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numerous, that a deluge of authors cover’d the land:
Whereby not only the peace of the honest unwriting
subject was daily molested, but unmerciful demands were
made of his applause, yea of his money, by such as would
neither earn the one, or deserve the other; At the same
time, the Liberty of the Press was so unlimited, that it
grew dangerous to refuse them either: For they would
forthwith publish slanders unpunish’d, the authors being
anonymous; nay the immediate publishers thereof lay
sculking under the wings of an Act of Parliament,
assuredly intended for better purposes. (112)
Next he turns (p. 50) from the general economic causes
to the private moral motivation of authors inspired by “Dulness
and Poverty; the one born with them, the other contracted by
neglect of their proper talents . . .” In a word, the attack is on