It described Pope as introduced by Cibber and Lord Warwick to very bad company.

The story was one which could only be told by a graceless old representative of the old school of comedy, but it hit its mark.

The two Richardsons once found Pope reading one of Cibber's pamphlets.

He said, "These things are my diversion;" but they saw his features writhing with anguish, and young Richardson, as they went home, observed to his father that he hoped to be preserved from such diversions as Pope had enjoyed.

The poet resolved to avenge himself, and he did it to the lasting injury of his poem.