Granted; provided she can bring proof, that she can make a pudding on the 24th instant.
FOOTNOTES:
[334] Horace's words are, "Invenias etiam disjecti membra poetæ."
[335] Perhaps Peter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718), dramatist and translator of Rabelais and "Don Quixote." In a letter in No. 288 of the Spectator, Motteux spoke of himself as "an author turned dealer," and described the goods in his warehouse in Leadenhall Street. In No. 552, Steele gave a glowing account of his friend's "spacious warehouses, filled and adorned with tea, china, and Indian wares."
[336] Cf. the account of Tom Spindle in No. 47.
[337] See No. 104.
[338] "Hamlet," act i. sc. 2.