" and "mourn" are lawful rhymes in Pope's
Death of the Unfortunate Lady
.—Gray has "forlorn" and "mourn"—and "torn" and "mourn" are in Smollett's famous
Tears of Scotland
.
As there will probably be an outcry amongst the rejected, I hope the Committee will testify (if it be needful) that I sent in nothing to the congress whatever, with or without a name, as your Lordship well knows. All I have to do with it is with and through you; and though I, of course, wish to satisfy the audience, I do assure you my first object is to comply with your request, and in so doing to show the sense I have of the many obligations you have conferred upon me.
Yours ever,
B.