her own cloak about the girl, which "frees from sense of Shame". After the vacuous traveller, an idle lord appears, yawning with the pain of sitting on an easy chair. He does nothing at all. Immediately after him, Annius speaks. He is the natural predator for idling nobles, for he is a forger of antiquities (named for Annio di Viterbo) who teaches the nobles to value their false Roman coins above their houses and their forged Virgil manuscripts above their own clothing. He serves Dulness by teaching her servants to vaunt their stupidity with their wealth. Notes Bibliography External links The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2, containing The Dunciad B, from Project Gutenberg. Searching the text for 'THE DUNCIAD:[234]' will locate the start of the poem. British poems Narrative poems Mock-heroic English poems 1728 poems Works by Alexander Pope