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Rh love and service to all my Sunday companions at the deanery.

I have no novelties to entertain you with from hence; for here we lead a very retired and perfectly rural life: but when I get to London (which I believe will not be till after Christmas, because as I am within ten or a dozen miles of Bath, I have some thoughts of making a trip thither, and try what good those waters will do me) you may depend upon having an account of what passes in the political and learned world that is posssible for me to come at and convey to you, and I hope to be then honoured with all your commissions and commands in that place; for I wish for nothing more than an opportunity of showing with how much gratitude and true esteem for all your favours, I am, sir, your most obedient and much obliged humble servant, MARMADUKE PHILIPS.

SIR,

OME people here having flattered me that I have a genius for poetry, and my circumstances a little . XVIII.