little money I am in your debt. I look upon myself to be much more fo, for the "omiffions you have "been pleased to make in thofe Letters in my favour, "and fincerely join with you in the defire, that not "the least traces may remain of that difference be"tween us, which indeed I AM SORRY FOR.' You may therefore believe me, without either ceremony or falfenefs, Sir,

LETTER LXI.

Your, etc..

Dear Sir,

TO HIS FATHER.

THIS is to beg you would enquire of Mrs. Clark, if

fhe will board a family for the fummer in her houfe, and at what rate? Be pleased alfo to ask at the house over against ours, Mr. Gafcoin's fifter, if fhe will board, &c. and how many beds there are to be let there, and the lowest rate? and fend word by the first post you can to me. I am very well, and beg you both to believe me most affectionately,

Your, etc.

I

HAVE recovered the ten guineas at Sir Richard Hoare's. Dr. Arbuthnot fays, fince my mother is better, to cure the bitterness fhe complains of, fhe fhould chew rhubarb and fnake-root, about half a dram each morning, for two or three days, instead of a vomit. But if fhe will venture a vomit, not. Carduus tea can do no harm, even if she should not vomit.

I have fold 500l. at 10cl. which was bad luck, fince it might have been parted with yesterday and to-day at 101l. and a half. I hope foon to fee you, but defire an account how my mother does, and am Your, etc.

LETTER. LXIII.

TO HIS BROTHER.

Dear Brother,

Saturday.

I

HOPE to be with you on Monday next: if you don't fee me that night, I defire you to fend a man

and horse (such a one as I may ride fafely) on Tuef

day

day morning to the Toy by Hampton Court gate by ten o'clock, and I will not fail to wait upon you; which being all the business of this letter, I fhall add no more, than that I am my fifter's and

Yours most affectionately.

LETTER LXIV.

TO HIS SISTER.

Twickenham, Auguft 1.

my

Dear Sifter, HE bufinefs of this is to acquaint you with inTHE tentions of fending for you with the chariot on Thursday or Friday next, in order to get you hither. I have named the latest day that I could poffibly allow you to stay from us, being obliged to lend the chariot upon a journey on Saturday. We will take no denial, and therefore expect no excufe, or anfwer to the contrary, from you. If I hear nothing (as I hope I fhan't) it fhall certainly come one of the days aforefaid: fo pray be in readiness. My hearty love to you both, and my mother's kindest remembrances. I am always, dear sister,

Your, etc.

Y

My fifter and I shall be at home all day; if any

company come that you

don't like, I'll go up

into any room with you: I hope we fhall fee

you,

Yours, etc.

A

LETTER LXVI.

TO MR. GAY.

Dear Mr. Gay,

BOVE all other news, fend us the beft, that of your good health, if you enjoy it; which Mr. Harcourt made us very much fear. If you have any defign either to amend your health, or your life, I know no better expedient than to come hither, where you should not want room though I lay myfelf in a truckle-bed under the Doctor. You might here converse with the old Greeks, be initiated into all their customs, and learn their prayers by heart as we have done: the Doctor, last Sunday, intending to fay Our Father, was got half way in Chryfes' prayer to Apollo, The ill effects of contention and fquabbling, fo lively defcribed

defcribed in the first Iliad, make Dr. Parnelle and my, felf continue in the most exemplary union in every thing. We deserve to be worshipped by all the poor, divided, factious, interested poets of this world.

As we rife in our fpeculations daily, we are grown fo grave, that we have not condefcended to laugh at any of the idle things about us this week: I have contracted a severity of afpect from deep meditation on high fubjects, equal to the formidable front of blackbrowed Jupiter, and become an awful nod as well, when I affent to fome grave and weighty propofition of the Doctor, or inforce a criticism of my own. In a word, Y-g himself has not acquired more tragie majesty in his afpect by reading his own verses, than I by Homer's.

In this state I cannot confent to your publication of that ludicrous trifling burlefque you write about. Dr. Parnelle alfo joins in my opinion, that it will by no means be well to print it.

Pray give (with the utmost fidelity and esteem) my hearty service to the Dean, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Ford, and to Mr. Fortefcue. Let them alfo know at Button's that I am mindful of them. I am, divine Bucoliaft!

THY LOVING COUNTRYMAN.