Paradise Lost,
Bk x., ll 898-908.
| [No. 360] | Wednesday, April 23, 1712 | Steele |
—De paupertate tacentes
Plus poscente ferent.
Hor.
I have nothing to do with the Business of this Day, any further than affixing the piece of
Latin
on the Head of my Paper; which I think a Motto not unsuitable, since if Silence of our Poverty is a Recommendation, still more commendable is his Modesty who conceals it by a decent Dress.