Excerpt from Some Friends of Mine: A Rally of Men
My Lord; If your mare could speak, she would give you an account of what extraordinary Company she had on the road; which since she cannot do, I will. It was the enterprising Mr. Lintot, the redoubtable rival of Mr. Tonson, who, mounted on a stone-horse, (no disagreeable companion to your Lordship"s Mare,) overtook me in Windsor-Forest. He said, he heard I designed for Oxford, the seat of the Muses, and would, as my Bookseller, by all means, accompany me thither.
I asked him where he got his horse? He answered, he got it of his Publisher: "For that rogue my Printer (said he) disappointed me: I hoped to put him in good humour by a treat at the tavern, of a brown fricassee of Rabbits, which cost two shillings, with two quarts of wine, besides my conversation.
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