of English wealth, by observing that Latimer, in the time of Edward VI., mentions it, as a proof of his father's prosperity, that, though but a yeoman, he gave his daughters five pounds each for her portion. At the latter end of Elizabeth, seven hundred pounds were such a temptation to courtship, as made all other motives suspected. Congreve makes twelve thousand pounds more than a counterbalance to the affectation of Belinda.-No poet would now fly his favourite character at less than fifty thousand. Notes upon Shakspeare, vol. 1.

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