Part 17 (1/2)

AN ODD PRESENT TO SHENSTONE

An Edinburgh acquaintance is related to have sent to Shenstone, in 1761, as a small stimulus to their friendshi+p, ”a little provision of the best Preston Pans snuff, both toasted and untoasted, in four bottles; with one bottle of Highland Snishon, and four bottles Bonnels Please to let reeable to you, that I ood time”

WALLER, THE COURTIER-POET

Waller wrote a fine panegyric on Cromwell, when he assumed the Protectorshi+p Upon the restoration of Charles, Waller wrote another in praise of hi in person After his Majesty had read the poem, he told Waller that he wrote a better on Cromwell

”Please your Majesty,” said Waller, like a true courtier, ”we poets are always more happy in fiction than in truth”

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