Finch describes the kinds and refers specifically to several of the poems this book, and says he wanted her which appeared in Pope's book; those should be his "heralds" who "strive for you as Greece for Homer strove" (she is no Fenton; she knows no Latin or Greek); he wanted laudatory poems in the front of his book so other poets could be compared to him to his advantage ("for comparison you placed them there"); her final line also suggests she was reluctant to participate: "'Tis not from friends that write, or foes that read;/Censure or praise must from ourselves proceed." Nonetheless, the existence of this poem and the publication of Anne's poetry in Pope's 1717 anonymous volume shows a friendship between the poets in the later 1710s.