From successary, but purchas'd with my blood.”

The poet doubtless wrote “successry,” which, though not adopted in our language, would be, on many occasions, as here, a much more significant phrase than ancestry.

“The Little French Lawyer.”

Act i. sc. 1. Dinant's speech:—

“Are you become a patron too? 'Tis a new one,

No more on't,” &c.

Seward reads:—

“Are you become a patron too? How long

Have you been conning this speech? 'Tis a new one,” &c.