If they subscribe readily the first time, I renew my request to beg a dedication fee.

If they let me have that, I smite them once more for engraving their coat of arms at the top.

Thus, continued he, I live by vanity, and laugh at it.

But between ourselves, I am now too well known, I should be glad to borrow your face a bit: a nobleman of distinction has just returned from Italy; my face is familiar to his porter; but if you bring this copy of verses, my life for it you succeed, and we divide the spoil.' 'Bless us, George,' cried I, 'and is this the employment of poets now! Do men of their exalted talents thus stoop to beggary! Can they so far disgrace their calling, as to make a vile traffic of praise for bread ?' 'O no, Sir,' returned he, 'a true poet can never be so base; for wherever there is genius there is pride.

The creatures I now describe are only beggars in rhyme.