This contribution presents the text of an eighteenth-century imitation of John Donne's First Satire which has never before been printed or investigated. This anonymous work in 139 lines of couplet verse, the only known copy of which is extant in a British Library manuscript, appears to have been written in response to Alexander Pope's two imitations of Donne's Satires published in the 1730s. The writer's close knowledge of Pope's other works is apparent from many borrowed words, phrases, and names.
Stuart Gillespie (Sun,) studied this question.