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Grosvenor I have cut my finger in mending this blackguard pen.
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how this exordium may amuse you I know not but I hope I shall never make another like it. I have to abuse you for sending your last to Oxford when you received mine dated from hence, & likewise to apologize for no answering sooner. variety of engagements I cannot plead but must alledge particular ones.
you say her husbands name will please me. in sober sadness no.
Integer laude — fuge suspicari.s upon one armed either with Philosophy or with
Love. I forget the old sage whom Lais could not tempt, but I believe the
story.t Peter
You have of course seen Wynn. I was much with him last term & witnessd some actions
which would have raised him in my esteem had that been possible. an old Welshman
who had formerly kept a school & lived in affluence & whose
productions shewed that he possessd ability & knowledge above
mediocrity, was travelling homewards with his wife. at Oxford she was taken ill
& they were both old friendless & penniless. Wynn supported them there. paid the
apothecary to attend Mrs Denhamthem
it.
I wish Grosvenor you would visit Oxford very soon & meet Lovell there. we have determined
upon publishing Valentine & Orson at Oxford & he will be with me
a week shortly. can you not come then and at the commemoration? remember you
have promised me an annual visit & recollect that I should like a
monthly weekly & daily one better. or rather one visit to last all the
year round. am I ever to see Horace there? if it be but out of compassion to me send him to Balliol. for Seward is gone! & Lightfoot soon goes — then will
I hang my harp on the wash hand basons stand & sit down by the waters of
the pot of abomination. poor Lightfoot! he is now with Seward in Worcestershire but Lightfoot lost his place tho he
got up at four o clock & put on his new leather
breeches & boots. & then Lightfoot went to bed again in
his new leather breeches & boots. &
surprized Burnet & me at
breakfast by his unexpected appearance. oh had you but seen Lightfoot in the affair of the
Imposition when he had 42 pages of Ralph Churton
Have you seen the Children in the Woodmortuum & damnatum esse doctorum hodie
omnium universitatum magis quam Christum!!
I have ventured upon the drama at last. & chosen for my
subject that memorable passage in Tacitus which struck me so powerfully on the
first perusal & which I pointed out to you at Brixton. possibly you may
have forgotten it. if so turn to the fourteenth annal & read the murder
of Pedanius Secundus & the execution of four hundred slaves.
remember me to Mr & Mrs Deacon. I
thought I saw Mr D in Bristol but was mistaken. how is your fathers gout?
the ligament which suspends my liver is undergoing an unpleasant extension owing to the vacuity of my intestines. the gastric juice is devouring my stomach for want of other food. Grosvenor I am ravenous. but dinner is not yet ready & I have about time to give you some rhyme in the fag end of the sheet. I shall soon write to Horace.
To a College Cat
—— (how Strachey would like the subject
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Orson.
when Lightfoot told Thomas
Howe
x that Powell courted Miss Hornsby,