self-sufficient:--None can tax me with having too great an Opinion of my
own Genius, when I aim at nothing but what the meanest may perform. "I
have nothing to value myself on, but a tolerable Share of Discernment."

[27]
See the Preface to _The Injur'd Husband_ quoted in Chap. IV.

[28]
Preface to _The Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse_ (1725). A similar
complaint had appeared in the Dedication of _The Fair Captive_ (1721).
"For my own part ... I suffer'd all that Apprehension could inflict, and
found I wanted many more Arguments than the little Philosophy I am
Mistress of could furnish me with, to enable me to stem that Tide of
Raillery, which all of my Sex, unless they are very excellent indeed,
must expect, when once they exchange the Needle for the Quill."

[29]
See a poem by Aaron Hill, _To Eliza upon her design'd Voyage into Spain_
(undated), Hill's _Works_, III, 363. Also _The Husband_, 59. "On a trip
I was once taking to France, an accident happen'd to detain me for some
days at Dover," etc. Mrs. Haywood's relations with Hill have been
excellently discussed by Miss Dorothy Brewster, _Aaron Hill_ (1913),
186.

[30]
The first of these was a translation of the Chevalier de Mouhy's best
known work, _La Mouche, ou les Aventures et espiègleries facétieuses de
Bigand_, (1730), and may have been done by Mrs. Haywood herself. The
second title certainly savors of a typical Haywoodian production, but I
have been unable to find a copy of these alleged publications. Neither