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"Say on," said I, listening to his talk; "how do you propose to make up

for my diffidence, and reduce to order this chaos of perplexity I am in?"

To which he ra, and

which ought to be by persons of importance and rank, can be removed if

you yourself take a little trouble to make them; you can afterwards

baptise the them on

Prester John of the Indies or the Ee, were said to have been famous poets: and even if they were

not, and any pedants or bachelors should attack you and question the

fact, never care two ainst you they cannot cut off the hand you wrote it with

"As to references in the in to the books and authors fros you put into your story, it is only

contriving to fit in nicely any sentences or scraps of Latin you ive you much

trouble to look up; so as, when you speak of freedom and captivity, to

insert

_Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro;_

and then refer in the in to Horace, or whoever said it; or, if you

allude to the power of death, to come in with--