your mind. The ftables are fitted as you gentlemen ordered them to be, and all the painting will be done to-morrow or Thursday, with whenfcoating in the quickest manner and beft; and if you can stay till Saturday let me know your pleasure about the beds and bedsteads, for them I cannot provide. You may have 6, of which two are to have courtins, for 10 pounds a year: and am, giving my moft humble respects to my Lady Mery Whortly,

for

Your, etc.

I thought one might have fuch beds and bedsteads 4 or 5 pounds a-year; and which I would have done if no rates prop.

LETTER LXXII.

MR. JERVAS TO MR. POPE.

Dear Mr. Pope,

August 12, 1715, London.

I

WOULD not have failed by Tuesday's poft, but that the Doctor could not be near pofitive as to the time, but yesterday we met on horfeback and took two or three turns near the camp, partly to fee my new horfe's going, and partly to name fomething like the day of fetting forth, and the manner thereof

Jervas is the best Letter-writer of all the Set.

viz.

viz. that on Thursday next (God willing) Doctor AD. Disney, and C. Jervas, rendezvous at Hyde-Park-corner about noon, and proceed to Mr. Hill's, at Eggam, to lodge there on Friday, to meet with Mr. Pope upon the road to proceed together to Lord Stowell's, and there alfo to lodge. The next day, Saturday, to Sir William Wyndham's, and to reft there the Lord's Day. On Monday, forward again towards Bath, or Wilton, or as we fhall then agree. The Doctor proposes that himself or his man ride my spare horse, and that I leave all equipage to be fent to Bath by the carrier with your portman. teau. The Doctor fays he will allow none of his friends fo much as a night-gown or flippers for the road, fo a fhirt and cravat in your pocket is all you must think of in his new scheme. His fervant may be bribed to make room for that. You fhall have a fhorter and lefs bridle fent down on Saturday, and the other shall be returned in due time. The taylor fhall be chastised if 'tis really negligence in his art, but if 'tis only vapours, you must beg pardon. The linnen and stockings out of your portmanteau may go with the bridle. I forgot to tell you that the third day is to be Oxford University, and the Monday following to Sir W. Wyndham's.

The French king has been indifpofed, and methinks he is in an ill way, &c.-Service to every body.

Your, etc.

LETTER LXXIII.

FROM THE SAME.

Dear Mr. P.

Tuesday 2. THOUGH HOUGH I have not a fyllable to say of more certainty than the laft poft, yet I write.—I hold myfelf in readiness, in spite of a demand for pictures.

The Counsellor Bick has purchased a nag for his equipage, and waits our motions. He was here yesterday, and to-morrow, Wensday evening, we are to tafte Devonshire cyder with Mr. Appleftone at his lodgings.

The Court opiniate it that the P- is coming.They have no account of Ormond's arrival in France, though they have certain intelligence that he went off at Shorehamn, in Suffex, ten days ago. I defign to know Arbuthnot's determination to-morrow.-Service to every body.

I am, etc.

*The Pretender.

LETTER LXXIV.

FROM THE SAME.

Wenfday, 11 o'clock at Noon.

LADY Mary Wy ordered me by an express this Wenfday morning, fedente Gayo et ridente Fortefcuvio, to fend you a letter, or some other proper notice, to come to her on Thursday, about five o'clock, which I fuppofe fhe meant in the evening. Gay defigned to have been with you to-day, and I would have had him delivered this welcome meffage, but he durft not venture to answer for your coming upon his affeverations, you having interchangeably fo accustomed yourselves to lying, that you cannot believe one another, though upon never fo ferious an occafion. He will be ready to go back with you. Fortefcue's fervice and mine to all. We are

Yours, etc.

* It appears from this Letter, that Pope wished to be thought a particular favourite with Lady Wortley. That he prefumed too far, and was repulsed, I think there is reafon to believe; and that this was the cause of his lasting hate.

LETTER LXXV.

FROM THE SAME.

I

Dear Mr. Pope,

INTENDED to have breakfasted with James Ecker. fall at Drayton, but heard by the way of his being in London, fo I jogg'd to Hammerfmith in 5 hours and a half without drawing bit. Yesterday I gave a printed propofal to Lord Halifax, and spoke to the Duke of Devonshire to join my Lord Wharton's interest, and move your affair, that we may set 'em a going about the counties.

I have not yet feen the dear Archdeacon *, who is at his old lodgings in St. James's place, nor the Dean; but have just read a thing intitled a Prefatory Epiftle, concerning fome remarks to be published on Homer's Iliad, occafioned by the propofals of Mr. Pope towards a new English Version of that poem-To the Rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's-by Richd. Fiddes, B. D. Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford.-'Aμapтnu' Eyevés-Long.-To Mr. Pope Αμαρτημ from the author, in manufcript.-All the foregoing elegances at proper distances, and Italianized according to form. It came too late for the coach, and is too big for my privileges of frank-Svo. 120 pagesmarbled paper.

I find

*` Parnell,