And first, it may be said, there is a pelting kind of _thersitical_ satire, as black as the very ink 'tis wrote with----(and by the bye, whoever says so, is indebted to the muster-master general of the _Grecian_ army, for suffering the name of so ugly and foul-mouth'd a man as _Thersites_ to continue upon his roll----for it has furnish'd him with an epithet)----in these productions he will urge, all the personal washings and scrubbings upon earth do a sinking genius no sort of good----but just the contrary, inasmuch as the dirtier the fellow is, the better generally he succeeds in it.

It may be said, there is a pelting kind of Thersitical satire, as black as the ink 'tis wrote with - this sort of satirist urges that all the personal washings and scrubbings upon earth do a genius no good - but on the contrary, the dirtier the fellow is, the better he succeeds.
