10 LIFE OF ATICHBISHOP SANCROFT. 



is not so loud, or troublesome to myself, or 

 others, as it used to be at Lambeth. The las- 

 situde also (whether scorbutical, or moral,) is 

 no matter of complaint ; the first being gone, 

 and the second not yet come ; for (whatever 

 some may think) I shall not easily grow weary 

 of this place, if they will let me be quiet here. 

 If you please to send me a note for a diet drink, 

 as Horace said — quicquid dicam aut erit, aut 

 non, I will not say to you, I'll take it, or not 

 take it ; but I'll consider that I have occasion 

 enough for it, that the season is proper, and the 

 suggestion (as all your's are) very friendly. 

 Buttered coffee I have not used exactly as the 

 good old woman taught it the doctors : but I 

 sometimes eat bread and butter in a morning, 

 and superbibe my second dish of coifee after it ; 

 and wait to see what this, and time, and native 

 air will do in the case. For the new house, 

 you have your wish ; and I see clearly it will 

 not be habitable, till cold winter, which begins 

 to face us already, again turns his back upon 

 us. I am sorry that upon my occasion, you 

 met with the reverse of the jealous man's fate : 

 he seeks what he would not find, and you found 

 what you would not seek. But AUegrameiite ! 

 'tis over now, and could not have been long 

 avoided . The man that escaped from Palsgrave 

 Court, is as glad that he is gone, (though he 



