and powerful influence of Rofcius, a proprietor in moft of them, being shut against him.

The AUTHOR of LovE in the SUDS to the PRINTER of the MORNING CHRONICLE.

SIR,

can you

"In reprehending the faults of other men you fhould ever be cautious of falling into the error you condemn. In yesterday's paper you indirectly charge me, among others, with having" urged a deteftable charge with as much folly as wickedness against a certain great actor."-What other people have done I know not, nor does it concern me; but I may fafely defy all the Lawyers in WestminsterHall fairly to deduce fuch a charge as you hint at from the eclogue in question. In this refpect it is certainly as innocent as the great actor's Jubilee Ode! But granting it otherwife with any one else, how take upon you to say that fuch a charge is urged foolishly and wickedly? Can you know it to be false or groundless? And if not, on what grounds do you charge the accufers with folly and wickedness? Why does not the CANDOUR of the great actor, reply to the Queries put to him in your paper of Saturday laft? But no ; unable to justify himself at the bar of the publick, he flies for refuge to the quirks and quibbles of Westminster-Hall; and even this at the latter end of a term, in order to deceive the town into a notion that the court will countenance his profecution. Why was not his motion made fooner, that cause might have been fhewn in time, and the futility of it made immediately evident? Believe me, Sir, before an end is put to this business, the publick will be better enabled to judge on which fide the folly and wickedness lies, than you appear to do at present.

THE

POETICAL ALTERCATION

BETWEEN

BENEDICK and BEATRICE.

EXTRACTED FROM THE

MORNING CHRONICLE.

K-K, whom we may justly class in
Th' envenom'd race of Scribes-affafin,
Accofts the celebrated Davy,

With "Sir, your humble-Phoebus fave ye!
"A comedy I've newly written-

Curfe me! if any bard in Britain

Can fhew you one of equal merit ;
Nay, half fo full of wit and spirit.
You'll find it, Sir, all air, all life;
E'en better than my Widowed Wife.
A piece like this must always please one:
By Gd 'twill run you half the feason!
Therefore, Sir Rofcius, pray remember
To have it ready in November."

Garrick refus'd-Curfe me, cries Ken,
I'll trounce the fcoundrel with my pen.

Refufe

>

So a young

brim in Catharine-street

A man of fober caft will greet;

"Give me," fhe cries, with luring leer,
"Give me a glafs of wine, my dear."
Then grafps his arm with feeming rapture,
In hopes of making him her capture.

But if in prudence he forbear

To venture on her dangerous ware,
Or to her painted beauty cold,

He force the nymph to quit her hold,
Th' indignant brim exclaims aloud,
T'exafperate the paffing crowd;
And, in moft diabolic fpite,

Pronounces him a Sodomite.

BENEDICK.

TO

BENEDICK.

G-K, whom men, of ev'ry clafs, call
A fhuffling, avaricious r-fc-l,

For full five years had K—k fobb'd off,
And his fair name and fortune robb'd of;

Allowing

Το

Allowing Falstaff's Wedding merit,
And fworn to get it up with fpirit,
Yet fhrinking back, from year to year,
Thro' meanness, or invidious fear,
Left any other should be thought
By Shakespeare's genius to be taught,
Prior engagements ftill pretending,
Which K-k finding ftill no end in ;
Each mushroom produce of the season
put off him still made a reafon,
Refolv'd at length its fate to know
He claims an answer, yes, or no :
Bent, as in Gk there no truft is,
To do himself poetic justice;
To shew for whom and what rejected,
A piece approv'd is thus neglected.
G——k, who fans equivocation,
Deceit or mental reservation,
Mean fubterfuge or fly fuggeftion,
Ne'er answer'd yet the plainest queftion;
Conscious of ev'ry partial trick
He others play'd, for fake of Bick,
Demurs, and threatens life and law,
If K-k dare his pen to draw;
Who rifing G-k's fair accufer,
Is branded as a base traducer;
By G-k ev'ry odium thrown
On K-k's name, to fave his own.

So th' outlaw'd fmuggler, bafe invader
Of th' interefts of the honeft trader,
His cargo feiz'd, himself in danger,
Addreffes ev'ry paffing ftranger;

To bring the officer to shame,
Brands him with an Informer's name.
Informer, vile! he cries aloud,
Informer, echoes thro' the crowd;

Boys hoot, men cuff, and women fcoff;
Meanwhile the mifcreant fhuffles off:
Thus knaves, fupported by the mob,
The private and the public rob.

BEATRICE.

To

BEATRICE.

SINCE, Beatrice, you've undertaken
To fave a fland'rous culprit's bacon,
(A culprit of guilt's blackest roll, and
Unprincipled as Jemmy Bolland.)

By telling us how, where, and when
Dan GARRICK has ill-treated KEN;

Give me, good dame, I humbly crave you,

A hearing for my fav'rite Davy;
I've my objections-let me ftart 'em-
The rule is," audi alteram partem."

Some years ago an honeft fellow,
As ever with fheer fack was mellow,
Who long has plac'd his hopes, his all, in
The gains of hiftrionic calling,

Who now is journeyman, now mafter,
(Oh may he never meet difafter!

Was offer'd, for the truth afk KEN of it

Jack Falstaff's Wedding for his benefit.

LOVE