Without, as it would seem, properly weighing the difficulty of meeting this demand, Pope called out loudly for vengeance.

When the Dunciad appeared, he had applied (as I have said) for an injunction in Chancery, and had at the same time secured the failure of his application.

The same device was tried in a still more imposing fashion.

The House of Lords had recently decided that it was a breach of privilege to publish a peer's letters without his consent.

Pope availed himself of this rule to fire the most sounding of blank shots across the path of the piratical Curll.