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18 Congratulating a Perſon upon lis. Marriage.

Sir,

THE news I received of the happy change of you condition, did not a little revive me from the melancholy that is too much accuſtomed to oppreſ my ſpirit eſpecially upon the knowledge of th happy election you have made of one whoſe diſcretion, parentage and good education, muſt e ſuitable to your humour in which ſatisfaction, as true friend, I am not wanting to participate in civility, being very much pleaſed that you have to divided the power which you had contained over m afflictions, honduring your ſecond felt, with than quality of reſpect that was heretofore entirety you own: for certain it is that your good and ſo tunes ſtand with me in an equal balance; in which as a true friend, actually or reciprocally, I muſt intereſt myſelf, being perſuaded you will make it more doubt of it, than of the paſſion I have ſerve you in the quality of,

SIR,

Yours and your Lady's

very humble Servart,

PART III

ON BUSINESS AND THE DEATH OF RELATIVES

From a Country Chapman beginning Trade, to a C Dealer, offiring his Correſpondence

Sir.

ΤHE time of my apprenticeſhip with Mr Walk of this town being expired I am juſt going begin for myſelf in Proſion, having taken a th there for that purpoſe And as I know the ſatis