Robert Burness.

P.S. My meal is nearly out, but I am going to borrow till I get more.

FOOTNOTES:

[141] Pope. Essay on Man

II.

TO MR. JOHN MURDOCH,

SCHOOLMASTER,

STABLES-INN BUILDINGS, LONDON.

[John Murdoch, one of the poet’s early teachers, removed from the west of Scotland to London, where he lived to a good old age, and loved to talk of the pious William Burness and his eminent son.]

Lochlea, 15th January, 1783.