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24 two other cathedrals with whose customs you may be acquainted.

Pray, my lord, pardon this idle request from one that loves and esteems you, as you know I do. I once thought it would never be my misfortune to entertain you at so scurvy a rate, at least not at so great a distance, or with so much constraint:

"Sis felix, nostrumque leves [I do not like quicunque ] laborem: Et quo sub cœlo tandem, quibus orbis in oris Jactemur, doceas ."

The greatest felicity I now have is, that I am utterly ignorant of the most publick events that happen in the world:

I am with the greatest respect and truth, my lord, your lordship's most dutiful and most humble servant,

J. SWIFT. TO