But the revival of the "Spanish Friar" could afford but little gratification to the author, whose newly-adopted religion is so severely satirised in the person of Father Dominic.

The principal Delia Cruscan poems were published in the British Album in 1789, and the collection was popular until Gifford's Baviad (followed by his Mæviad) appeared in 1791, and satirised its conceits so mercilessly that the school collapsed.

The opponents of Lord Randolph Churchill, both Liberal and Conservative, did not satirise him nobly and honestly, as one of those great wits to madness near allied.