In Competition No. 2408 you were given an opening couplet — ‘Oh, plague of plagues! Wherever I turn, French tricks,/ French schemes, French morals, and French politics!’ — and invited to continue either in the modern or the 18th-century mode.
The opening couplet came from a contributor to Fraser’s Magazine, a Tory journal, in the late 18th century.
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