From the Grub-Street Journal. IV. Epigram on Mr. M[oo]re’s Going to Law with Mr. Giliver

Inscribed to Attorney Tibbald

ONCE in his life M[oo]re judges right:

His sword and pen not worth a straw,

An author that could never write,

A gentleman that dares not fight,

Has but one way to tease—by law.

This suit, dear Tibbald, kindly hatch;

Thus thou may’st help the sneaking elf;

And sure a printer is his match,

Who ’s but a publisher himself.