As Proud as Poor, his Masters he'll defy; And writes a _Piteous *Satyr_ upon Honesty. Some think the Poem had been pretty good, _If he the Subject had but understood_. He got Five hundred Pence by this, and more, _As sure as he had ne're a Groat before_.[17] Tutchin's satire would be henceforth the rough variety. In _The Foreigners_ he would also resort to fierce lampoons of William III's court favorites. In the rash of satires that followed _The Foreigners_ and _The True-Born Englishman_, the anonymous author of _The Fable of the Cuckoo_ (1701) pointed to the common tradition shared by both poems. For he attacked Defoe's "hatchet muse" as having been inspired by such "Modern Sharpers of the Town" as Tutchin and "Old[ha]m the Bell-weather of Tory Faction," who first horned Defoe's satire, "And ever since perverted all good Nature." Advertised in _The Flying Post_ for July 31-Aug. 1, 1700, _The Foreigners_ was published shortly thereafter by the ardent Whig Anne Baldwin. The "vile abhor'd Pamphlet, in very ill Verse, written by one _Mr. Tutchin_, and call'd _The Foreigners_"--Defoe recalled years later in _An Appeal to Honour and Justice_ (1715)--filled him "with a kind of Rage." Tutchin's irascible temper had again taken hold. Scurrilously, he assailed foreigners in high office, especially William III's Dutch favorites, for their monopolizing preferments and usurping command, under such transparent aliases as "Bentir" for William Bentinck, first Earl of Portland, and "Keppech" for Arnold Joost van Keppel, first Earl of Albemarle. The manner was Dryden's in _Absalom and Achitophel_; the venom was Tutchin's own. Official reaction to _The Foreigners_ came quickly. The untrustworthy William Fuller spread the gossip that Tutchin fled from his Majesty's messengers, and found refuge "in a blind Ale-house, at the Windmill, by Mr. Bowyers, at Camberwel." On August 10th, he was taken "into custody of a messenger"; and at the grand inquest for the city of London, held on August 28th, there was presented "a Poem called _The Foreigners_."[18] A mystery envelops the rest of the legal proceedings. There may even be some truth in the allegation that the parry would long since have "ruffled" Tutchin, except that he pleased them with his "railing at King _William's_ Friends sometimes."[19] _The Foreigners_ also aroused such ephemeral rejoinders as _The Reverse: or, the Tables Turn'd_ and _The Nations: An Answer to the Foreigners_. both published in 1700. Finally, in January of 1701, there was published a satire of more lasting worth, Defoe's _The True-Born Englishman_. Side by side, in _Poems on Affairs of State_ (1703), were reprinted _The Foreigners_ and _The True-Born Englishman_ among verses "_Written by the Greatest Wits of this Age_."[20] Altogether, the two satirists had three poems apiece in the volume. One of Tutchin's poems, "The Tribe of Levi" (1691), was anonymously