em "in mine," no servility is sufficiently humble. He then
with propriety explained the ill consequences which might be expected
from such a letter, which his relations would print in their own
defence, and which would for ever be produced as a full answer to all
that he should allege against them; for he always intended to publish
a minute account of the treatment which he had received. It is to be
remembered, to the honour of the gentleman by whom this letter was drawn
up, that he yielded to Mr. Savage's reasons, and agreed that it ought to
be suppressed.

After many alterations and delays, a subscription was at length raised,
which did not amount to fifty pounds a year, though twenty were paid by
one gentleman; such was the generosity of mankind, that what had been
done by a player without solicitation, could not now be effected by
application and interest; and Savage had a great number to court and to
obey for a pension less than that which Mrs. Oldfield paid him without
exacting any servilities. Mr. Savage, however, was satisfied, and
willing to retire, and was convinced that the allowance, though scanty,
would be more than sufficient for him, being now determined to
commence a rigid economist, and to live according to the exact rules of
frugality; for nothing was in his opinion more contemptible than a man
who, when he knew his income, exceeded it; and yet he confessed that
instances of such folly were too common, and lamented that some men were
not trusted with their own money.

Full of these salutary resolutions, he left London in July, 1739, having
taken leave with great tenderness of his friends, and parted from the
author of this narrative with tears in his eyes. He was furnished with
fifteen guineas, and informed that they would be sufficient, not only
for the expense of his journey, but for his support in Wales for some
time; and that there remained but little more of the first collection.
He promised a strict adherence to his maxims of parsimony, and went away
in the stage-coach; nor did his friends expect to hear from him till he
informed them of his arrival at Swansea. But when they least expected,
arrived a letter dated the fourteenth day after his departure, in which
he sent them word that he was yet upon the road, and without money; and
that he therefore could not proceed without a remittance. They then
sent him the money that was in their hands, with which he was enabled to
reach Bristol, from whenc