Note 100 — CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS: (continued 3)
Reading edition
In one of his own publications he quotes, with great self-complacency, the following lines on himself:—
“The wits who drink water and suck sugar-candy, Impute the strong spirit of Kenrick to brandy: They are not so much out; the matter in short is, He sips aqua-vitæ and spits aqua-fortis.”