"Come, this is docile and agreeable of you. The Men at Will's, in Fact, extolled this Passage, and pronounced it to be my own! Taxed me with reading a Poem I had written, as that of another Hand!"
"Nay, now the Water-Nymphs begin to rise in Value in my Eyes."
"In Fact, I had said Something like this, only not so well, in a former Piece; and they thought I had now worked it out, and improved on it. So that you see I don't exactly want our Things to clash; nor to get you accused of Plagiary...."
"Mr. Caryl, not another Word.—The Passage shall be omitted."
"Well, I like this; I like your Feeling. Thank you, thank you. We need never allude to it."
"Never again."
"As for 'Truth,' let it stand. You have yielded a Point to me, I'll yield one to you."
"I'm glad of that, for I really could not have withdrawn that Passage."
"And I'll speak to Dodsley to-morrow, and get you into the Collection; so expect a Proof-Sheet at no very distant Date, and then we shall look on you as one of the Guild."