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.