He would write street-ballads to save himself from actual starving, sell them for five shillings a-piece, and steal out of the college at night to hear them sung.

Our syntax, therefore, is not to be taught by general rules, but by special precedents; and in examining whether Addison has been with justice accused of a solecism in this passage, The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty curst, And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst.