Note 339 — No. 107. [Steele.

This passage was censured by Thomas Baker in No. 72 of the Female Tatler (December 21, 1707): "Wisdom, virtue, and laboriousness have always been inseparable from the famous Bickerstaff; but if the characters that have first recommended him to the public, and by which only he was known to the world, are no more to be found in those works that go under his name, the author is dead, and the papers are spurious," &c.