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I am, this evening, to be at Mr. Lewis's with the Provost, Mr. Ford, Parnell, and Pope.

I remember the first part of the Dragon's verses was complaining of ill usage, and at last he concludes,

Parnell has been thinking of going chaplain to my Lord Clarendon, but they will not say whether he should or not.

I have solicited both Lord Treasurer and Lord Bolingbroke strongly for the Parnelian, and gave them a memorial the other day. Lord Treasurer speaks mightily affectionately of him, which you know is an ill sign in ecclesiastical preferments.

Indeed I wish I had been with you, with Pope, and Parnell, quibus neque animi candidiores, in a little time perhaps I may have leisure to be happy.

I was going to make an epigram upon the