Omniana/Volume 1/Motteux

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3211245Omniana/Volume 1 — Motteux1812Robert Southey

65. Motteux.

Oldmixon says, that one Mr. Heveningham bought a dedication of Motteux, haggled with him about the price, and bargained for the number of lines and the superlatives of eulogy: not contented with this, he wrote the dedication himself, and made the miserable author put his name to it.