Hitherto overlooked external evidence for Defoe’s authorship of the 735-line poem, A Hymn to the Mob (July 1715), means that work can now be treated as Defoe’s with greater certainty. Attributed to Defoe by a bibliographer for the first time in the nineteenth century, it was retained for the Defoe canon by Furbank and Owens as ‘probable’, on the principle that external and internal evidence together may support a ‘certain’ attribution, but internal evidence alone may produce at best a ‘probable’ attribution.1¹ A letter in Baker’s News: or, The Whitehall Journal, number XIX, for Tuesday 25 September 1722, invites readers to ‘hear what de Foe says to the Mob’ and quotes four lines of A Hymn without naming it:Thus Senates, and Assemblies of the State,Who formally usurp the Judgment-Seat;Thy Flesh and Bone out of thy Loins they grew,Just as our Parliaments do now.2²

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笛福（Defoe）的著作《赞美诗集》（1715）

迄今为止，忽视了迪福创作的735行诗《暴民赞美诗》（1715年7月）的外部证据，这意味着现在可以更加确定地将作品视为迪福的作品。19世纪，书目学家首次将其归因于迪福，根据外部和内部证据共同支持“确定”归属的原则，弗班克和欧文斯将其保留为迪福的“可能”。证据可以单独充其量产生“可能” attribution.1 ¹中的A字母贝克的新闻：或者，白厅杂志，第十九号，星期二1722年9月25日，邀请读者“听到德敌人说的暴民”和报价四行赞美诗没有正式命名：因此，参议院和国家议会正式篡夺了审判席；你的肉和骨头了你的腰，他们的成长，就像我们的议会做now.2 ²