Would be whining if robb'd of his T.
ON THE LATIN GERUNDS.
When Dido's spouse to Dido would not come,
She mourn'd in silence, and was Di, Do, Dumb!
THE SPLENDID ANNUAL;[74]
Or, Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Lord Mayor.
Literature, even in this literary age, is not the ordinary pursuit of the citizens of London, although every merchant is necessarily a man of letters, and underwriters are as common as cucumbers. Notwithstanding, however, my being a citizen, I am tempted to disclose the miseries and misfortunes of my life in these pages, because, having heard the "Anniversary" called a splendid annual, I hope for sympathy from its readers, seeing that I have been a "splendid annual" myself.