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Dear Sir

If you are at leisure I will desire you to enquire in any) Bookseller's shop for a Statius and to look in the beginning of the Achilleid for a Birds. nest which if I am not mistaken is very finely) described It comes in I think by way of Simile towards & Beginning of the Book, where the Joct compares Achilles's mother looking after a proper seat to conceal her son to a Bird searching after a sit place for a hest. If you find it and it med or bring it your self and as you acquit. yourself of this you may be troubled with more Poetical Commissions from perhaps

My Hearty / Service to I" Swift,
The read time you come bring a
Coach Eatly, if we may take &

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your most Faithful

Humble Servant

I. Addwon.

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OF

JOSEPH ADDISON,

110-13

INCLUDING

IBRARY

THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS
AND OTHER PIECES NOT FOUND IN ANY PREVIOUS

COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY

ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858,

BY GEO. P. PUTNAM & CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.

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