 well supported by  � ! and, then, proceeding to the third Page, this, says he, must have been stollen from one of the Ancients, because there is no modern who could write like it. Well, Sir, you need not give yourself further Trouble, for the present. I will print this first Paper at my own Suit. Desire your Friend to be careful about the Second. Call to me, in a Week, and, I think I shall be able to tell you something that will please you.
How diligent is Expectation, how elevated is Hope! I returned with the Feathers of
Mercury
at my Heels. I set about my second Paper, with double Genius and Application. My Ideas were more expanded, my Spirits more sublimed. All the Persuasives of
Cicero;
all the Thunder of
Demosthenes;
all that I had read, on the Topic of Liberty, in popular Governments, or Common-wealths, occurred to my Remembrance.
I finished my second Essay, within the Week. I went with it to
Wellcot,
and he presented me, at Sight, with twenty Guineas. It is more, said he, than hitherto comes to your Share; but, I love to encourage, and I trust that, in the Run, I shall not be a Loser. I sell this Pamphlet for two Pence. Nearly two Fourths thereof go to Printing, Paper,
&c.
another Fourth I reserve, as an Equivalent for my Application and Knowledge in this Way; and, the Remainder is a Redundance which, on extraordinary Tides, ought to flow to the Writer. The Demand, for this Paper, has been very uncommon; and, by what I can judge, the Sale may, in Time, amount to twelve Thousand. You need not, Sir, be ashamed to acknowledge yourself the Author. Preserve but a Moiety of the Spirit, of this
Elijah,
with which you have set out, and my own Interests will instruct me to serve you effectually.
I now returned, as in a triumphal Chariot. I never, before, received the Prize, as I may say, of personal Prowess. The Fortune of my Father, the Fortune of all Men living, who were merely born to Fortune, diminished beneath me. O, how sweet, said I, to myself, how delicious are the Fruits of a Man's own Plantation! Then, like the sagacious and independent Spider, his Labours will be crowned, with personal Honour and Success, while he spins his Subsistance from his proper Bowels. It is then, and then only
