T. Bailey, the printer, evidently combined his printing business with
the selling of patent medicines.

[21]
The latter may be read in Savage's Poems, Cooke's edition, II, 162. The
complimentary verses first printed before the original issue.

[22]
His poem _To Mrs. Eliza Haywood on her Writings_ was hastily inserted in
the fourth volume of _Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems_ when that
collection had reached its third edition (1732). In the fourth edition
of ten years later it stands, with the verses already described, at the
beginning of Volume I.

[23]
In the Preface to _Lasselia_ (1723), for instance, she feels obliged to
defend herself from "that Aspersion which some of my own Sex have been
unkind enough to throw upon me, that I seem to endeavour to divert more
than to improve the Minds of my Readers. Now, as I take it, the Aim of
every Person, who pretends to write (tho' in the most insignificant and
ludicrous way) ought to tend at least to a good Moral Use; I shou'd be
sorry to have my Intentions judg'd to be the very reverse of what they
are in reality. How far I have been able to succeed in my Desires of
infusing those Cautions, too necessary to a Number, I will not pretend
to determine; but where I have had the Misfortune to fail, must impute
it either to the Obstinacy of those I wou'd persuade, or to my own
Deficiency in that very Thing which they are pleased to say I too much
abound in--a true description of Nature."

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