From the Grub-Street Journal. II. Epigram (“Should D[enni]s print”)

SHOULD D[enni]s print, how once you robb’d your brother,

Traduced your monarch, and debauch’d your mother;

Say, what revenge on D[enni]s can be had;

Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad?

Of one so poor you cannot take the law;

On one so old your sword you scorn to draw.

Uncaged then let the harmless monster rage,

Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.