'You unthankful drab!' she will
say, 'didn't I take you into my house when you hadn't a shift to your
back, a petticoat to your tail, nor a morsel of bread to put into
your belly? Han't I clothed you from head to foot like a gentlewoman,
supported you with board, lodging, and all necessaries, till your
own extravagance hath brought you into distress; and now you have
the impudence, you nasty, stinking, brimstone bungaway! to say you
are hardly dealt with, when I demand no more than my own?' Thus
the w-- and the author are equally oppressed, and even left without
the melancholy privilege of complaining; so that they are fain to
subscribe to such terms as their creditors shall please to impose."
This illustration operated so powerfully upon the conviction
and resentment of the whole college, that revenge was universally
denounced against those who had aggrieved the plaintiff; and, after
some debate, it was agreed, that he should make a new translation
of some other saleable book, in opposition to a former version
belonging to the delinquents, and print it in such a small size
as would enable him to undersell their property; and that this new
translation should be recommended and introduced into the world
with the whole art and influence of the society.
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