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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: Anecdotes of the Learned Pig - With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and Illustrations from Bozzy, Piozzi &c. &c. - - -Author: James Boswell and Hester Lynch Piozzi - - - -Release Date: January 23, 2016 [eBook #51017] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANECDOTES OF THE LEARNED PIG*** - - -E-text prepared by MWS, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by -Internet Archive/American Libraries (https://archive.org/details/americana) - - - -Note: Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive/American Libraries. See - https://archive.org/details/anecdotesoflearn00bosw - - -Transcriber's note: - - Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). - - Small capital letters have been transcribed in upper case. - - - - - -ANECDOTES OF THE LEARNED PIG. - -WITH NOTES, -CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY, - -AND -ILLUSTRATIONS FROM BOZZY, PIOZZI, &c. &c. - - -_Epicuri de grege porcus._ - - -LONDON: -Printed for T. HOOKHAM, New Bond Street. -M,DCC,LXXXVI. - - - - -ADVERTISEMENT. - -The Editor is indebted to mere accident for his acquaintance with -the following ſprightly performance; and, as it ſeemed to have been -the Author’s intention to have written notes, from ſeveral detached -papers having reference to the text, the Editor has taken the liberty -to introduce them as ſuch, and add ſome trifling references by way of -proof or illuſtration, which he hopes may not be deemed impertinent. - -_May_ 12, 1786. - - - - - -ANECDOTES - -OF THE - -LEARNED PIG [1]. - - -The great and learned Pig, of which it is our hap to ſpeak, was -produced in a ſty belonging to an old Tory, bookſeller, in [2] -_Moorfields_. At that time _Moorfields_ was diſtinguiſhed by rails -which [3] fluttered with party writings and libels of every ſort; and -it is remarkable that his mother, during her pregnancy, tore down from -thoſe rails, and fairly devoured one whole volume of _Filmer_ and all -_Sacheverell_’s ſermons at a meal; after which ſhe was obſerved to -grunt more and louder, and to lie longer in the ſun, and deeper in the -mire, than it had before been her cuſtom to do. She was delivered of -our Pig on the morning of the _tenth of June_. He was ſtrong and bony, -but of an inelegant form, and betrayed a very uncommon roughneſs in -his ſqueak; and it was ſoon after remarked by the neighbours, that his -trottings after his mother were made in [4] zig-zags, and not in -ſtraight lines as is uſual with other pigs. After his mother, however, -he reſolutely trotted, and one morning, as ill fortune would have it, -into a garden which had belonged to the great _Milton_, and was now in -the poſſeſſion of one of his daughters. Here he fed voraciouſly upon -_white roſes_, whilſt his lady mother was buſily employed in rooting up -all the _red ones_. He was in this place ſeized by the owner, and ſo -ſeverely whipped, that he thought no other than that ſhe was whipping -him to death in preparation for a luxurious meal. Of this whipping he -retained through life the higheſt reſentment, and bore ever after the -moſt inveterate hatred of the whole _Miltonic line_. On the fifth of -November following he was taken up, without any warrant, by the rabble, -for the uſes of a _Whig feaſt_, and was very near being _roaſted_ at -the ſame fire with the _Pope_, the _Devil_, and the _Pretender_; but -this being diſcovered to be ſomething _meaſly_, he was turned -looſe to be cured, as they deridingly ſaid, by the [5] _royal touch_. -Of this event he retained the ſtrongeſt ſenſibility, and conſidered -ever after his fellow ſufferers, the _Pope_ and the _Pretender_, with -great complacence, if not affection; but as to the other _party_, -though expoſed to the ſame diſhonours, there was ſomething in his -horns and his tail which he could never be brought to endure. -The touch already mentioned, though profanely ſneered at by the _Whig -rabble_, was ſoon afterwards in good earneſt applied; but ſo great an -obliquity of head had by this time taken place, that it could never -be perfectly reſtored. Upon this memorable occaſion there was placed -about his neck a ribband of _true blue_, to which hung a ſilver coin, -diſplaying royal lineaments of the _Stuart line_, making ſo ſtrong -an impreſſion on his young fancy, that for that line he ever after -retained the moſt [6] paſſionate