...provoked by the worst Usage I can receive from others, to make an Example of any particular Criminal. ... It is not Lais or Silenus, but the Harlot and the...Species, not as it is circumstanced in an Individual" (Spectator, no. 16; 1: 72). The urbane stylist refuses either to be teased out of his detachment or,...

...example of any particular criminal. In short I have so much of a Drawcansir * in rue, that I shall pass over a single foe to charge whole armies. It is not Lais or SUenus, but the harlot and the drunkard whom I shall endeavour to expose; and shall consider the crime...