish; more Money can be made +now of a Play, nay, though it be a scurvy One, than +_Dryden_ got by all his Works. Therefore now or never +is the Time to strike while the Iron is hot, to write +my self out of Debt, and into Place, and then grow +idle and laugh at the World, as my Betters have done +before me. + + * * * * * + * * * * + +[Decoration] + +INTRODUCTION. + + +When a Book has met with Success, it never wants a +Father; there being those good natured Souls in the +World, who, rather than let Mankind think such +Productions sprang of themselves, will own the +Vagabond Brat, and thereby become Fathers of other +Mens Offsprings. + +This was the Fate of Dumpling, whose real Father did +not take more Care to conceal himself, than some did +to be thought its Author; but if any one will +recollect the Time of its Publication, they will find +it within a Week after the Arrival of D----n _S----t_, +from _Ireland_; the Occasion, as I am very well +informed, was this, the D----n, one of the first +Things he did, went to pay a Visit to Mr. _T----_, his +old Bookseller; but, to his Surprize, found both the +Brothers dead, and a Relation in the Shop, to whom he +was an utter Stranger. Mr. _M----_ for such is this +Person's Name, gathering from the D--n's Enquiries who +he was, paid him his _Devoirs_ in the most respectful +Manner, solicited his Friendship, and invited him to a +Dinner, which the D----n was pleased to accept. By the +Way, you must know, he is a great Lover of Dumpling, +as well as the Bookseller, who had ordered one for +himself, little dreaming of such a Guest that Day. The +Dinner, as 'twas not provided on purpose, was but a +Family one, well enough however for a Bookseller; that +is to say, a couple of Fowls, Bacon and Sprouts +boiled, and a Forequarter of Lamb roasted. After the +usual Complements for the unexpected Honour, and the +old Apology of wishing it was better for his sake: +The Maid, silly Girl! came and asked her Master if he +pleased to have his Dumpling; he would have chid her, +but the D----n mollified him, insisting at the same +Time, upon the Introduction of Dumpling, which +accordingly was done. Dumpling gave Cause of +Conversation, but not till it was eat; for the Reader +must understand, that both the Gentlemen play a good +Knife and Fork, and are too mannerly to talk with +their Mouths full. The Dumpling eat, as I said before, +the D----n drank to the Bookseller, the Bookseller to +the Author, and with an obsequious Smile, seem'd to +say ah! Dear Doctor, you have been a Friend to my +Predecessor, can you do nothing for me? The D--n took +the Hint, and after a profound Contemplation, cry'd, +Why ay--Dumpling will do--put me in Mind of Dumpling +anon, but not a Word more at present, and good Reason +why, Dinner was coming in. So they past the rest of +the Meal with great Silence and Application, and no +doubt dined well. Far otherwise was it with me that +Day: I remember to my Sorrow, I had a Hogs Maw, +without Salt or Mustard; having at that Time, Credit +with the Pork-Woman, but not with the Chandler: Times +are since mended, _Amen_ to the Continuance! + +The D----n, having eat and drank plentifully, began +his usual Pleasantries, and made the Bookseller +measure his Ears with his Mouth; nay, burst his Sides +with Laughter; however, he found Interval enough to +remind the D----n of Dumpling, who asked him if he had +a quick Hand at Writing: he excused himself, being +naturally as Lazy as the other was Indolent, so they +contrived to ease themselves by sending for a Hackney +Writer out of _Temple Lane_ to be the D--'s +_Amanuensis_, while he and his new Acquaintance +crack'd t'other Bottle. + +This Account may be depended upon, because I had it +from the Man himself, who scorns to tell a Lye. + +To be short, my Friend had the worst of it, being kept +to hard Writing, without Drinking (Churls that they +were) about three Hours; in which Time the +Dissertation was finished, that is to say, from Page +1. to Page 25. the rest might probably be done at some +other leisure Time, to fill up the Chinks, but of that +he knows nothing; sufficient is it that the D----n was +the Author. Proceed we now to the other Discoveries, +by drawing the Veil from before the Book it self. + + * * * * * + * * * * + + [Decoration] + + A + K E Y + + to the + DISSERTATION + + on + _DUMPLING_. + + +I Shall begin with his Motto, which says, _What is +better than a Pudding?