I was sure they'd had enough of me, and that the career of Harry Lauder as a comedian was about to come to an inglorious end.

" It had gone to Mrs. Lauder at Dunoon first, and she had sent it on to me.

He says: "It can hardly be doubted, but that Johnson's aversion to Milton's politics was the cause of that alacrity, with which he joined with Lauder in his infamous attack on our great epic poet, and which induced him to assist in that transaction."

These are certifying, that Mr. William Lauder past his course at this university, to the general satisfaction of these masters, under whom he studied.

He was to pay me weel for that, and it seemed no more than fair that he should ha' the valuable words of Harry Lauder to himself, since he was willing to pay for them.

These were the motives that induced Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface; and are not these the motives of a critic and a scholar?