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Huntington Library, HM 4857 . Previously published: J. W. Robberds (ed.), A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich, 2 vols (London, 1843), II, pp. 206–209.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Longman is instructed to send you a copy of Palmerin,r Sayers,towill thank in my name for his poems. The volumebecause it is not asso apparent what he is burlesquing. Dr Sayers in his love of the ludicrous reminds me of the Italian
verse-romancers.
I am almost as indignant at your No Bucerismr Watkins can be, – & were the author of those articles unknown
should exclaim with equal virulence at his utter want of candour, & his wilful ignorance. It is a little too bad to quote the
authority of Sanders!xxxxto be found there, – for that lie must have had some author, & none so likely as
this rascal of all rascals, on whom you rely, tho the Catholicks themselves have long been ashamed of his
outrageous calumnies. Oh that you should take so strange a pleasure in playing off paradoxes, – creating with Chymic skill
Jack-a-lanthorns of your own, for the sake of following them astray yourself! The Persiles
Neddy-asses – is the Somersetshire word, – & the term Lion is used at Oxford,comprize a compleat the picture of society in England.
I trace your Romance-reading in the M. Magazine’s Portfolio. & you will find that I continue to persecute Dr Aikin with odd things which he utterly abominates, & of which
he suppresses every one that he can invent any possible motives for suppressing. He beseeches more lifes like D Luisat Francis, which
PitchfordAikinish. I think xxxx<such> work is good
enough to be paid by the piece.
Dr Reeve’sthat <because> Henry is ousted at Norwich, – but because
it forcibly brought to my mind the sense of that fickleness about women, which he might not have had if he found it less easy to
please them, but which is very mischievous in its effect to himself as well as them. Wherever he goes some new face supplants the
last – with Miss Noelwill <must> be single I had rather it were from a
disappointed attachment than for want of one. In the former case the heart may be purified, in the latter it is likely to be
hardened, – And if celibacy does not proceed from virtue, it very frequently leads to vice.
I go to London some time during the winter – will any business lead you there so that we may contrive to meet? my time will probably be early in the year, as soon as my family has received an expected addition.
Sir Kay is the Seneschal. read Mort Arthur
The Cid
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