_ The Body owns its Power, the +Mind, its Delicacy; it will give Youth to grey Hairs, +and Life to the most Desponding: Therefore are Pudding +Eaters of great Use in State Affairs. + +This Quotation is of a Piece with his Motto to the +Tale of a Tub, and other Writings; altogether +Fictitious and Drole: he adds to the Jest, by putting +an Air of Authority or genuine Quotation from some +great Author; when alas! the whole is mere Farce and +Invention. + +The Dedication is one continued Sneer upon Authors, +and their Patrons, and seems to carry a Glance of +Derision towards Men of Quality in General; by setting +a Cook above them, as a more useful Member in a body +Politick. Some will have this _Braund_, to be Sir +****, others Sir ****, others Sir ****; but I take it +to be more Railery than Mystery, and that Mr. +_Braund_, at the _Rummer_ in _Queen-street_, is the +Person; who having pleas'd the Author in two or three +Entertainments, he, with a View truly _Epicurean_, +constitutes him his _Maecenas_; as being more agreeable +to him than a whole Circle of Stars and Garters, of +what Colour or Denomination soever. + +In his Tale of a Tub, he has a fling at Dependance, +and Attendance, where he talks of a Body worn out with +Poxes ill cured, and Shooes with Dependance, and +Attendance. Not having the Book by me, I am forced to +quote at Random, but I hope the courteous Reader will +bear me out. He complains of it again in this +Treatise, and makes a Complement to Mr. _Austin_, Mr. +_Braund_'s late Servant; who keeps the _Braund_'s Head +in _New Bond-street_, near _Hanover-Square_; a House +of great Elegance, and where he used frequently to +dine. + +The Distinction of _Brand_, _Braund_, and _Barnes_, is +a Banter on Criticks, and Genealogists, who make such +a Pother about the Orthography of Names and Things, +that many Times, three Parts in four of a Folio +Treatise, is taken up in ascertaining the Propriety of +a Syllable, by which Means the Reader is left +undetermined; having nothing but the various Readings +on a single Word, and that probably, of small +Importance. + +I heartily wish some of these Glossographists would +oblige the World with a Folio Treatise or two, on the +Word Rabbet: We shall then know whether it is to be +spelt with an _e_, or an _i_. For, to the Shame of the +_English_ Tongue and this learned Age, our most +eminent Physicians, Surgeons, Anatomists and Men +Midwives, have all been to seek in this Affair. + + St. _Andre_, } + _Howard_, } Spell it + _Braithwaite_, } with + _Ahlers_ and } an _e_. + _Manningham_, } + + _Douglas_ } + and the } Spell it + Gentleman who } with + calls himself } an _i_. + _Gulliver_, } + +And some of these great Wits, have such short +Memories, that they spell it both Ways in one and the +same Page. + +The Master-Key to this Mystery, is the Explanation of +its Terms; for Example, by _Dumpling_ is meant a +Place, or any other Reward or Encouragement. +A _Pudding_ signifies a P----t, and sometimes a +C----tee. A _Dumpling Eater_, is a Dependant on the +Court, or, in a Word, any one who will rather pocket +an Affront than be angry at a Tip in Time. A _Cook_ is +a Minister of State. The _Epicurean_ and _Peripatetic_ +Sects, are the two Parties of _Whigg_ and _Tory_, who +both are greedy enough of Dumpling. + +The Author cannot forbear his old Sneer upon +Foreigners, but says, in his 1st Page, "That finding +it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go +home again," and in his 2d, "Nay, so zealous are they +in the Cause of _Bacchus_, that one of the Chief among +them, made a Vow never to say his Prayers till he has +a Tavern of his own in every Street in _London_, and +in every Market-Town in _England_:" If he does not +mean Sir J---- T---- I know not who he means. + +By the Invention of _Eggs_, Page 4. is meant +Perquisites. "He cannot conclude a Paragraph in his +5th _Page_, without owning he received that important +Part of the History of Pudding, from old Mr. +_Lawrence_ of _Wilsden Green_, the greatest Antiquary +of the present Age." + +This old _Lawrence_ is a great Favourite of the D--s; +he is a facetious farmer, of above eighty Years of +Age, now living at _Wilsden Green_, near _Kilburn_ in +_Middlesex_, the most rural Place I ever saw: exactly +like the Wilds of _Ireland_. It was here the +D--n often retired _incog._ to amuse himself with the +Simplicity of the Place and People; where he got +together all that Rigmayroll of Childrens talk, which +composes his _Namby Pamby_. Old _Lawrence_ told me, +the D--n has sate several Hours together to see the +Children play, with the greatest Pleasure in Life: The +rest he learned from the old Nurses thereabouts, of +which there are a great many, with whom he would go +and smoke a Pipe frequently, and cordially; not in +his Clergyman's Habit, but in a black Suit of Cloth +Clothes, and without a Rose in his Hat: Which made +them conclude him to be a Presbyterian Parson. + +This Mention of old _Lawrence_, is in Ridicule to a +certain great Artist, who wrote a Treatise upon the +Word _Connoisseur_ (or a Knower) and confesses himself +to have been many Years at a loss for a Word to +express the Action of Knowing, till the great Mr. +_Prior_ gave him Ease, by furnishing him with the Word +_Connoissance_. Our D--n had drawn a Drole, Parallel +to this, _viz._ _Boudineur_, a Pudding Pyeman; and +_Boudinance_, the making of Pudding Pies: But several +Men of Quality begging it off, it was, at their +Request, scratch'd out, but my Friend, the +_Amanuensis_, remembers particularly its being +originally inserted. + +If the Reader should ask, Who is that K-- _John_ +mentioned in the fourth Page, and which I ought to +have taken in its Place. I beg leave to inform him, +that by K. _John_ is meant the late Q. ----, with whom +the D-- of _M----_ was many Years in such great +Favour, that he was nick named K. _John_; it was in +that Part of the Q--'s Reign, that Sir _John_ Pudding, +by whom is meant **** _you know who_, came in Favour; +it is true, the Name is odd, and seems to carry an Air +of Ridicule with it, but the Character given him by +this allegorical Writer, is that of an able Statesman, +and an honest Man. + +And here, begging Mr. D--n's Pardon, I cannot but +think his Wit has out run his Judgment; for he puts +the Cart before the Horse, and begins at the latter +Part of Sir **** Administration: But this might be +owing to too plentiful a Dinner, and too much of the +Creature. Be that as it will, I must follow my Copy, +and explain it as it lies. Proceed we therefore to the +Dissertation, _Page 6._ + +"But what rais'd our Hero most in the Esteem of this +Pudding-eating Monarch, was his second Edition of +Pudding, he being the first that ever invented the Art +of broiling Puddings, which he did to such Perfection, +and so much to the King's liking (who had a mortal +Aversion to cold Pudding) that he thereupon instituted +him Knight of the Gridiron, and gave him a Gridiron of +Gold, the Ensign of that Order; which he always wore +as a Mark of his Sovereign's Favour." + +If this does not mean the late Revival of an ancient +Order of Knighthood, I never will unriddle Mystery +more: To prove which, we need but cross over to the +next Page, where he tells us, "Sir _John_ had always a +Squire, who followed him, bearing a huge Pair of +Spectacles to saddle his Honour's Nose." _Diss. +Page 7._ + +After this, he very severely runs upon those would-be +Statesmen, who put themselves in Competition with his +Favourite, Sir ****, with whom he became exceeding +intimate, and almost inseperable, all the Time he was +in _England_. + +The Story of the Kit Cat Club, _Dick Estcourt_, and +_Jacob Tonson_, is a mere Digression; and nothing more +to the Purpose, than that we may imagine it came +uppermost. He returns to his Subject in his 9th +_Page_. + +"Now it was Sir _John_'s Method, every _Sunday_ +Morning, to give the Courtiers a Breakfast; which +Breakfast was every Man his Dumpling, and Cup of Wine: +For you must know, he was Yeoman of the