I have had another Stroke at Martial’s Epigram ending with Jam Dic Posthume de tribus Capellis: My Master1 liked this so well that I printed it in the publick Advertiser.

The Question as all Europe sees
Is—who shall keep our Colonies;
Mean while the Whigs light up the Street,
And tear each Tory that they meet;
The Tories of their Powr tenacious,
Cry Lord these Whigs are so audacious:
Of Greeks and Romans Luttrell raves,
And Rigby thinks them both but Knaves;
While each with Voice and Action strive
To keep the factious Flame alive,
I'd beg one Whisper if you please,
Who is to keep our Colonies ?

Written by Hester Lynch Thrale. Published in the Public Advertiser 16 March 1779.

1. 1. Henry Thrale.