The line in the Dunciad was taken to allude to a story about a M.Remond which has been fully cleared up.
[12] The statements as to the date of the acquaintance are contradictory.

Martha told Spence that she first knew Pope as a "very little girl," but added that it was after the publication of the Essay on Criticism, when she was twenty-one; and at another time, that it was after he had begun the Iliad, which was later than part of the published correspondence..