Wine-Cellar at +the same Time." + +The Breakfast is Sir *** Levee, the Yeomanship of the +Wine-Cellar, is the ***. + +The Author of the Dissertation, is a very bad +Chronologist; for at _Page_ 10. we are obliged to go +back to the former Reign, where we shall find the +lubberly Abbots (_i.e._) the High Church Priests, +misrepresenting Sir _John_'s Actions, and never let +the Q---- alone, till poor Sir _John_ was discarded. + +"This was a great Eye-sore, and Heart-burning to some +lubberly Abbots, who lounged about the Court; they +took it in great Dudgeon they were not invited, and +stuck so close to his Skirts, that they never rested +till they outed him. They told the King, who was +naturally very hasty, that Sir _John_, made-away with +his Wine, and feasted his _Paramours_ at his Expence; +and not only so, but they were forming a Design +against his Life, which they in Conscience ought to +discover: That Sir _John_ was not only an Heretic, but +an Heathen; nay, worse, they fear'd he was a Witch, +and that he had bewitch'd his Majesty into that +unaccountable Fondness for a _Pudding-Maker_. They +assured the King, that on a _Sunday_ Morning, instead +of being at Mattins, he and his Trigrimates got +together hum jum, all snug, and perform'd many hellish +and diabolical Ceremonies. In short, they made the +King believe that the Moon was made of Green-Cheese: +And to shew how the Innocent may be bely'd, and the +best Intentions misrepresented, they told the King, +That he and his Associates offered Sacrifices to +_Ceres_: When, alas, it was only the Dumplings they +eat. + +"The Butter which was melted and poured over them, +these vile Miscreants, called _Libations_: And the +friendly Compotations of our Dumpling Eaters, were +called _Bacchanalian Rites_. Two or three among them +being sweet tooth'd, would strew a little Sugar over +their Dumplings; this was represented as an +_Heathenish Offering_. In short, not one Action of +theirs, but which these rascally Abbots made criminal, +and never let the King alone till Sir _John_ was +discarded; not but the King did it with the greatest +Reluctance; but they made it a religious Concern, and +he could not get off on't." _Diss. pag._ 10. + +All the World knows that the _Tory_ Ministry got +uppermost, for the four last Years of the Queen's +Reign, and by their unaccountable Management, teaz'd +that good Lady out of her Life: Which occasion'd the +D--n in his eleventh Page to say; "Then too late he +saw his Error; then he lamented the Loss of Sir +_John_; and in his latest Moments, would cry out, Oh! +that I had never parted from my dear _Jack-Pudding_! +Would I had never left off Pudding and Dumpling! then +I had never been thus basely poison'd! never thus +treacherously sent out of the World!----Thus did this +good King lament: But alas! to no purpose, the Priest +had given him his Bane, and Complaints were +ineffectual." + +This alludes to Sir **** Imprisonment and Disgrace in +the Year ---- Nay, so barefaced is the D--n in his +Allegory, that he tells us, in his 12th Page, +_Norfolk_ was his Asylum. This is as plain as the Nose +on a Man's Face! The subsequent Pages are an exact +Description of the Ingratitude of Courtiers; and his +Fable of the _Court Pudding_, Page 13. is the best +Part of the whole Dissertation. + +One would imagine the D--n had been at Sea, by his +writing Catharping-Fashion, and dodging the Story +sometimes Twenty-Years backwards, at other Times +advancing as many; so that one knows not where to have +him: for in his fifteenth Page, he returns to the +present Scene of Action, and brings his Hero into the +Favour of K---- _Harry_, _alias_ **** who being +sensible of his Abilities, restores him into Favour, +and makes Use of his admirable Skill in Cookery, +_alias_ State Affairs. + +"Not one of the King's Cooks could make a Pudding like +Sir _John_; nay, though he made a Pudding before their +Eyes, yet they, out of the very same Materials, could +not do the like: Which made his old Friends, the +Monks, attribute it to Witchcraft and it was currently +reported the Devil was his Helper. But good King +_Harry_ was not to be fobb'd off so; the