Note 22 — Front matter
Reading edition
A recent instance of this must not pass unnoticed. In the Public Advertiser appeared lately the following quaint panegyric, suggested probably to
Roscius
himself by his brother
George
the attorney.
Nature against G—— } Notice of Process.
Dame Nature against G—— now by me Her action brings, and thus she grounds her plea. "I never made a man but still You acted like that man at will; Yet ever must I hope in vain To make a man like you again." Hence ruin'd totally by you, She brings her suit, &c. &c.B. Solicitor for the Plaintiff.
In reply to this notice, it is said, the defendant's plea would have appeared in the same paper; but the cause was obliged to be removed by certiorari to another court; when it appeared thus:
Nature against G—— } Defendant's Plea.
For G—— I without a fee 'Gainst Nature thus put in his plea. "To make a man, like me, of art, Is not, 'tis true, dame Nature's part; I own that Scrub, fool, knave I've play'd With more success than all my trade; But prove it, plaintiff, if you can, That e'er I acted like a man." Of this we boldly make denial.—— Join issue, and proceed to trial.
A. Attorney for the Defendant.