Essai de critique indirecte.

Sir, be pacificall, the fellowe was possest with some critique frenzie, and wee impute it to his madnes.

I think he dwells a shade too much on her small asperities and acidities, and on that "ton de critique mesquine", which he puts down to her provincialism.

Harvey, the happy above happiest men I read**; that, sitting like a looker-on Of this worldes stage, doest note with critique pen