regard. Thus decorated, he conſidered -himſelf, and was conſidered by others, as a kind of [7] _Tantony_, or -_St. Anthony_’s Pig, belonging to the Crown. Not long after this period -he was heard one morning as he lay in the ſun to grunt forth, -portentouſly the following rhymes: - - Gruntledum, gruntledum, gruntledum, ſqueak, - - I hope very ſoon to be able to ſpeak; - - Through my griſtly proboſcis, I find, that I can - - Already cry _Ay_ like a Parliament man: - - Like a maid I ſqueak, like a lover can whine, - - And ſnort like an Alderman laden with wine. - - Gruntledum, gruntledum, gruntledum, ſqueak, - - I hope very ſoon to be able to ſpeak. - - [1] “He was not at all offended, when, comparing all our - acquaintance to ſome animal or other, we pitched upon the - elephant for his reſemblance, adding, that the proboſcis of that - creature was like his mind moſt exactly, ſtrong to buffet even - the tyger, and pliable to pick up even the pin.”—Piozzi, p. - 205.—N.B. For elephant our author probably read _pig_. - - [2] We have ſought for information concerning this fact, that - the gentleman deſignated in the text was born in _Moorfields_, - or that his father was a bookſeller there, which, however, we - confeſs to have heard, but when or where we can by no means - remember. - - [3] - Cloath ſpice, line trunks, or flutt’ring in a row, - Befringe the rails of _Bedlam_ or Soho. - POPE’S IM. OF HORACE, Ep. I. B. 2. - - [4] “When in company where he was not free, or when engaged - earneſtly in converſation, he never gave way to ſuch habits, - which proves that they were not involuntary.” I ſtill, however, - think, that theſe geſtures were involuntary; for ſurely had not - that been the caſe, he would have reſtrained them in the public - ſtreets.—Boſwell’s Tour, p. 9. - - [5] The pretence of a miraculous power in the cure of the evil - was the moſt extraordinary ſtrain of that King-craft of which - James the Firſt ſo loudly boaſted. No manly man, under the - circumſtances of the caſe, would have ſet up this pretence, or - have expected any effect from it but that of public deriſion and - contempt; but weak and credulous men take, perhaps, the beſt - meaſure of human weakneſs and credulity, and ſo deep did this - fraud ſtrike its roots, that, authenticated as it was by the - clergy, and annually certified by the ſurgeons and phyſicians - of the royal houſehold, it ſurvived the civil war, was reſtored - with Charles the Second, extended beyond the revolution, and was - only extinguiſhed by the act of ſettlement, which, taking the - principles of the Britiſh government out of the clouds, placed - them on the firm baſis of the earth. The pretenſions of Alexander - were of a bolder and more rational ſort, and held to be ſo - important, that his ſucceſſors, who had no kindred intereſt in - the horns of Ammon, yet mingled them in their crowns and tiaras, - till at laſt the Roman Titans tumbled from their ſeats one after - another theſe fictitious gods. The moſt deceitful glimmer of - divine claim ſeems to have had more influence on the mind of the - perſon who ſeems to have been deſignated in the text, than the - moſt ſolid principles of political right. - - [6] “I mentioned Lord Hailes as a man of anecdote—He was not - pleaſed with him for publiſhing only ſuch memorials as were - unfavourable for the _Stuart_ family.”—Boſwell’s Tour, p. 312. - - [7] Tantony pigs were pigs who belonged formerly to the Convent - of St. Anthony in the city. Collars were placed about their - necks, inſcribed _St. Anthony_. They fed all over the town, and - out of reſpect to the fathers of that convent, it was uſual for - the paſſengers to give them biſcuits, and other things carried - for that purpoſe in their pockets. The pigs of courſe followed - the paſſengers in this expectation; and hence came the expreſſion - of one perſon’s following another like a Tantony pig. - -This being publicly known, the neighbours now put on him a human coat, -in which condition he appeared as if the _Hog in armour_ had deſcended -from his ſign-poſt to mingle in ſociety, and converſe with man. Nor did -they ſtop here, but ventured alſo to recommend him for a penſion to -the great _miniſterial hog_, though, for the preſent, however, without -effect; for though it was evident enough that our learned Pig could ſay -_Ay_, yet it did not follow that he would be always diſpoſed to -do ſo. He was therefore turned looſe into the ſoil of this great town -to ſubſiſt as he could, where, _idling_ and _rambling_, he picked up -ſometimes flowers, and ſometimes thiſtles, a great number of Greek and -Hebrew roots, with an immenſe quantity of verbage of every ſort [8]. It -is for his honour that he routed in this rich compoſt for years without -giving any offence, except that, through reſentment to the Miltonic -line, he aſſociated rather too long with a very obſcene animal of the -pig kind, called a [9] _Lauder_; and except, that he was taken -ſometimes with ſtrange freaks, and fancied once that he ſaw -ſomething in the [10] ſhape of a ſound of a knocking; and excepting -alſo his too ſonorous gruntulations, and that long concatenation of -ſoapy bubbles which uſually frothed from his mouth [11]. In the -midſt of theſe reſearches he had one morning the good fortune to throw -up this ſentiment in rhyme: - - Say, what is a Tory? A Tory is he - - Who thinks kicking ſhould paſs through every degree; - - And that all political motion ſhould go - - From the toe to the bum, from the bum to the toe. - - Then what is a [12] Whig? A dog full of knavery, - - A raſcal, a ſcoundrel impatient of ſlavery, - - A malignant, a thief;—then tell me if Whig - - Be any more better than gruntledum pig? - - [8] The perſon here deſigned is allowed by the courteſy of the - times to poſſeſs a nervous and elegant ſtile; but ſo unhappy is - the writer of this note, that he can by no means concur in the - general praiſe. He has a notion of Saxon ſimplicity, from which - all departure, not enforced by neceſſity, and regulated by taſte, - aſſimilating, as much as may be, foreign words to the genius of - the Saxon tongue, is to him intolerable. But the writer here - ſpoken of was wholly deficient in taſte, and appears to refer his - Engliſh to ſome foreign ſtandard chanting forth polyſyllables, - and tiring the ear with dull returns of the ſame cadences, for - ever advancing like a poſt horſe, two up and two down, and - incapable of changing his pace, without throwing both himſelf and - his rider in the dirt. But hack writers, like hack horſes, find - it for their eaſe to practiſe an uniform rate. - - [9] _There is_, ſays a remarker on the life of Milton, _a - high degree of prepollent probability that the letter in the - Gentleman’s Magazine for the month of Auguſt 1747, page 363 and - 364, ſigned William Lauder, came from the amicable hand of the - writer of that life_. I do not, however, believe that the writer - of Milton’s life was in the ſecret of Lauder’s forgeries, the - fact itſelf being of ſo extraordinary a nature, that it is not - probable that any two perſons, ſeparately capable of committing - it, ſhould ſo fortuitouſly meet together; yet ſuch was his - malevolence towards Milton, that we muſt admit it to have greatly - clouded his underſtanding. He undoubtedly wrote the preface and - the poſtſcript to Lauder’s publication: in alluſion to which, - Doctor Douglas ſays, _that ’tis hoped, nay ’tis expected, that - the the elegant and nervous writer, whoſe judicious ſentiments - and inimitable ſtyle point out author of Lauder’s preface and - poſtſcript, will no longer allow one to plume himſelf with his - feathers, who appears ſo little to have deſerved his aſſiſtance_. - Lauder confeſſes his guilt in a letter to Doctor Douglas, and - takes all the obloquy on himſelf; but in a ſubſequent letter he - declares, that the penitential one was written for him by that - very gentleman, who has ſince written the life of Milton, and - makes ſome complaints of a breach of friendſhip, _in which he - had placed the moſt implicit and unlimited confidence_; but as - he never charged, that I know of, the writer of Milton’s life - with any participation in the forgery, we impute to him nothing - but a ſtrange malignity which darkened his underſtanding. It - muſt be owned, however, that he cut off the wreck of Lauder with - great management, as well as competent ſucceſs. I remember that - he boaſts in his life of Milton of his having written a prologue - to the Comus of Milton, for the benefit of one of his grand - daughters. This, I ſuppoſe, he would paſs for his benevolence; - but he muſt excuſe me; I am not ſo much the dupe of charity as to - believe, that he who ſo brutally calumniates Milton, his father, - mother, uncles, wives, and children, _and all unfortunate ſouls - that trace him in his line_, would be moved by any charitable - diſpoſition towards any deſcendant of Milton’s, as