[544] Lady Bradshaigh to Richardson, January 11, 1749. "Correspondence of Samuel Richardson," ed. Barbauld, London, 1804, 6 vols. 12mo, vol. iv. p. 240.
[545] "Complete Works," vol. iv. p. 568.
Listeth, lordes, in good entent,
And I wol telle verrayment
Of mirthe and of solas, &c.
The caricature of the popular heroic stories of the day is extremely close (see below, p. 347).
[547] Tale of the Canon's Yeoman, l. 995.
... For the tyrant is of gretter might,
By force of meynee for to sleen doun-right,
And brennen hous and hoom, and make al plain,
Lo! therfor is he cleped a capitain;
And, for the outlawe hath but smal meynee,
And may nat doon so greet an harm as he,
Ne bringe a contree to so greet mescheef,
Men clepen him an outlawe or a theef.
(Maunciple's tale, in "Complete Works," iv. p. 562.)
[549] "A Treatise on the Astrolabe" in "Complete Works," vol. iii. p. 175.