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    [ Was Mr Stivers quite correct in quoting the Avvocato ?

    The result of our inquiries is different . He reports that no foreigner ever since the French , &c . This observation held good for only sixteen years . There has since been one

    exception ; in Mr Leckie ; but he knew the ministers , and he pleaded for himself . ]

    MR STIVERS TO LADY C . A p assable girl here who has taken a whimsical sort of fancy for me , told me she knew I could do what I liked with my master . On my only

    nodding , which implied no such thing , but rather the contrary , she said she should be glad if I would lend her our carriage and horses for a day or two in the carnival . I did

    not like to disoblige her , though there was no reason on earth why I should oblige her , and I asked Mr Talboys what was to be done . Have I mentioned this gentleman to you ? I think I have not : well then

    I will . My master , the great encourager , is the devil himself for picking up : He picked up a poet . I thought

    it hard , and more than flesh and blood could bear , that he should set down a poet at his own table , when 1 had lived with him two years , and stood behind it . True it is , master

    said , w Stivers ! a gentleman is coming to reside in the house ; there may be a little more trouble , but I shall remember it at the end of the year / ' I hope he will ; he is

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    much to be pitied , and half excused . He : took to this ,

    poet , as people take sometimes to a dog , to keep others off . For here in Italy the poets are as troublesome as the flies , and pretty nearly as plentiful . At every inn , as you alight ,

    they bring you a copy of verses , as we Englishmen call it ; but they Italians , who ought to call it so ( for the same does for five hundred ) call it by another name , Epitalamio or

    Lode , in which every prince is Tito , every green-grocer Mecenate . The light of these fire-flies darts high and low , over wet and dry , and , coming out of one insect , falls upon another . A certain Fantoni .

    who called- himself Labmdo , was father abbot to this order of Famelicans . He praised even Lord Cowper ! what an appetite the poet must have had for dinner , and what a

    digestion must the peer have had for adulation . Well , Mr Talboys is not so much amiss * Although he is not very

    sociable with us , he is not greatly more with master , but has good humour and a good word for all . This coin is very light , yet those who play with it always win more than those who stake down heavier . So

    that , although we ought to be displeased at las coming into the family without our being consulted , we are not upon bad

    terms with him . His qualifications as a poet are very questionable , for , when master , at first meeting , invited him to dinner , he declined iU

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    High And Low lAfe in Ital y * % 4 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/25/