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DOCTOR,

HOPE your servant has told you, I sent to beg the favour of you to come hither to night; but since you could not conveniently, I hope you will not deny me the satisfaction of seeing you to morrow morning. My lord joins with me in that request, and will see no company but you. I hope you will come before ten o'clock, because he is to go at that hour to Windsor. I beg your pardon for sending so early as I have ordered them to carry this; but the fear of your being gone abroad, if they went later, occasioned that trouble given you by, sir, your most sincere

M. ORMOND.

MY LORD,

OUR lordship is the person in the world to whom every body ought to be silent upon such an occasion as