Note 42 — POLITICAL ESSAYS, WITH SKETCHES OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS (continued 6)

We never knew but one instance to contradict this opinion. A person who had only fourpence left in the world, which his wife had put by to pay for the baking of some meat and a pudding, went and laid it out in purchasing a new string for a guitar. Some on this occasion quoted the lines,

‘And ever against eating cares,

Wrap me in soft Lydian airs.’