Whom God doth help makes bravely his way, His enemies win but shame and dismay.

p. 30TO SCRIBBLERS [30]

p. 30

Would it not be more dignified To run up debts on every side, And then to pay your debts refuse, Than write for rascally Reviews? And lectures give to great and small, In pothouse, theatre, and town-hall, Wearing your brains by night and day To win the means to pay your way? I vow by him who reigns in [hell], It would be more respectable!

p. 31TO A CONCEITED WOMAN

p. 31

Be still, be still, and speak not back again. What right have you to answer in this strain? Whilst I’m a man, a prince of the creation, You’re but a female woman by your station; A creature for man’s sovereign service born, Whose fitting wages are contempt and scorn. A creature formed to dive down in the sea To fetch up sea-eggs for the likes of me; Only too grateful, when we’ve stilled our greed, If on our leavings you’re allowed to feed. If thus I speak, I speak on public grounds, My only aim is to keep well in bounds.

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p. 32London: Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W. Edition limited to Thirty Copies.

p. 32

London

Footnotes:

[14] Karise-By = Karise Village.

[30] Composed upon the occasion of the refusal by Lockhart to insert, in The Quarterly Review, Borrow’s Essay suggested by Ford’s Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, 1845, in the unmutilated and unamended form in which the author had written it.

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