Trulletta. 'Tis wanting what should follow—Jove should follow;
But 'tis torn off—why should that word alone
Be torn from his petition?
—why, indeed?
An imitation of Osmyn's complaint in the Mourning Bride.
Quere, whether a word, with as much propriety, may be said
to be torn off from a verbal, as from a written petition?—This
I recommend as a question to be debated by a certain disputing
society.
Dr. Humbug.