Note 19 — A. H. BULLEN, B.A.

“Some booksellers this year,” says Nixon, “shall not have cause to boast of their winnings, for that many write that flow with phrases and yet are barren in substance, and such are neither wise nor witty; others are so concise that you need a commentary to understand them, others have good wits but so critical that they arraign other men’s works at the tribunal seat of every censurious Aristarch’s understanding, when their own are sacrificed in Paul’s Churchyard for bringing in the Dutch Courtezan to corrupt English conditions and sent away westward for carping both at court, city, and country. For they are so sudden-witted that a flea can no sooner frisk forth but they must needs comment on her.”