Grief.

My Mother (whose diabolical Temper you well know) has taken it into her

Sagacious

Head to quarrel with me her

dutiful Son.

She has such a Devil of a Disposition, that she cannot be quiet, though there are fourscore miles between us, which I wish were lengthened to 400. The Cause too frivolous to require taking up your time to read or mine to write. At last in answer to a

Furious Epistle

I returned a

Sarcastick

Answer, which so incensed the