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Rh z of your burning your own history with a burning glass. I wish Pope or Parnell would put it into rhyme.

Pope and Parnell tell me you design them a visit. When do you go? If you are with them in the middle of the week, I should be glad to meet you there.

The Parnelian who was to have carried this letter, seems to have changed his mind by some sudden turn in his affairs; but I wish his hopes may not be the effect of some accidental thing working upon his spirits, rather than any well grounded project.

You began to distinguish so confounded early, that your acquaintance with distinguished men of all kinds was almost as ancient as mine, I mean Wycherley, Rowe, Prior, Congreve, Addison, Parnell, &c.

Let not the English wits, and particularly my friend Mr. Pope (whom I had the honour to bring up to London from our retreat in the forest of Windsor, to dress à la mode, and introduce at Wills's Coffee House) run down a country as