_, 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. Sw