he paid for to you, as he says, and paid me eight guineas of the subscriptions of

Sarah, Countess of Winchelsea.

Mrs. Seymour.

Berkeley Seymour, Esq.

Charles Frotherby, Esq.

Mr. Harcourt and Lord Harcourt have had thirteen books to their house, ten of which were of the

finest paper.

I will observe your directions about Mr. Broome. The second volume of Homer shall be sent in a day or two.

The project for printing the first book of Homer, with Mr. Dryden's, and Mr. Tickel's, and Mr. Manwarring's, together, is well thought of.

posed it to Mr. Tonson, but it will not do. consider further of it.

I pro

I will

The Duke of Ormond is to be impeached for high-treason, and Earl of Stafford for high crimes and misdemeanors.

May success attend your studies, is the hearty prayer of Yours, to command.

LETTER XII.

MR. STEELE TO MR. LINTOT.

MR. LINTOT,

August 4, 1712.

MR. Addison desired me to tell you, that he wholly disapproves the manner of treating Mr. Dennis in a little pamphlet by way of Dr. Norris's

account.* When he thinks fit to take notice of Mr. Dennis's objections to his writings,+ he will do it in a way Mr. Dennis shall have no just reason to complain of. But when the papers abovementioned were offered to be communicated to him, he said he could not, either in honour or conscience, be privy to such a treatment, and was sorry to hear of it. I am your, &c.

LETTER XIII.

MR. FENTON TO MR. LINTOT.

MR. LINTOT,

September 14, 1719.

PRAY give my most humble service to Mr. Pope, and tell him, I beg the favour of him to let me know when he comes to town, what morning I shall wait on him at his lodging; for I walk out in a morning so often, that I may otherwise lose an opportunity of seeing him.

Lib. xxii. ver. 132. The first part of Dacier's note is taken from Eustathius; but instead of Aurelius Victor and Dion, he quotes Herodotus, without mentioning the book he takes it from.

Ver. 467. I cannot find that Eustathius assigns the same reasons that Mm. does, why Apollo and Neptune do not fight with one another.

Your, &c.

* Of the frenzy of Mr. John Den-, written by Mr. Pope. See

his letter to Mr. Addison of July 30, 1714.

+ Remarks upon Cato.

Bowles.

will endeavour to find out the passage abovementioned in Herodotus.

LETTER XIV.

MR. FENTON TO MR. POPE.

I HAVE received a specimen of the extracts from Eustathius but this week. The first gentleman who undertook the affair, grew weary, and now Mr. Thirlby, of Jesus, has recommended another to me with a very great character.* I think, indeed, at first sight, that his performance is commendable enough, and have sent word for him to finish the 17th book, and to send it with his demands for his trouble. He engageth to complete a book every month till Christmas, and the remaining books in a month more, if you require them. The last time I saw Mr. Lintot, he told me that Mr. Broome had offered his service again to you; if you accept it, it would be proper for him to let you know what books he will undertake, that the Cambridge gentleman may proceed to the rest. I am, &c.

I have here inclosed the specimen; if the rest come before the return, I will keep them till I receive your orders. I have desired the gentleman

* Dr. Jortin.-Jortin, who never heartily forgave Pope, has given an account of this transaction. Bowles.

to write the rest in folio, with half the page left

blank.

LETTER XV.

FRAGMENT OF A LETTER FROM MR. EVANS.*

DEAR SIR,

St. John's, Oxon, May 13, 1719. Ir is not that I forget you or disrespect you, but knowing you to be a man of true business I thought it too impertinent to trouble you with any of mine; but now I understand you are at leisure, have at you as far as this half sheet will hold. In the first place I am very well satisfied you have done for me what you are able, and I heartily thank you, and beg your pardon, and very much blush for having given you any trouble of this kind with a sort of men you know as much what to make of as I. I do not know how they are in your church, but in ours, to tell you the truth, all the clergymen I ever yet saw are a sort of ecclesiastical quelques choses, that between common honesty and common sense I know not what to make of. They preach indeed passive obedience, but their practice is active insolence and impudent, injustice; and when the laity use them as they use one another, there will be an end of them. Cætera desunt.

* Dr. Evans of St. John's College, Oxford. See letters to and from the Hon. Robert Digby, Letter I. note.

DEAR SIR,

LETTER XVI.

FROM MR. EVANS.

St. John's, Oxon, July 26, 1719.

I SHOULD much sooner have sent you my acknowledgment and thanks for the very kind reception I met with from you at your pleasant house at Twickenham, but in troth it has been so very hot, that I could neither write, read, nor think, but only lie still, swim, or sleep; and am still so monstrously lazy, that you must expect but a dry short letter from me; no gallantry or gaiety, but only a little downright good breeding and civility. I hope this will find your good mother settled in her health, and also yourself, as much as her age and your constitution will permit. If wishes had any power in medicine, I could soon make you both immortal; for she very well deserves it for furnishing the world with you; and you have yourself made your name immortal enough. I wish only that your body might come in for a small share of that noble blessing, if it were only for nine hundred and ninety-nine years. I wish the same to your good friend the Duchess; that she might live to teach people of quality all the good qualities in the world. I write as I talk, and I speak as I think; and am, with great sincerity, Your, &c.