[206] Ovid, "Met." i. 746.
[No. 255. [Addison.]
From Thursday, Nov. 23, to Saturday, Nov. 25, 1710.
----Nec te tua plurima, Panthu,
Labentem pietas, nec Apollinis infula texit.
Virg., Æn. ii. 429.
From my own Apartment, Nov. 24.
"To the Censor of Great Britain.
"Sir,
"I am at present under very great difficulties, which it is not in the power of any one, besides yourself, to redress. Whether or no you shall think it a proper case to come before your Court of Honour, I cannot tell; but thus it is: I am chaplain to an honourable family, very regular at the hours of devotion, and I hope of an unblamable life; but for not offering to rise at a second course, I found my patron and his lady very sullen and out of humour, though at first I did not know the reason of it. At length, when I happened to help myself to a jelly, the lady of the house, otherwise a devout woman, told me, that it did not become a man of my cloth to delight in such frivolous food: but as I still continued to sit out the last course, I was yesterday informed by the butler, that his lordship had no further occasion for my service. All which is humbly submitted to your consideration by,