Chapter 14 MODERN FABULISTS DODSLEY, NORTHCOTE.

'A tale may find him who a sermon flies.'

George Herbert.

Robert Dodsley, born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1703, died at Durham, December 25, 1764, buried in the abbey churchyard there, author of 'The Economy of Human Life' and other estimable works, compiled a volume of fables (1761). This was the favourite collection in this country a