being ſuch. - The fact, I believe, is, that, finding Milton reduced by the - labours of his friend Lauder to a level with his wiſhes, he - practiſed, in concurrence with Mr. Lauder, one further act of - malice, and endeavoured to fix an obligation on Milton in the - perſon of his granddaughter, conferred by his moſt inveterate - foes as the effect of ſatiated vengeance, converted into mingled - pity and contempt. If there is any harſhneſs in this note, let - it be remembered, that it ſpeaks of a man who, in the inſtance - mentioned, let looſe the moſt outrageous malignity againſt one, - who, whatever political errors he might have imbibed in common - with a great majority of the nation, was, however, as a private - man, of ſo exemplary a virtue, as to do the higheſt honour - to literary purſuit, and whoſe genius, as a poet, conferred - celebrity on the nation itſelf, and in whoſe protection therefore - we ought to have taken a greater ſhare. - - [10] The hiſtory of this knocking is curious; it forms ſuch a - drama of comedy, tragedy, and farce, from its firſt commencement - in Cock Lane, paſſing through the ſolemn vaults of Clerkenwell, - and then to Weſtminſter Hall, as, I believe, never was exhibited - in any other country; a drama wherein childiſhneſs and age, - gravity, dignities, folly, fraud, ſuperſtition, and credulity, - were all largely and confuſedly thrown in to thicken the plot. - That the perſon here deſignated ſhould carry out of this ſcene - any reſpectability of character, is a proof that either he muſt - have poſſeſſed great intrinſic worth, who could bear ſuch large - deductions, or that public opinion has ceaſed to be the teſt of - merit, if any baſe metal can in this manner paſs current for gold. - - [11] Our biographer ſhould have told us alſo, that once he joined - the train of fancy, and paſſing the limits of fact, entered by - the Shakeſpearean gate into fairy land. But in an evil hour, “No - favouring Sybil marked the devious way.” Never was man or pig ſo - aſtounded! and no wonder. He had ſtumbled unaccountably on the - creations of ſenſibility, and found no correſponding emotions - within; yet, unconſcious of defect, he pretended a knowledge of - the country, and even offered himſelf as an unerring guide; but - not long; for, tired with the maze, he gave way, at length, to - new adventurers, and fled as another Gulliver out of Lilliput, - where he had only encumbered the land. - - [12] “No man, however, was more jealouſly attached to his party; - he not only loved a man the better, if he hated a _Whig_. Dear - Bathurſt, ſaid he to me one day, was a man to my very heart’s - content; he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a - _Whig_; he was a very good hater.”—Piozzi’s Memoirs, p. 83. - - “_Pulteney_ was as paltry a fellow as could be. He was a _Whig_, - who pretended to be honeſt; and you know it is ridiculous for a - _Whig_ to pretend to be honeſt.” Boſwell’s Journal, p. 424. - - Talking of Granger—“The dog is a _Whig_: I do not like much to - ſee a Whig in any dreſs; but I hate to ſee a _Whig_ in a parſon’s - gown.”—_Ibid._ p. 312. - -There needed no more; a penſion was immediately hung about his neck, -and the letters L. L. D. ſoon afterwards impreſſed on his rump [13]. -And now who but our Pig? lying in the ſun, cheek by jowl, by the great -miniſterial Hog, routing in the political ſoil, and throwing up daily -the moſt delicious pig-nuts with his ſnout; nor did theſe -diſcoveries reſt wholly in himſelf; for the great Hog would ſometimes -let fall, from behind, certain rich, but often crude and ill-digeſted, -materials, which were taken up in the Weſtphalian mode by our Pig, and -delivered again better concocted to the many-headed beaſt: and hence -we were taught, that Taxation was no Tyranny, and that a good American -war was a very commodious and ſalutary thing. Great applauſe enſued, -but not unattended with envy, there being at the time many ſnarlers who -have ſaid, and now ſay, that it were better if our Pig had been, before -this period, well ſouſed in the pickling tub, and that even the great -miniſterial Hog himſelf had been hung up for bacon. I decide nothing -on theſe brawls; yet, having reſpect to a certain ſuppoſed dignity in -our Pig, it may, perhaps, excite ſome wonder, that he, whoſe politics -were of no older a date than his penſion, and who had hitherto never -routed out of the moral track, ſhould all at once lend himſelf out -in this