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receiving any Answer to his letters Sent to Ballasore.

I am Sony to hear you are Soe troubled with [ring]-worms, and having got some- thing of Nilcund propper for them, Being very sencible how welcome a Cure (as I hope this will prove) is to the Diseased, I have sent this Cosset on purpose with it, which though I had not your order for, yet I hope I have not Contraried your expectation, his {hi]re being [?] r[up]ees. Enclosed have Sent a Direction how to take it, and Per the Next Conveighance Shall remit you purges "which Xilcund saes will be very Convenient After the taking this, he promising to get them ready in five dayes more.

The Measure of the hat have lost. Per the next pray Send Another, And when I goe to Ballasore shall provide sufficient -oJ knives, Combs, etca for your and my Self.

The lime Water is Making but am un- furnisJTied] of a quarter Cask, but have got a mum* Cask which I intend to fill with lime juice, which will produce about A quarter Cask of Good clear water. If Mr March has any Cask pray advise him, if he be not come away, that I know Not where to procure any here.

What goodes are Most Requirable at Ballasore as ye[t] I know Xot, having had little Correspondence with any there, Soe Cannot Advise.

The 4 Pr of slippers I Received, being Yerv fit, and have given you Credit for thm, and Returne you many thanks for your trouble in their procury.

Mr Bullivant hath been extraordinary ill and as mad as a man Could well bee, it foeing as much as 4 or 5 of us could doe to hold him, tearing all the clothes of his own and our Backs, and at last was forced to Chaine him by the leg in his Chamber. At present he has pretty well recovered] his senses, but is in a pittifull Condition, being soe Sore all over his body with a kind of Boyles that he is scarce able to goe. I sup- pose the Chief Cause of his Madness pro- ceeded f[rom] Mellancholly, having instead of encouragem[en]t Received [a] Check iro[m] his Relations [in] England, being ^augmented by Damage from a wo [man I] believe, which is evident enough, but had rather Smot[her] than Divulge any Such thing publiquely.

Yesterday Received yours of the 5th,f and have Per this Conveighance Sent the key of the escritore which was forgot, and

t This letter has not been traced.
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should have Writt to Mr March, but suppose* be Coming Downe by this time. Haveing little more to add, Save with the tender of my Kind Love to your Self, wishing your health and as much happiness as my Self,

I Conclude and Remaine Your Reall and affect ionately Loving Friend

JNO: VICKEBS

[Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant

In Cassumbazar

R. C. TEMPLE. (To be continued.)

EPIGRAM ON BEAU NASH.

The Picture plac'd the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength,

Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.

THESE last four of the twenty-four lines which were printed at p. 175 ante formed the subject of notes in 5 S. x. 429 ; xi. 12, 71, 357 ; 9 S. xii. 116, 273, 335, 392, 493 ; 10 S. i. 32, 96 ; 12 S. iii. 68, 119, 173 ; and the claim to authorship has been (as was tersely put at 9 S. xii. 493) " Did Lord Chesterfield borrow from Jane Brereton, or Jane Brereton from Lord Chesterfield ? " I am, however, able, quite by accident, to give a reference to an earlier appearance of the twenty-four lines than their inclusion on pp. 121-2 of " Poems on Several Occa- sions : by Mrs. Jane Brereton. With Let- ters to her Friends, and an Account of her Life. London. Printed by Edw. Cave at St. John's Gate, 1744," under the heading ' On Mr. Nash's Picture at full Length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.'

In the British Museum Library is a small volume, probably issued as a pamphlet of twenty-four pages, including list of some hundred and sixty subscribers, " Poems upon Various Subjects, by Henry Norris, Comedian. (Price One Shilling.) Hull : Printed by J. Rawson. 1740." P. 20 mainly consists of what are, with a very few verbal differences so slight as to be negligible, the twenty-four lines in question, headed, ' Upon Mr. N h's Picture plac'd between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope, in Wiltshire's Room in Bath.

'The Thespian Dictionary' (1802) says that Henry Norris (the younger) was an


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