"

A NOVEL.

Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL III.

LONDON:

SAUNDERS AND OTLEY,

PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT STREET.

1827.

EMLB

ALMACK'S.

CHAPTER I.

THE OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT,

Leicester. Then are we all resolved?

All. We are all resolved,

Leicester. All?

All. All.

Dangle. Nem. con. egad!

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Puff. Oh! yes, when Patronesses do agree, their unanimity is wonderful.

CRITIC.

AFTER all, there certainly is nothing like the heroic comical style! it is so convenient; exalting what is humble, and giving consequence to what is very common. And is not this, good

reader, what we are all trying to do every hour

of our lives? To begin, then, sublimely

"Sol through wide curtains shot a timorous ray;"