MY LORD,
Your Lordship's most obedient, and most humble servant,
SAM. JOHNSON.[3]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Lord Orrery, in a letter to Dr. Birch, mentions this as one of the very few inaccuracies in this admirable address, the laurel not being barren in any sense, but bearing fruits and flowers. Boswell's Life, vol. i. p. 160. EDIT. 1804.
[2] Milton.
[3] Written in the year 1747.