Swift here forgets the circumstances, and gives the rein to his satire in its full force. Had he remembered these circumstances, he could hardly, even in derision, have spoken thus of the position of Charles Boyle, who, scarcely more than a schoolboy, had offered combat to Bentley. Whatever Bentley was, not even his bitterest enemy could have described him as an 'infant,' a 'schoolboy,' or a 'coffee-house wit.'