, you will probably conceive my muse to be
vastly prolific
; her inserted production was brought forth a few years ago, and found by accident on Thursday among some old papers. I have recopied it, and, adding the proper date, request that it may be printed with the rest of the family. I thought your sentiments on the last bantling would coincide with mine, but it was impossible to give it any other garb, being founded on
facts
. My stay at Worthing will not exceed three weeks, and you may
possibly
behold me again at Southwell the middle of September.
Will you desire Ridge to suspend the printing of my poems till he hears further from me, as I have determined to give them a new form entirely? This prohibition does not extend to the two last pieces I have sent with my letters to you. You will excuse the
dull vanity
of this epistle, as my brain is a