[98] 'Freemasons, Moore:' he was of this society, and frequently
headed their processions.
[99] 'Bishop Boulter:' friend of Ambrose Philips.
[100] 'Burnets, &c.:' authors of secret and scandalous history.
[101] 'Gildon:' a forgotten critic and dramatist--a bitter
libeller of Pope.
[102] 'A Persian tale:' Ambrose Philips translated a book called
the 'Persian Tales.'
[103] 'Bufo:' most commentators refer this to Lord Halifax.
[104] 'Sir Will:' Sir William Young.
[105] 'Bubo:' Babb Dodington.
[106] 'Who to the dean, and silver bell:' meaning the man who
would have persuaded the Duke of Chandos that Mr P. meant him in those
circumstances ridiculed in the 'Epistle on Taste.'--_P_.
[107] 'Sporus:' Lord Hervey.
[108] 'The lie so oft o'erthrown:' as, that he received
subscriptions for Shakspeare; that he set his name to Mr Broome's
verses, &c., which, though publicly disproved, were nevertheless
shamelessly repeated.--_P_.
[109] 'The imputed trash:' such as profane psalms, court-poems,
and other scandalous things, printed in his name by Curll and
others.--_P_.
[110] 'Abuse:' namely, on the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of
Burlington, Lord Bathurst, Lord Bolingbroke, Bishop Atterbury, Dr Swift,
Dr Arbuthnot, Mr Gay, his friends, his parents, and his very nurse,
aspersed in printed papers, by James Moore, G.
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