/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dennis (John)
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called the “best abused man in England.” Swift and Pope both satirised him. He is called Zoïlus.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.