![]() For me let fame be held in less estimation, and let such talent be the last thing commended in me. I trust that, in these little books of mine, I have observed such self-control, that whoever forms a fair judgment from his own' mind can make no complaint of them, since they indulge their sportive fancies without violating the respect due even to persons of the humblest station a respect which was so far disregarded by the authors of antiquity, that they made free use, not only of real, but of great names.
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