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This custom was not thought to detract from the writer's independence, inasmuch as each had his own domain, and borrowed only where he would be equally ready to give. It was otherwise with those thriftless bards so roughly dealt with by Horace in his nineteenth Epistle "O imitatores, servum pecus! ut mihi saepe Bilem, saepe iocum movistis." the Baviad and Maeviad of the Roman poet-world.
But their censures sometimes make me smile, sometimes, for I am very infirm, make me angry: sæpe bilem, sæpe jocum movent. It gives me pain to differ on this occasion from many, if not most, of those whom I honor and esteem.