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PC.769.050
10-17 Apr 1769:993 (118)
Mr. Goddard, You improve so fast upon your plan, that it is
impossible to keep pace with you. You advertise for run-
away servants in verse, and for lost characters in prose.
If we supposed a character to be worth ten pounds, I do not
see why this should not be advertised in rhime as well as
the other; for we know rhimes assist the memory, and if a
man finds a lost character, he will be more likely to bring
it to the right owner. But as you tell us Mr. John Clapham
generally applies to council learned in the law (a crabbed
study which generally damps all poetic flights) who dress
him for public exhibition, I have taken upon myself, by way
of favour, the dressing of him for once, and as a fool in a
farce, I believe it must be owned he was never better
dressed in his life.
A HUE AND CRY AFTER A CHARACTER,
Whereas there appear'd, as all very well known,
A piece in the Chronicle some time ago,
(An anonymous piece, that's one without name,
Which our conscience and candour incline us to blame)
In which poor John Clapham is sadly belied
With the terms Grub and Dog, and in fowl words beside:
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