"As to Answers, Banters, True-English Billinsgate, I expect them till
no body will buy, and then the Shop will be shut. Had I wrote it for
the Gain of the Press, I should have been concern’d at its being Printed
again and again, by Pyrates, as they call them, and Paragraph-Men: But
would they but do it Justice, and print it True, according to the Copy,
they are welcome to sell it for a Penny, if they please." - D. Defoe "The True Born Englishman" (1703)
Yes, I was surprised too.
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