LETTER 259
Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq
LETTER 259Visible text2 paragraphs
Thursday, June 15
Let me alone, you great dog, you! -- let me alone! -- have I heard a lesser boy, his coward arms held over his head and face, say to a bigger, who was pommeling him, for having run away with his apple, his orange, or his gingerbread.
Let me alone, you great dog, you! -- let me alone! -- have I heard a lesser boy, his coward arms held over his head and face, say to a bigger, who was pommeling him, for having run away with his apple, his orange, or his gingerbread.
So say I to thee, on occasion of thy severity to thy poor friend, who, as thou ownest, has furnished thee (ungenerous as thou art! ) with the weapons thou brandishest so fearfully against him.