CHAPTER VI

----But courage! gentle reader! ----I scorn it----’tis enough to have thee in my power----but to make use of the advantage which the fortune of the pen has now gained over thee, would be too much ----No----! by that all-powerful fire which warms the visionary brain, and lights the spirits through unwordly tracts! ere I would force a helpless creature upon this hard service, and make thee pay, poor soul! for fifty pages, which I have no right to sell thee, ----naked as I am, I would browse upon the mountains, and smile that the north wind brought me neither my tent or my supper.

--So put on, my brave boy! and make the best of thy way to _Boulogne_.

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