"Contain the juice and marrow of many excellent and learned authors,
but compacted after such an ingenious manner, that the learned would
find it a great difficulty to show in what authors they are to be
found!"
A plan for which, I think, the learned would award him the _birch_. Mrs.
Brett is no less a genius than her husband; and she takes advantage of the
publication of the _Miscellany_, to stick the following little bill upon
the back of the title:
"Ann Brett, wife of the said Peter, at the sign of the _Shroud_ in
Christ Church Lane, opposite to the Church, makes and sells all Sorts
of Shrouds, draws all Sorts of Patterns, does all manner of Pinking,
and teaches Young Misses Reading and Writing, Arithmetic, and Plain
Work. The Dublin Society," she adds, "was pleased to honour her with a
handsome Present for her Curious Performance with the Pen."