tics, too deep and too contemptible for me to trouble myself about them. Mean time you grow negligent, and the improvements at Laracor are forgotten.---I beg you will step there for a day or two, and do* what is neceffary now, before the season is too late, and I will come when this affair is over, and bring down wine (which will not be ready 'till then, for it is but just bottled) and we will be merry at your house and my cottage.

I fent your memorial, drawn up by myfelf, with my opinion upon it, and a letter to Dr. Kearney †, to recommend it to the primate I likewise desired Mr. Morgan to fecond it. I have in vain hitherto fought Dr. Kearney, but fhall find him foon; and I intend to engage Dr. Worth § and

* The word in the original is illegible.

Treasurer of Armagh,

Dr. Lindíay.

An eminent phyfician.

Mr.

Mr. Crofs, and probably all may come to nothing---Sed quid tentare nocebit? The ladies are as ufually---Mrs. Johnfon eats an ounce a week, which frights me from dining with her. My crew has drunk near three. hogfheads fince I came to town, and we must take up with new when I come down. I fuppofe you are in the midft of spleen and justice. I have often an ill head, and am fo fortunate as to pick out rainy days to ride in. What is it to you that old Pooley the painter is dead?

LETTER

LXXXIX.

Dean SWIFT to Mr. WALLIS.

SIR,

Dublin, April 8, 1727.

IAM just going for England*, and

muft defire you to be my proxy at the bifhop's vifitation †. I find there is likewife a triennial vifitation, and think the enclofed may ferve for both, with your wife management. The ladies are with me, being now come to live at the deanry

The dean being on a vifit to Mr. Pope in 1726, haftened back to Ireland on receiving an account that Mrs. Johnfon was dangerously ill; and on her amendment, he returned back to England in 1727, to finith the "mifcellanies," in concert with Pope and Arbuthnot.

"Swift's letters to Sheridan, No. xx and xxiv."

A proxy from the dean, as vicar of Laracor.

for

for this fummer; you have their service, and fo has Mrs. Wallis, as well as mine. I reckon you are now deep in mire and mortar, and are preparing to live feven years hence. I have been plagued with the roguery of my deanry proctor, whom I have difcharged. I believe I am worfe for him 600l. and his brother is not much better. I wish you had been at my elbow to advise me, for you are fitter for the world than I am. I hope to come safe back, and then to have done with England *.

I am ever yours, &c.

J. S.

They had lodgings on Ormond-quay, on the other fide of the river Liffy, and never refided at the deanry but in the dean's abfence; when he returned, they removed, nor were Stella and he ever known to meet but in the prefence of a third perfon.

He had fo; this being his laft vifit. He returned to Ireland, on the news of Stella's laft illness, in September following.

LETTER

XC.

Rev. Mr. PITT to WILLIAMDUNCOMBE, Efq;

SIR,

Pimpern, July 6, 1728.

You

OU defire me to recommend a tutor to your nephew. If he is defigned for a gentleman-commoner, I would recommend him to New-college, (for we

This amiable poet (who was educated at Winchefter-school, and was afterwards fellow of Newcollege, Oxford,) was at this time reator of the parish from whence he dates, near Blandford in Dorfetshire, to which he was prefented by his relation, George Pitt, efq; and which he held during the remainder of his life. His tranflations of the "Po"etics of Vida," and the "Eneid of Virgil," have established his fame, and his "Imitations of "Horace" have been thought, by many good judges, not inferior to Pope's. A volume of his "mifcellaneous poems" was published in 1727. He died in 1748. On his tomb-ftone were engraved thefe words:

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"He lived innocent, and died beloved.

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