16 ('_my_ Oceana').

As it seems to have escaped the commentators, a short quotation must be given here: 'Though you have scribled your eyes out, your works have never been printed but for the company of Chandlers and Tobacco-Men, who are your Stationers, and the onely men that vend your Labors' (pp.

4-5).

'He [a member of the Rota] said that he himself reprieved the Whole _Defence of the People of England_ for a groat, that was sentenced to vile _Mundungus_, and had suffer'd inevitably (but for him), though it cost you much oyle and the Rump 300_l._ a year,' &c.

(ibid.).