Sextus Quintus
was not of so generous and forgiving a Temper. Upon his being made Pope, the statue of
Pasquin
was one Night dressed in a very dirty Shirt, with an Excuse written under it, that he was forced to wear foul Linnen, because his Laundress was made a Princess. This was a Reflection upon the Pope's Sister, who, before the Promotion of her Brother, was in those mean Circumstances that
Pasquin
represented her. As this Pasquinade made a great noise in
Rome
, the Pope offered a Considerable Sum of Mony to any Person that should discover the Author of it.
Author, relying upon his Holiness's Generosity, as also on some private Overtures which he had received from him, made the Discovery himself; upon which the Pope gave him the Reward he had promised, but at the same time, to disable the Satyrist for the future, ordered his Tongue to be cut out, and both his Hands to be chopped off