No doubt he is a very proper person to record those juvenile virtues and foibles that might escape a natural child,to discern the "Thought, Prudence and admirable Needlecraft" of Miss Betsey Allgood, to speculate upon the literary ancestry of Master Francis Bacon, or to deprecate the failings of that "genteel Child," Miss Fiddle-Faddle, who "at seven Years of Age, could spend a whole Forenoon at her Glass, and devote an Hour to pitching upon the proper Part of her Face to stick that Patch on".
