(Thus, like Cicero, at once go right into the cause)
Is such as demands our most serious attention,
And strong reprobation, and quick intervention.”
(This rattling of words, which is quite in the fashion,
Shows the depth of my zeal, and the force of my passion.)
“Though the traitor’s obligingly eased of his head—
Though a Wilde22. After due inquiry we have satisfied ourselves that the individual here mentioned is not H.M.’s late Solicitor-General, but one Jonathan Wilde, touching whose history vide Jack Sheppard. to the dark-frowning gallows is led—
Tho’ the robber, when caught, is most kindly sent hence
Beyond the blue wave, at his country’s expense!—
Yet so bad, so disgracefully bad, seems to me