Landor.—How?
North.—I have seen some part of it in print before.
Landor.—Where?
North.—In a production of your own.
Landor.—Impossible!
North.—In a rhymed lampoon printed in London in 1836. It is called "A Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors." Do you know such a thing?
Landor.—(Aside. Unlucky! some good-natured friend has sent him that suppressed pamphlet.) Yes, Mr. North; a poetical manifesto of mine with that title was printed but not published.
North.—No, only privately distributed among friends. It contained some reflections on Wordsworth.
Landor.—It did.
North.—Why did you suppress it?