JOHN WILKES FLIES THE COUNTRY 101 



In the text, the author is supposed to enter, reading 

 the title-page of Kidgell's essay : 



' I, Kidgell, Artiuvi Magister, 

 For Wilkes's back have spread this blister. 

 Of Heme, in Surrey, am I rector, 

 And preach the Berkeley chapel lecture. 

 And, as you see me, stiff and starch, 

 Am chaplain to the Earl of March — 

 Believe me, gentry, here 's no juggling — 

 My master's other title, Euglen.' 



Then follow a few pages in similar metre, satiris- 

 ing him as informer against Wilkes. The incident 

 caused so great a stir, that even the journeyman 

 printer who pulled this chestnut out of the fire for 

 Kidgell rushed into print to give the plain truth 

 of the methods used to procure a copy of the Essay 

 on Wortian. Here I take leave of a subject which 

 did not do his lordship's reputation the good so 

 prominent a posing as St. George might have 

 implied. 



