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In this etching, Dr. Samuel Johnson addresses Mrs Piozzi…

Madam! my Debt to Nature paid
I thought the Grave with hallow'd Shade
Would now protect my Name,
Yet there in vain I seek Repose,
My Friends each a little Fault disclose<
And murder Johnson's Fame;

First Boswell with officious Care
Shew'd me as a Man would shew a Bear
And called himself my Friend.
Sir John {Hawkins} shew'd my hearse
And C... {John Courtenay} pester'd me with verse
You torture without end.

When Streatham spread its pleasant board,
I opened learnng's valued hoard,
And as I feasted, prosed.
Good things I said, good things I eat
I gave you knowledge for your meat,
And thought th' account was closed.

If obligations I still owed,
You sold each item to the crowd,
I suffered by the tale.
For God's sake, Madam, let me rest,
No longer vex your quondam guest:
I'll pay you for your ale.



Johnson’s Ghost by James Sayers

Etching, published 7 April 1788 by Thomas Cornell.


Owner of originalhttp://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw43441/Frontispiece-for-the-2nd-edition-of-Dr-Johnsons-letters?LinkID=mp03573&search=sas&sText=hester+lynch&OConly=true&role=sit&rNo=3
Date7 Apr 1788
Longitude10
File name1788-cartoon-of-hester-thrale.jpg
File Size605.3k
Dimensions1124 x 1600
Linked toHester Lynch SALUSBURY

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