You'll find it—to disprove them.

Be this, right reverends, your revenge,

For souls the best of cures,

Essay Essayists to upset

And to review Reviewers.

The long and ignoble campaign, as a result of which Jowett was for ten years deprived of the emoluments of his office as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, roused Punch in 1863 to a satiric and imaginary account of the proceedings in the "Small Debts and Heresies Court at Oxford."

Jowett, it need hardly be explained, was doubly obnoxious to the heresy-hunters. He had long been suspect for the liberality of his religious opinions; he had also contributed to Essays and Reviews:—

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A little book[ [8] Professor Jowett made,

And argued not as one of truth afraid;