"P.S.—I leave this to your discretion; if any body thinks the old line a good one or the cheese a bad one, don't accept either. But, in that case, the word share is repeated soon after in the line—
"To share the master's bread and salt;
and must be altered to—
"To break the master's bread and salt.
This is not so well, though—confound it!"
LETTER 132. TO MR. MURRAY.
"Oct. 12. 1813.
"You must look The Giaour again over carefully; there are a few lapses, particularly in the last page.—'I know 'twas false; she could not die;' it was, and ought to be—'I knew.' Pray observe this and similar mistakes.