[Steele.
From Tuesday, Jan. 31, to Thursday, Feb. 2, 1709-10.
——Veniunt a dote sagittæ.—Juv., Sat. vi. 139.
From my own Apartment, February 1.
This morning I received a letter from a fortune-hunter, which being better in its kind than men of that character usually write, I have thought fit to communicate to the public:
"To Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.
"Sir,
"I take the boldness to recommend to your care the enclosed letter, not knowing how to communicate it but by your means to the agreeable country maid you mention with so much honour in your discourse concerning the lottery.[61]
"I should be ashamed to give you this trouble without offering at some small requital: I shall therefore direct a new pair of globes and a telescope of the best maker, to be left for you at Mr. Morphew's, as a testimony of the great respect with which I am
"Your most humble Servant, &c."