OF MY LITERARY: LIPE, 
Then if in thefe days fuch apoftates appear, 
(For fuch, I am told, are found there and here) 
© pardon, dear friend, a well-meaning zeal, 
Too unguardedly telling the fcandal I feel: 
Tt touches not you, let the galled jades winch, 
Sound in morals and doftrine you never will finch. 
O friend of paft youth, let me think of the fable 
Oft told with chafte mirth at your innocent table, 
> When, inftrugtively kind, wifdom’s rules you run o’er, 
ReluGtant I leave you, infatiate for more; ; 
So, bleft be the day that my joys will reftore! 
I am a fincere well-wifher to the pure form of worfhip of the 
church of England, and am highly feandalized if I fee any thing 
wrong in the conduct of our hierarchy. Now and then com- 
plaint has been made againft the unguarded admiffion of per- 
fons of the moft difcordant profeffions into the facred pale, who, 
urged by no other call than that of poverty, do not prove either 
ornamental or ufeful in their new character. To check the pro- 
egrefs of a practice injurious to the church, and highly fo to thofe 
who had fpent their fortune in a courfe of education for the 
due difcharge of their duties, 1 fent a farcaftic, but falutary 
print, into the world: at which even bifhops themfelyes have 
deigned to fmile. 
In the fame year I publifhed my journey into Scotland, and 
my voyage to the Hebrides, in one volume quarto, with xliv 
plates. In this work the beautiful views of the #a/altic Staffa 
appeared. I had the bad fortune to be denied approach to 
that fingular ifand; but, by the liberal communication of Sir 
§ Fyeph 
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