JAMES LACKINGTON,

The prefent Bookfeller in Chifwell-ftreet, Moorfields, London.

Written by Himself.

In a Series of LETTERS to a Friend.

With a TRIPLE DEDICATION.

1. To The PUBLIC.

2. TO RESPECTABLE

BOOKSELLERS.

3. TO SORDID

"Honour and fhame from no condition rife;
"A&t well your part, there all the honour lies.
"Fortune in men has fome fmall difference made,
"One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade;
"The cobler apron'd and he parfon gown'd,
"The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
"What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?
"I'll tell you, friend-a wie man and a fool.
"You'll find if once the monarch acts the monk,
"Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk;
"Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow :
"The reft is all but leather or prunella."

Pope.

"Let high birth triumph! what can be more great?
"Nothing- -but merit in a low eftate.

fuch the vanity of great and small,
"Contempt goes round, and all men laugh at all."

Young.

LONDON:

Printed for and fold by the AUTHOR, No. 46 and 47, Chif-
well-Street; W. Bulgin, Briftol; and all other Book fellers.

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