As a correspondent was not slow to point out, Goldsmith, if a copyist, at all events considerably improved his model (see in particular lines 7 and 8 of the French). On the 30th of the month the late Sir William Fraser gave it as his opinion, that, until the volume of 1719 should be produced, the ‘very inferior verses quoted’ must be classed with the fabrications of ‘Father Prout,’ and he instanced that very version of the _ Burial of Sir John Moore_ (_Les Funérailles de Beaumanoir_) which has recently (August 1906) been going the round of the papers once again. No Ségur volume of 1719 was, of course, forthcoming. Kenrick, as we have already seen, had in 1767 accused Goldsmith of taking _Edwin and Angelina_ from Percy (p. 206). Thirty years later, the charge of plagiarism was revived in a different way when _Raimond and Angéline_, a French translation of the same poem, appeared, as Goldsmith’s original, in a collection of Essays called _The Quiz_, 1797. It was eventually discovered to be a translation ‘from’ Goldsmith by a French poet named Léonard, who had included it in a volume dated 1792, entitled _Lettres de deux Amans, Habitans de Lyon_ (Prior’s _Life_, 1837, ii. 89–94). It may be added that, according to the _ Biographie Universelle_, 1847, vol. 18 (Art. ‘Goldsmith’), there were then no fewer than at least three French imitations of _The Hermit_ besides Léonard’s. EPILOGUE TO ‘THE GOOD NATUR’D MAN.’ Goldsmith’s comedy of _The Good Natur’d Man_ was produced by Colman, at Covent Garden, on Friday, January 29, 1768. The following note was appended to the Epilogue when printed:—‘The Author, in expectation of an Epilogue from a friend at Oxford, deferred writing one himself till the very last hour. What is here offered, owes all its success to the graceful manner of the Actress who spoke it.’ It was spoken by Mrs. Bulkley, the ‘Miss Richland’ of the piece. In its first form it is to be found in _The Public Advertiser_ for February 3. Two days later the play was published, with the version here followed. As puffing quacks. Goldsmith had devoted a Chinese letter to this subject. See _Citizen of the World_, 1762, ii. 10 (Letter lxv).