lver, it is
good to be circumspect in casting for the world; there's a
great many _ropes_ go to ten shillings? If you want a greasy
pair of silk stockings to shew yourself in the court, they are
there to be had too, amongst his moveables."--ED.

[93] This unlucky Venetian velvet coat of Harvey had also produced a
"Quippe for an Vpstart Courtier, or a quaint dispute between
Veluet-breeches and Cloth-breeches," which poor Harvey
declares was "one of the most licentious and intolerable
invectives." This blow had been struck by Greene on the
"Italianated" Courtier.

[94] "Pierce's Supererogation, or a new praise of the Old Asse,"
1593.

[95] Harvey's opponents were much nimbler penmen, and could strike
off these lampoons with all the facility of writers for the
stage. Thus Nash declares, in his "Have with you to Saffron
Walden," that he leaves Lilly, who was also attacked, to
defend himself, because "in as much time as he spends in
taking tobacco one week, he can compile that would make
Gabriell repent himself all his life after."--ED.

[96] He had written an antiquarian work on the descent of Brutus on
our island.--The party also who at the University attacked the
opinions of Aristotle were nicknamed the _Trojans_, as
determined enemies of the _Greeks_.

LITERARY HATRED.

EXHIBITING A CONSPIRACY AGAINST AN AUTHOR.

In the peaceful walks of literature we are startled at discovering
genius with the mind, and, if we conceive the instrument it guides to
be a stiletto, with the hand of an assassin--irascible, vindictive,
armed with indiscriminate satire, never pardoning the merit of rival
genius, but fastening on it throughout life, till, in the moral
retribution of human nature, these very passions, by their ungratified
cravings, have tended to annihilate the being who fostered them. These
passions among literary men are with none more inextinguishable than
among _provincial writers_.--Their bad feelings are concentrated by
their local contraction. The proximity of men of genius seems to
produce a familiarity which excites hatred or contempt; while he who
is afflicted with disordered passions imagines that he is urging his
own claims to genius by denying them to their possessor. A whole life
passed in harassing the industry or the genius which he ha