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Rh were clipped of one of its three wings;) and L. 110, to Glory, I wish it were in Glory. L. 118. Does. This word should be avoided, as a mere expletive. L. 155. Does. The same fault. L. 161. The Ingrate. This verse is not right measure, but sounds very ill. L. 201. Cheerful, &c. This verse wants a verb, as are, or some other. 204. Does. L. 217, for pervade it should be pervades. L. 218, and grows, Quere, is not or more proper? L. 278, Cuzzoni fam'd. This is an expletive, not a proper epithet. L. 289, That dares. The word that, as it is placed, spoils the whole line, and is not proper, for the right word should be who. L. 294, Reascend. I know not the reason for this word. Why not rather ascend? I slipped, L. 290, Than, I suppose you only meant then. You will do right to read over your poem carefully, and observe where there be any more oversights of the same kind with those I have noted, and to be corrected; which you can do better than any other person. A friend can only see what is amiss, but the writer can mend it more easily. All you desire in relation to sir W. F. is at an end by his death; otherwise I should gladly have performed it in the best and most effectual manner I was able. As to the publishing it here, I utterly differ from you. No printer in this beggarly town, and enslaved starving kingdom, would print it without being paid his full charge of his labour, nor would be able to sell two dozen unless he could afford it for a penny, I would rather advise you to have it published in London by Motte or Lintot, or any other bookseller there who deals in poetry. It would bear a shilling price; but, as I presume you are not much known as Rh