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CROTCHET CASTLE.
LADY CLARINDA.
Very amusing, however.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Very amusing, very amusing.
MR. CHAINMAIL.
My quarrel with the northern enchanter is, that he has grossly misrepresented the twelfth century.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
He has misrepresented every thing, or he would not have been very amusing. Sober truth is but dull matter to the reading rabble. The angler, who puts not on his hook the bait that best pleases the fish, may sit all day on the bank without catching a gudgeon.[1]
- ↑ Eloquentiæ magister, nisi, tamquam piscator, eam imposuerit hamis escam, quam scierit appetituros esse pisciculos, sine spe pædæ moratur in scopulo.
