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unmercifully." Many efforts were made to discover the authors, for the company as a whole felt itself outraged, since those who were not attacked tonight might, as likely as not, be the victims of tomorrow. The secret was, however, well kept; but the suspicion of being responsible for some of the squibs fell upon a physician, described as "an old cynical, ill-tempered fellow, and much uglier than Colonel Chartres, Orator Henley,
or the d-----1." He may have been innocent,
in which case he is entitled to sympathy, because he was in the following verses severely castigated by one whose name has not transpired but is mentioned by Derrick as "a man of high position, remarkable for his wit and understanding "—
(To the tune of " God Save the King:')
" Dr. ------,
'Tis my advice to you,
Burn your lampoons; Or you will find it true, When you're beat black and blue, You will have cause to rue
Writing lampoons.
" Wit may correct abuse ; You have no such excuse
For your lampoons :
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