The Works of Henry Fielding - Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12 by Henry Fielding
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_Dash_. The ghost would become a motto very well if you would bestow one on him. _Book_. Let me have them all. _Ind_. Sir, I shall provide them. Be pleased to look on that, sir, and print me five hundred proposals and as many receipts. _Book_. "Proposals for printing by subscription a New Translation of Cicero Of the Nature of the Gods, and his Tusculan Questions, by Jeremy Index, Esq." I am sorry you have undertaken this, for it prevents a design of mine. _Ind_. Indeed, sir, it does not; for you see all of the book that I ever intend to publish. It is only a handsome way of asking one's friends for a guinea. _Book_. Then you have not translated a word of it, perhaps. _Ind_. Not a single syllable. _Book_. Well, you shall have your proposals forthwith: but I desire you would be a little more reasonable in your bills for the future, or I shall deal with you no longer; for I have a certain fellow of a college, who offers to furnish me with second-hand mottoes out of the Spectator for twopence each. _Ind_. Sir, I only desire to live by my goods; and I hope you will be pleased to allow some difference between a neat fresh piece, |
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