THE DUNCIA D. Вook the FIRST. B OOKS and the Man I fing, the first who brings REMARKS On Book the FIRST. 1 THE Dunciad, Sic M. S. It may be well difputed whether this be a right Reading? Ought it not rather to be fpelled Dunceiad, as the Etymology evidently demands? Dunce with an e, therefore Dunceiad with an e. That accurate and punctual Man of Letters, the Reftorer of Shakespeare, conftantly ob ferves the preservation of this very letter e, in fpelling the Name of his beloved Author, and not like his common careless Editors, with the omiffion of one, nay fometimes of two ee's [as Shak' spear] which is utterly unpardonable. Nor is the neglect of a Single Letter fo trivial as to fome it may appear; the alteration whereof in a learned language is an Atchivewent that brings honour to the Critick who advances |