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Oxford, November 27.
"Mr. Censor,
"I have read your account of Nova Zembla[221] with great pleasure, and have ordered it to be transcribed in a little hand, and inserted in Mr. Tonson's late edition of "Hudibras." I could wish you would furnish us with more notes upon that author, to fill up the place of those dull annotations with which several editions of that book have been encumbered. I would particularly desire of you to give the world the story of Talicotius,[222] who makes a very eminent figure in the first canto, not having been able to meet with any account of the said Talicotius in the writings of any other author. I am (with the most profound respect),
"The most humble of your Admirers,
"Q. Z."
To be answered next Thursday, if nothing more material intervenes.
"Mr. Censor,