text:  Let him once make a _hit _ as it is termed and it is no longer hit or miss with him: he getteth a reputation and he lieth in bed all day: he shaketh the alphabet in a bag calling it his last new work and it goeth through three editions in as many days: he lordeth it over "the trade " and will let nobody have any profit but himself: he turneth up his nose at the man who invites him to a plain dinner and utterly refuseth evening parties: he holdeth _conversaziones_ where he talks you dead: he driveth a chay taketh a whole house sporteth a wife and a minute tiger: in brief he is now an aristocrat of letters