Excerpt from Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. 1
But, supposing it true, - and the joke is quite had enough to be authentic, - we must put in our plea that it is not to appl to us. The fact is absoluw undeniable that we originally vertised ourselves, or rather our work, as the wits'miscellan - thereby indicating, beyond all doubt, that we of the is cellany were ta. It is our firm hope that the public, which is in general a most tender-hearted individual, will not give us a rebuff similar to that which the unnamed young gentleman experienced at the hands, or the tongue, of the implacable Dean of St. Patrick.
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