When his poem "Night Piece" was attacked by William Kenrick in "Kapelion, or Poetical Ordinary", possibly out of a prearranged publicity stunt, Smart used "The Midwife" in December, 1750, to attack back at Kenrick and promised an "Old Woman's Dunciad" to be written against the other poet. However, Kenrick beat Smart to the use of the title and printed his own in January, 1751. This feud lasted as attacks published in a few issues of "The Midwife", but it soon died out when Smart focused his attention to writing a prologue and epilogue for a production of "Othello" and using the magazine to promote it.