[178] Sir Humphry Monoux. See No. 36.
[179] "As for the satirical part of these writings, those against the
gentlemen who profess gaming are the most licentious: but the main of
them I take to come from losing gamesters, as invectives against the
fortunate; for in very many of them I was very little else but the
transcriber. If any have been more particularly marked at, such persons
may impute it to their own behaviour before they were touched upon, in
publicly speaking their resentment against the author, and professing
they would support any man who should insult him." (No. 271.)
[180] The story of the capture of Troy through Sinon's treachery, by
help of a wooden horse, is told in the second book of the "Æneid."
Sinon, as Dryden puts it, was
"Taken, to take--who made himself their prey,
T'impose on their belief, and Troy betray."