manner, and make his conſcience reſponſible for meaſures, of -the principles or effects of which he muſt have been ſo incompetent -a judge. But I anſwer in few words, that, like all other -politicians, he had his propenſities; that it was, perhaps, the nature -of the animal, and that mingling his humours and his reaſon together, -there might have been a competent ſincerity in the caſe. But what ſhall -we ſay to the indecency of his turning up the graves of _Pope_ and [14] -_Swift_, (for I ſpeak not now of Milton) and goring them, Tories as -they were, with ſo malicious a tooth? I anſwer, firſt, that they were -not Tories. _Pope_ placed his glory in moderation; and _Swift_ was the -renegade of one party, without being the convert of the other. But it -was not _Whig_ or _Tory_, I believe, which now moved our Pig: there are -other inſtinctive enmities in the world. Theſe men of real genius were -ſatiriſts by profeſſion, and the natural enemies of Pigſ—“_The fewer -ſtill I name_,” ſays Pope, “_I hurt the more_.”—“_Bond is but one, but -Balaam is a ſcore_;” and again, “An hundred ſmart in _Timon and in -Balaam_.” And I believe that our Pig ſmarted in _Bentley_, _Tibbald_, -and poſſibly in many others; the ſtorm had but juſt patted -before him, and he heard the arrowy ſhower ſtill rattle in his ear, and -was conſcious, perhaps, that had he come forth a day ſooner, he would -have been placed in a diſtinguiſhed, but, to him, a very unpleaſant, -niche in the Dunciad of _Pope_, - - “Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, - - “And the ſad burden of ſome merry ſong.” - - [13] Our author daſhes away from thing to thing with very - little method or order. He might, however, have touched on the - occupation of a ſchoolmaſter, ſo honourable for a _pig_; in proof - of which, we could have furniſhed him with the following document: - - “At Edial, near Litchfield, in Staffordſhire, young gentlemen - are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages by Samuel - Johnſon.” - ADVERTISEMENT IN THE GENT. MAG. 1736, p. 428. - - [14] “He ſeemed to me to have an unaccountable prejudice againſt - Swift; for I once took the liberty to aſk him, if Swift had - perſonally offended him; and he told me, he had not.”—Boſwell’s - Tour, p. 38. - -Where he inſults therefore the mighty dead, his rage is at leaſt -natural; and when, to wound _Pope_, he ſuborns the tongue of a [15] -kitchen wench, he preſerves, however, a nice proportion between his -end and his means, doing, with very ſingular propriety, the baſeſt -thing in, what muſt be allowed to be, the loweſt way. But we abſtain, -we affect not gravity, we even forget his almoſt felonious attack upon -Milton, and proceed. We have already noted the facility with which -our learned Pig could ſay _Ay_. It was a great accompliſhment; -but he had alſo his defects. [16] No art, no inſtruction could ever -bring him to make a tolerable bow, or indeed to practice any civil -grimace whatever; and his higheſt approach, in this way, towards -humanity, never went farther than to entitle him, from the moſt -exquiſite judge, to the character of a very _reſpectable Hottentot_: -and hence he became at laſt to be conſidered as a very great [17] -_Bore_; under which diſgrace he retired to a brewery in the -Borough.—Happy retirement! for here he was fed with the freſheſt grains -by the fair hand of a lady, who condeſcended to become the prieſteſs -of our Pig; a lady who had acquired the Greek language without loſing -her own, and whoſe manners and latinity were both equally pure. How -great therefore muſt have been his grief, when he afterwards ſaw -his fair provider melt away into the arms of a ſoft, but doubtleſs -ſinewy Signor, and bathe herſelf, as it is yet her fortune to do, in -the voluptuous warmths of Italy. But her’s, however be the praiſe, -that, compoſed of gentle paſſions, ſhe conſcientiouſly ſacrificed, -at thirty-eight, fortune, freedom, and England, only to legalize her -delights. Never in any future period may ſhe be repentant of her -choice, but always find in the joys of harmony a compenſation for -the decays of love. From the fair hand of this lady our Pig was not -only fed with the fineſt grains, but with the choiceſt green peas alſo, -the earlieſt of the year—delicious food, as he himſelf confeſſes—for a -[18] _Pig_. By her too was prepared for him the moſt inviting draff, -which he ſwilled up at all hours with huge avidity and delight. But the -lady had her