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i6» The ADVENTURES of
joyed at your worfhip’s profperity. ’ “ Q!i tho
devil! (faid 1, interrupting him) Mr. Nunnez,
truee with Signior and Your worlhip: let us banifh
tfoefe terms, and live familiarly together.” “ Thot| j
art in the right, (he replied) I ought not to look |
Vpoo thee otherwife than ufual, although thou art j
become rich. I will confefs my weaknefs : I waj
dazzled when I underftood thy happy fate But!
that prejudice is over, and I now behold thee again i
as my old friend Gil Bias.”
Our converfatioh was interrupted by the arrival i
of four or five clerks. w Gentlemen, (faid I to \
them, prefenting Nunnez) you fitall fup with Sig-1
nior Don Fabricio, who compofes veffes worthy of
king*Nurna, and writes in profe, like a prodigy.” i
Unluckily, J fpoke to people who regarded poetry
fo little, that our author fufFered oh account of j
his profeflion. Scarce would they deign to favour;
him with a look. It was to no purpofe that he
faid witty things, in order to attraft their attention ;
they did not perceive the beauty of his fallies : and,
he was fo much piqued at their want of tafie, that i
he made ufe of his poetical licence, and cunningly t
withdrawing from the company, difappeared. Our
clerks did not perceive his retreat, and fat down 1
to table, without fo much as aiking what was be¬
come of him.
Juft as I had done drefling, next morning, and
was going abroad, the poet of the Afturias entered
my chamber, faying, ” I afk pardon (my friend) i
for having fo abruptly left thy clerks laft night j
but truly, I was fo much out of nay element,
among them, that I could no longer endure my
fituation, A parcej of infolent fellows with their
* The obfcure verfes fung by the Sa'Un piiefls, in
jfcoij: procdiions, were comyofcd byNumav
f#lf.