My only excuse is, that they offered me a very liberal sum, and that I have laboured hard through a long life, without more pecuniary emolument than a lawyer gets for two special retainers, or a public performer sometimes for two or three songs.

Farewell; pray let me hear from 3-011 at your early convenience, And believe me faithfully your Much obliged WM.

WORDSWORTH.[102] [101] An Annual, to which Wordsworth had been induced to become a contributor.
[102] _Memoirs_, ii.

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