humours; ſhe grew tired of one thing, and fond of another; -ſhe ſought, upon preſſing inducements, the great rendezvous of Bath; -and ſo the joys of the brewery had an end. Many were of opinion, (for -who can pleaſe all,) that a certain diſtillery in the neighbourhood -would have been a more apt and proper retreat for our Pig;—but there -were difficulties; I enter not into domeſtic affairs; but whether there -was any whiggiſm, or rivalſhip, or jealouſy, or what elſe in the caſe, -I know not; but certain it is, that Sir Joſeph and he could -never, as they ought, well pig together. During the happy period above -mentioned, it came into the fancy of our Pig to journey into Scotland -in the character of a travelling bear, with a ragged ſtaff in his paws, -and a [19] monkey on his back. When he firſt obtained a penſion, he -had been very affectionately conſidered by the people of that country, -and in a manner naturalized, and become one of them; but he diſcovered -ſoon afterwards, and more particularly on this occaſion, ſo much of the -badger in his diſpoſition, that they found great reaſon to complain of -the ſtrength and harſhneſs of his jaw. On his return he reſorted again -to his beloved brewery, as yet profuſe of grains and draff, where he -grunted forth, as was his cuſtom, many ſtrange and ſingular things, -faithfully now on record, pretending alſo to cure certain mental -diſeaſes by the medicinal qualities of his tongue; but its extreme -roughneſs the ſenſibility of his patients could not bear. Enough has -been ſaid; the reſt ſhall be left to Bozzy. Yet we will add, -that with all his peculiarities, he had virtues and merits enough to -make us heartily wiſh he were ſtill in being:—But, alas, it is paſt, -and he is now cutting up into junks, to be ſold _pro bono publico_ at -nine different ſhops in retail. - - [15] Moſt of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities - was communicated by a female domeſtic of the Earl of Oxford, who - knew him, perhaps, after the middle of life.—Johnſon’s Lives of - the Poets, 8vo. vol. 4, p. 141. - - [16] And yet certain it is that no pains was ſpared for this - purpoſe; for “my mother (ſaid he) was always telling me that - I did not behave myſelf; that I ſhould endeavour to learn - behaviour, and ſuch cant.” Indeed his defect in this particular - could not be overlooked by his moſt partial admirer; for “I - ſuppoſe none (ſays ſhe) who ſaw his odd manner of geſticulation, - much blamed or wondered at the good lady’s ſolicitude concerning - her ſon’s behaviour.”—Piozzi’s Memoirs of Johnſon, p. 24 and 25. - - [17] Cant words are uſually begot in a cellar by _fun_ upon - _folly_: but the word _bore_ and _boar_ has another origin; it - was begot on a ſofa by _Madamoiſelle Ennui_ upon herſelf, and - brought forth into the world in the midſt of the ton. The roar - and fury of the river Severn the people of the country call the - _boar_. A female ſaint was reported miraculouſly to have ſhed - tears: the fact was denied by a Madrid carpenter who had made - the ſaint, “becauſe (ſays he) ſhe is not only compoſed of heart - of oak, but if ſhe had been at all diſpoſed to weep, ſhe muſt - have wept when I _bored_ an aperture with my largeſt augre in - her rump.” And thus teazing and vexation of every kind may be - called a _bore_. A dun is a _bore_, and a ſermon is a _bore_, and - ſo forth; but the greateſt of all poſſible _bores_, in whatever - ſpelling, is a huſband, a _bore_ at night, a _bore_ in the - morning, and, in ſhort, one general univerſal _bore_. Our author - has uſed this faſhionable word with the moſt perfect propriety, - in a ſenſe ſatisfying the very letter, as well as ſpirit of the - word. - - [18] When we went into Wales together, and ſpent ſome time at Sir - Robert Cotton’s at Llewenney, one day at dinner I meant to pleaſe - Mr. Johnſon particularly with a diſh of very young peas.—“Are not - they charming?” ſaid I to him, while he was eating them.—“Perhaps - (ſaid he) they would be ſo—to a Pig.”—Piozzi, p. 63. - - [19] This paſſage ſeems inexplicable. We have had reſort to Bozz, - but in vain: the ſtaff, indeed, he readily acknowledged; but as - to the other aſſociate, or who, or what was meant, neither he nor - we were able to diſcover. - - - - - * * * * * * - - - - -Transcriber's note: - -Footnotes have been renumbered 1–19 and moved from within paragraphs -natural breaks in paragraphs. 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