pebbles--The zephyrs play upon my cheeks--O dolt that I
was to abuse----

PHIL. Hear him, hear him![146]

[Footnote 146: Vide note at p. 37, ante.]

LYSAND. From my heart I pity and forgive you. But only look upon the
bust of DE BURE; and every time that you open his _Bibliographie
Instructive_,[147] confess, with a joyful heart, the obligations you
are under to the author of it. Learn, at the same time, to despise the
petty cavils of the whole Zoilean race; and blush for the Abbe
RIVE,[148] that he could lend his name, and give the weight of his
example, to the propagation of coarse and acrimonious censures.

[Footnote 147: The works of GUILLAUME-FRANCOIS DE BURE
deserve a particular notice. He first published his _Musaeum
Typographicum_, Paris, 1755, 12mo.; of which he printed but
TWELVE copies, and gave away every one of them (including
even his own) to his book-loving friends. It was published
under the name of G.F. Rebude. Peignot is very particular in
his information concerning this rare morceau of
bibliography--see his _Bibliographie Curieuse_, p. 21.
Afterwards appeared the _Bibliographie Instructive_, in
seven volumes, 8vo., 1763-68--succeeded by a small volume of
a catalogue of the anonymous publications, and an essay upon
Bibliography: this 8th volume is absolutely necessary to
render the work complete, although it is frequently missing.
Fifty copies of this work were printed upon LARGE PAPER, of
a quarto size. Its merits are acknowledged by every candid
and experienced critic. In the third place, came forth his
_Catalogue des Livres, &c., de L.J. Gaignat, Paris_, 1769,
8vo., two vols.: not, however, before he had published two
brochures--"_Appel aux Savans_," _&c._, 1763, 8vo.--and
"_Reponse a une Critique de la Bibliographie Instructive_,"
1763, 8vo.--as replies to the tart attacks of the Abbe RIVE.
The Catalogue of Gaignat, and the fairness of his answers to
his adversary's censures, served to place De Bure on the
pinnacle of bibliographical reputation; while Rive was
suffered to fret and fume in unregarded seclusion. He died
in the year 1782, aged 50: and was succeeded in his
bibliographical labours by his cousin WILLIAM; who, with
Mons. Van-Praet, prepared the catalogue of the Duke de la
Valliere's library, in 1783, and published other valuable