Pudding was +good, it sat very well on his Stomach, and he eat very +savourly, without the least Remorse of Conscience." +_Diss. Page_ 15. + +This seems to hint at the Opposition Sir **** met with +from the contrary Party, and how sensible the K---- +was, that they were all unable to hold the Staff in +Competition with him. + +After this the D--n runs into a whimsical Description +of his Heroes personal Virtues; but draws the Picture +too much _Alla Carraccatura_, and is, in my Opinion, +not only a little too familiar, but wide of his +Subject. For begging his Deanship's Pardon, he +mightily betrays his Judgment, when he says, Sir +_John_ was no very great Scholar, whereas all Men of +Learning allow him to be a most excellent one; but as +we may suppose he grew pretty warm by this Time with +the Booksellers Wine, he got into his old Knack of +Raillery, and begins to run upon all Mankind: In this +Mood he falls upon _C---- J----n_, and Sir _R---- +Bl----re_, a pair of twin Poets, who suck'd one and +the same Muse. After this he has a Fling at _Handel_, +_Bononcini_ and _Attilio_, the Opera Composers; and a +severe Sneer on the late High-Church Idol, +_Sacheverel_. As for _Cluer_, the Printer, any Body +that knows Music, or _Bow Church Yard_, needs no +farther Information. + +And now he proceeds to a Digression, which is indeed +the Dissertation it self; proving all Arts and +Sciences to owe their Origin and Existence to +_Pudding_ and _Dumpling_ (_i.e._) Encouragement. His +_Hiatus_ in the 20th Page, I could, but dare not +Decypher. + +In his 22nd Page, he lashes the Authors who oppose the +Government; such as the _Craftsman_, _Occasional +Writer_, and other Scribblers, past, present, and to +come. _The Dumpling-Eaters Downfal_, is a Title of his +own Imagination; I have run over all _Wilford_'s +Catalogues, and see no Mention made of such a Book: +All that Paragraph therefore is a mere Piece of +Rablaiscism. + +In his 23d Page, he has another confounded Fling at +Foreigners; and after having determinately dubb'd his +Hero, the Prince of Statesmen, he concludes his +Dissertation with a Mess of Drollery, and goes off in +a Laugh. + +In a Word, the whole Dissertation seems calculated to +ingratiate the D--n in Sir **** Favour; he draws the +Picture of an able and an honest Minister, painful in +his Countries Service, and beloved by his Prince; yet +oftentimes misrepresented and bely'd: Nay, sometimes +on the Brink of Ruin, but always Conqueror. The Fears, +the Jealousies, the Misrepresentations of an enraged +and disappointed Party, give him no small Uneasiness +to see the Ingratitude of some Men, the Folly of +others, who shall believe black to be white, because +prejudiced and designing Knaves alarm 'em with false +Fears. We see every Action misconstrued, and Evil made +out of Good; but as the best Persons and Things are +subject to Scandal and Ridicule; so have they the +Pleasure of Triumphing in the Truth, which always will +prevail. + +I take the Allegory of this Dissertation to be partly +Historical, partly Prophetical; the D--n seeming to +have carried his View, not only to the present, but +even, succeeding Times. He sets his Hero down at last +in Peace, Plenty, and a happy Retirement, not +unrelented by his Prince; his Honesty apparent, his +Enemies baffled and confounded, and his Measures made +the Standard of good Government; and a Pattern for all +just Ministers to follow. + +Thus, gentle Reader, have I, at the Expence of these +poor Brains, crack'd this thick Shell, and given thee +the Kernel. If any should object, and say this +Exposition is a Contradiction to the D--n's +Principles; I assure such Objector, that the D--n is +an errant _Whig_ by Education, and Choice: He may +indeed cajole the _Tories_ with a Belief that he is of +their Party; but it is all a Joke, he is a _Whig_, and +I know him to be so; Nay more, I can prove it, and +defy him to contradict me; did he not just after his +Arrival and Promotion in _Ireland_, writing to one of +his intimate Friends in _London_, conclude his Letter +in this Manner? + +_Thus Dear **** from all that has occur'd, you must +conclude me a _Tory_ in