"Resolved, That toward the farther lessening the character of the said Pope, some persons be deputed to abuse him at ladies tea-tables, and that in consideration our authors are not well dressed enough, Mr. C—y and Mr. Ke—l be deputed for that service.
"Resolved, That a ballad be made against Mr. Pope, and that Mr. Oldmixon[1], Mr. Gildon[2], and Mrs. Centlivre[3], do prepare and bring in the same.
"Resolved, That above all, some effectual ways and means be found to increase the joint stock of the reputation of this society, which at present is exceeding low, and to give their works the greater currency; whether by raising the denomination of the said works by counterfeit titlepages, or mixing a greater quantity of the fine metal of other authors with the alloy of this society.
"Resolved, that no member of this society for the future mix stout in his ale in a morning, and that Mr. B—— remove from the Hercules and Still.
"Resolved, that all our members (except the cook's wife) be provided with a sufficient quantity of the vivifying drops, or Byfield's sal volatile.
- ↑ Oldmixon was all his life a party writer for hire: and after having falsified Daniel's Chronicle in many places, he charged three eminent persons with falsifying lord Clarendon's History, which was disproved by Dr. Atterbury bishop of Rochester, the only survivor of them.
- ↑ Gildon, a writer of criticisms and libels, who abused Mr. Pope in several pamphlets and books printed by Curll.
- ↑ Mrs Susannah Centlivre, wife of Mr. Centlivre, yeoman of the mouth to his majesty, wrote a song before she was seven years old, and many plays: she wrote also a ballad against Mr. Pope's Homer, before he began it.
