'"G. G."
'To G. Gambado, Esq.
'"Sir,—Hearing much of your knowledge in horses, I beg leave to ask your advice in a business where my delicacy, as a gentleman, is deeply concerned, and flatter myself that you will sensibly feel for my situation, my future fortune in life depending on your decision. I have the happiness to be well received by a young lady of fortune in this town, who rides out every morning, and has had the goodness to permit me to join her for some days past. I flatter myself I am beloved, but, sir, the horse I ride is my father's, and he will not allow me to part with him: and this horse, sir, has an infirmity of such an embarrassing nature, that our interviews are unpleasantly interrupted at frequent intervals, and my dear Miss S—— will perhaps ride away with some other gownsman who is more decently mounted.
'"Be pleased, sir, to send me a recipe for this complaint, or I may lose my dear girl for ever. I have tried several experiments, but all in vain, and unless you stand my friend I shall go distracted.
'"I am, dear Sir, in a great fuss, yours most truly,
'"George Gillyflower.
'"St. John's Coll. Cam."
'JUVENUM PULCHERRIMUS ALTER,
ALTERA QUAS ORIENS HABUIT PRÆLATA PUELLIS.'—OVID.
'Note from my Farrier to the above.