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least only a tawny devil,) compared with mine ; yet 

 I have been so forgiving as to make a motto for his 

 Paradisus. 



What malice lurks beneath this fair disguise ! 

 The devil again in paradise tells lies ! 

 But now, how plausible soe'er his tale is, 

 We always take his words cum grano salts. 



So, my dear friend, as we are both got to the devil, 

 we can be no worse, and may as well enjoy all that 

 this world still affords us ; which that we may long 

 do is the prayer of your affectionate Friend, 



J. E. Smith. 



From the same. 



My dear Friend, Blackheath, June 2, 180G. 



Your paper was highly approved by everybody. 

 Dryander (no complimenter,) was excited by it to 

 take up the subject afresh ; and he and I went care- 

 fully over your whole paper, turning to references, 

 specimens, &c. I have already received the highest 

 compliment possible from Aiton and Lambert, who, 

 on hearing your paper, conceived that you could 

 scarcely have had knowledge or materials to com- 

 pose it, and that I must have written it ! — See what 

 it is to have a name ! I certainly could not have 

 written it. I have satisfied them with the real truth, 

 and Dryander also. With this view I purposely let 

 him read over your original MS., and see all my 

 scratches and alterations, which being so few, and 

 chiefly about technical matters, could do you no 

 discredit. I wish you, therefore, carefully to pre- 



