better versified

than any of the others; which is odd, if true, as it has cost me less time (though more

hours

at a time) than any attempt I ever made.

Yours ever, B.

P. S.—Do attend to the punctuation: I can't, for I don't know a comma—at least where to place one.

That Tory of a printer has omitted two lines of the opening, and

perhaps more

, which were in the MS. Will you, pray, give him a hint of accuracy? I have reinserted the 2, but they were in the manuscript, I can swear.

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