For this work Pope received the lion's share of profits, his co-laborers being paid only L800.
Among his miscellaneous works must be mentioned portions of _Martinus Scriblerus_.

One of these, _Peri Bathous_, or _Art of Sinking in Poetry_, was the germ of The Dunciad.
Like Dryden, he was attacked by the _soi-disant_ poets of the day, and retorted in similar style and taste.

In imitation of Dryden's _MacFlecknoe_, he wrote _The Dunciad_, or epic of the Dunces, in the first edition of which Theobald was promoted to the vacant throne.

It roused a great storm.

Authors besieged the publisher to hinder him from publishing it, while booksellers and agents were doing all in their power to procure it.