every Thing, but my Principle, +which is yet as unmoved, as, that I am,_ + + Yours, _&c._ + +This Letter, his Tale of a Tub, and in a Word, all his +Invectives against Enthusiasm and Priestcraft, plainly +prove him to be no _Tory_; and if his Intimacy, not +only with Sir **** himself, but most of the prime Men +in the Ministry, cannot prove him a _Whig_, I have no +more to say. + + _FINIS._ + + + + +[Decoration] + +_Advertisement to the _Curious_._ + + +The Author is Night and Day at Work (in order to get +published before the _Spaniards_ have raised the Siege +of _Gibraltar_) a Treatise, entituled, _Truth brought +to light, _or_ D--n _S----t_'s _Wilsden_ Prophecy +unfolded_; being a full Explanation of a Prophetical +Poem, called _Namby Pamby_, which, by most People, +is taken for a Banter on an eminent Poet, now in +_Ireland_; when in Fact, it is a true Narrative of the +Siege of _Gibraltar_, the Defeat of the _Spaniards_, +and Success of the _British_ Arms. The Author doubts +not in this Attempt to give manifest Proof of his +Abilities, and make it apparent to all Mankind, that +he can see as clearly through a Milstone, as any other +Person can through the best Optic _Martial_ or +_Scarlet_ ever made; and that there is more in many +Things, not taken Notice of, than the Generality of +People are aware of. + + + * * * * * + * * * * + * * * * * + + +NOTES TO _DUMPLING_ + + +Pp. [ii].2-[iii].25. The information on Brand, Braund, and Marsh is +confirmed by records in the Willesdon Public Library and by Lyson's +_County of Middlesex_. + +P.2.30-31. Carey also attacks the Freemasons and Gormogons in _Poems_, +ed. Wood, p. 118. + +P.5.3. Old Mr. Lawrence is mentioned several times (see particularly +_Key_, pp. 16-17). There was a farmer Lawrence of 70 in Willesdon at the +time, but I have found no direct connection with an antiquary, with +Swift's Namby Pamby talk (see _OED_ under _Namby Pamby_) and his +_Wilsden Prophecy_; nor with Jonathan Richardson (see note to _Key_, +p. 17). On another level, the laziness attributed to Swift (_Key_, +p. viii) and the gridiron here connected with the Kit Cat club are both +commonly associated with Saint Lawrence. + +P.6.11-12. "Bull and Mouth" refers to a tavern known as the Boulogne +Mouth (John Timbs, _Clubs and Club Life in London_ [London, 1872], +p. 529). + +Pp.6.13-9.6. Knight of the Gridiron: Walpole was a member of the Kit +Cat club, which originally met at the pie shop of Christopher Cat in +Shire Lane. The "Second Edition" probably refers to the fact that the +Order of the Bath was reintroduced for Walpole's benefit in June 1724. +(See also _Key_, p. 19.) There is intentional confusion with Estcourt, +who as providore of the Beefsteak club wore about his neck a small +gridiron of silver and was made a Knight of Saint Lawrence. The Knights +of the Toast were an associated group. The gridiron is a symbol both of +gormandizing and of the roasting of Saint Lawrence. + +P.9.9. J[acob] T[onson], the publisher, founded the Kit Cat club which +also met at Tonson's home in Barns Elms, and in Hampstead (which was +only a few miles northeast of Willesdon). + +P.11.15-18. King John is reputed either to have been poisoned or to +have died from overeating at Swineshead Abbey (18-19 October 1216). + +Pp.14.15-16.24. See also _Key_, pp. 25-26. King Harry, at this point, +would appear to be George I, with either Walpole or Marlborough as Sir +John Pudding. Nevertheless, there are carefully interpolated overtones +regarding Falstaff and Hal. "One knows not where to have him" (_Key_, +p. 25) is one of several apt Shakespearian allusions in the work. + +Pp.17.25-18.26. In _Dumpling_, pp. 17-18, and _Key_, pp. 26-27, the +references are to the writers Sir R[ichard] B[lackmore] and C[harles] +J[ohnso]n; opera in the hands of Nicolino, Senesino, Handel, Buononcini +and Attilio; the high-church idol, Sacheverel (d. 1724); the _Craftsman_ +(founded to attack Walpole) and the _Occasional Writer_ (Bolingbroke's 4 +pamphlets of Jan/Feb. 1727); and finally the discredited music printer, +Cluer. Carey's relationship to opera was ambivalent, but in _Mocking is +Catching_ he strongly attacked Senesino. + +P.24.5-29. Matt. Prior (d. 1721), despite his aristocratic pretensions, +had been earlier associated with the Rummer Tavern. He was a member of +the Kit Cat club until he became a Tory for Dumpling. + +P.