[15] See the Sessions-paper; in which this admirable plea is made use
of by ROSCIUS to exculpate a culprit accused of murder.
[16] See the same; in which this pompous pseudo-philosopher affects to
suppose cowardice incompatible with the character of an Italian bravo.
[17] So called from having not long since made one in a poetical
triumvirate, which gave occasion to the following verses in imitation
of Dryden's famous epigram on Milton;
"Three poets in three distant ages born," &c.
And that the part our gentle NYKY play'd
Was but philosophy in masquerade.[18]
Let me no longer, then, my loss deplore,
But to his ROSCIUS, Muse, my NYK restore.