Ambrose Philips, whose Pastorals and dramas were now favourites of the town, and much praised both by Addison and Pope. Swift anticipated the revulsion of feeling that made him an object of ridicule under the name of Namby Pamby. He had the misfortune of becoming involved in a violent quarrel with Pope: but after the triumph of the Whigs, he obtained office in Ireland, under the patronage of Dr. Boulter, the Primate. Swift names him again on p. 316, 1. 22.