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APRIL 12, 1718.

His lordship writes to the dean, "that he hopes to see him at Wimple this year; that lord Oxford was well, and talked of going into Herefordshire." He adds, "Your sister is obliged to go to Bath, presents her humble service, and desires you to accept of a little etui. I beg you will not deny me the favour to take the snuffbox, which comes along with it to supply the place of that which was broke by accident some time ago. I am, with true respect, your most humble servant and brother,

HARLEY."

DEAR SIR,

PRETTY kind of amusement I have been engaged in; commas, semicolons, italicks, and capitals, to make nonsense more pompous, and furbelow bad poetry with good printing. My friends' letters, in the mean time, have lain unanswered; and the obligations I have to them, on account of the very book