[32].28. E[dmund] C[url] of the "ADVERTISEMENT" was a publisher +notorious for stealing material. Carey complained frequently of his +writings having been "fathered" by others. + + +NOTES TO THE _KEY_ + +Title Page. "J. W.": Dr. Wood suggests this is the fictitious John +Walton of the "Proposals" at the end of _Dumpling_. My own preference is +for Dr. John Woodward, the famous antiquarian and physician. As late as +Fielding's "Dedication" to _Shamela_, Woodward was being mocked for +suggesting that the "Gluttony [which] is owing to the great +Multiplication of Pastry-Cooks in the City" has "Led to the Subversion +of Government...." (See Woodward's _The State of Physick and of +Diseases_ [London, 1718], pp. 194-196 and 200-201. Compare this with +_Dumpling_, pp. 22-23, on the _Dumpling-Eaters Downfall_, also pp. 9 and +16, and _Key_, p. 17.) Swift deals with "repletion" in _Gulliver's +Travels_ (ed. Herbert Davis [Oxford, 1941], pp. 253-254 and 262). + +P.iii.1-22. L[intot] was Pope's publisher. B[ooth], W[ilks], and +C[ibber] were the managers of Drury Lane. _The London Stage, Part 2: +1700-1729_, ed. Emmett L. Avery (Carbondale, Ill., 1960), shows that +J. M. Smythe's _Rival Modes_ was first played 27 January 1727 at Drury +Lane; John Thurmond's pantomime _The Miser: Or Wagner and Abericock_ was +first played 30 December 1726 at Drury Lane; and Lun's pantomimes +_Harlequin a Sorcerer: With The Loves of Pluto and Proserpine_ and _The +Rape of Proserpine_ were first played at the Lincoln's Inn Fields +Theatre 21 January 1725 and 13 February 1727 respectively. + +P.iv.16-25. The preface ends on a similar note to Carey's _Of Stage +Tyrants_ (p. 108). + +P.[v].3-4. To "it never wants a Father," compare _Of Stage Tyrants_ +(p. 107). + +P.vi.1-9. Swift's "old Bookseller" had been T[ooke] (though there may +be overtones here regarding Tonson). His new publisher was [Benjamin] +M[otte]. + +Pp.viii.24-ix.14. The "Hackney Writer out of _Temple Lane_" could very +well be Carey. (See Carey's _Records of Love_ [London, 1710], pp. 175, +93, and 104.) + +P.13.6-9. Carey's poem "The Plague of Dependence" cautions: "You may +dance out your shoes in attendance;/ [while you] .... wait for a court +dependence" (p. 90). + +Pp.14.7-15.2. Here Carey cleverly ties in Swift's surgeon Gulliver, +through the "Pancake of Rabbets" (_Dumpling_, p. 17), with the topical +and notorious case of Mary Tofts, who in November 1726 was "delivered" +of fifteen rabbits. All the people mentioned were connected with this +case. Nathaniel St. Andre was the surgeon and anatomist to the King, +and Cyriacus Ahlers the King's private surgeon; John Howard was the +apothecary. The imposture was finally brought to light before Sir +Richard Manningham (the famous man-midwife who probably influenced +Sterne) and Dr. James Douglas. Among the many contemporary pamphlets on +this subject is one by Thomas Braithwaite. + +Pp.16.14-17.13. The following is a very revealing quotation from +records in the Willesdon Public Library under F. A. Wood [not Dr. F. T. +Wood], _Willesdon_ I, 99: "These nurse children must have been sent from +workhouses round Willesdon ... the parish must have become a baby +farm.... The large number of deaths between 1702 and 1727 ought to have +caused some official enquiry, which probably did take place, as after +1727 they soon ceased altogether." + +P.17.14-22. See Jonathan Richardson, _Works_, Strawberry Hill Press +(London, 1792), pp. 198-199: "...had the honour of a letter ... the term +_Connoisance_ was used.... I must not conceal the name it was Mr. +Prior." Richardson, a frequent visitor to Hampstead, painted both Prior +and Pope. His essay on "The Connoisseur" was frequently published. + +P.18.6-22. See also p. 24 and _passim_. Robert Walpole was born and +died at Houghton in Norfolk; he was helped up by Marlborough but lost +power with him under the Tories. 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