I have only time to add that I am in great haste.
Yours truly,
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P.S.—If you do not receive this, of course it must have miscarried, therefore I beg you will write to let me know.
DCLI.—IMPROMPTU.
(Spoken between the Third and Fourth Acts of Cowley's Tragedy "The Fall of Sparta.")
So great thy art, that while we viewed,
Of Sparta's sons the lot severe,
We caught the Spartan fortitude,
And saw their woes without a tear!
DCLII.—WILKES AND A LIBERTY.
So ungrateful was the sound of "Wilkes and No. 45" (the famous number of the "North Briton") to George III., that about 1772, George IV., then a mere boy, having been chid for some fault, and wishing to take his boyish revenge, stole to the king's apartment, and shouting at the door, "Wilkes and No. 45 for ever!" ran away.
DCLIII.—A STRANGE OBJECTION.
A great drinker being at table, they offered him grapes at dessert. "Thank you!" said he, pushing back the plate, "I don't take my wine in pills!"