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Almighty God, Creator and Governor of the World, who sendest sickness and restorest health, enable me to consider, with a just sense of thy mercy, the deliverance which Thou hast lately granted me, and assist by thy Blessing, as is best for me, the means which I shall use for the cure of the disease with which I am now afflicted. Encrease my patience, teach me submission to thy will, and so rule my thoughts and direct my actions, that I may be finally received to everlasting happi ness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 1.

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Aug. 15, 1783. I cut from the vine 41 leaves, which weighed five oz. and a half, and eight scruples: I lay them upon my book-case, to see what weight they will lose by drying 2.

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August 28. I came to Heale without fatigue. 30. I am entertained quite to my mind.

To endeavour to conquer scruples about, Comedy. Books in Garret. Books on Shelves. Hebrew. Pollution. [?] Deus, juva 3.

1 G. Strahan inserts this prayer Court. Three years earlier he had among those of which it is not known written to Mrs. Thrale : * I have in what year they were written. It three bunches of grapes on a vine in belongs to 1783, at a time when John- my garden.' Letters, ii. 193.

son had recovered from the stroke of 3 From the original in the posses- the palsy, and ' was troubled with a sion of Mr. Locker- Lampson of Row- complaint which threatened him with fant. The first two lines of this entry a surgical operation.' Life, iv. 239. are quoted in the Life, iv. 234.

2 Life, iii. 398, n. 3, where by mis- For Johnson's visit to Heale, near take is given the date of Aug. 15, Salisbury, see Life, iv. 234; Letters, 1773. ii. 328.

The vine grew up his house in Bolt For his scruples, see ante, pp. 41,93.

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