WHICH HAVE ENGAGED THE ATTENTION, EXCITED THE
ADMIRATION, AND AFFORDED INSTRUCTION,

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THE WISE AND GOOD,

IN EVERY AGE.

BY THOMAS TOWNE,
Author of "The Village in an Uproar.”

VOL. II.

London:

PRINTED FOR FRANCIS WESTLEY,
STATIONERS' COURT & AVE MARIA LANE..

1823.

2524. f. 33

INTRODUCTORY DIALOGUE.

A BOOKSELLER'S SHOP.

A Lady, her Daughter, and
Bookseller.

Lady.-WHAT still among your books! Have you not yet lanched your coach? Fine times for Booksellers-Knights now grace their profession.

Bookseller. By attendance at Court, some, it is true, have obtained the honour of knighthood, but from trade very little emolument can be