A weak officious friend becomes a foe.
While he would seem his author’s fame to further,
The murderous critic has avenged thy murder.
On the inimitable Miss Steele, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Steele, afterwards the Right Hon. Lady Trevor.
BY MR. PHILLIPS.
Oh! for ever could I dwell upon the name.
Fair nymph, on whom kind nature has dispensed
The mother’s beauty, and the father’s sense
The piercing dart this moment do I feel,
For sure the wound is mortal that’s from Steele.