ABSTRACT
This collection of essays was ‘Published for the Benefit of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for Small Debts’. It is sometimes confused with Farrago: or, Miscellanies in Verse and Prose published by Richard Barton in 1739. Taylor, in the Monthly Review for 1794 (n.s. xiii, pp. 414-16), described these essays as being
The rhapsody is largely a cento, or tissue of quotations, from Shakespeare.
