52 LETTEBS TO 6ILBBBT WHITE 



provokingly tender that I cannot bear the least Fatigue, & my 

 Spirits are run down to a Caput mortum which I have in every 

 dull Sense. I have had ye Cold Bath mentioned to Me ; & after 

 farther & proper advice I may very likely take to That, as I think 

 it seems a good natural Medicine. But indeed I dare not venture 

 to Selbourne, I shall prevent all your Pleasure by some Weakness 

 or other ; You know when I was better than I am now, how ill I 

 bore fatigue ; not but that I think that ye Hampshire Journey 

 was of Service to Me. Will not you contrive to let me see you at 

 Sunbury ? Consider you are to enter upon your Confinement of 

 State ; we may be long divided. Will not you accompany Tom 

 back, & let us talk over what You have seen together : You will 

 ride about more wth Tom alone than if I was wth You. Yet I 

 long to see your good Father & Uncle & Family. I have said 

 that if there is a Possibility I will make an Oxford Visit in your 

 Proctorship ; I owe it to our Friendship to help to form your 

 Train ; I forestall my Pleasure & my Pride on that Occasion. 

 There is a Gentleman here who has read your Verses by Heck's 

 Permission, & he desires Leave to take a Copy : He is no Printer 

 or Friend of Printers, so You need not be afraid of being betrayed 

 into Fame agst your Will. Indeed I expect You should send a 

 Liberty of dispersing Copies whereever Miss Heck thinks proper, 

 for so good a Thing ought not to be in one Hand only. Miss 

 Heck is at Peterboro*. I hope You have or will see Her there. 

 She will tell You odd Things of Jenny Warton if You ask Her ; 

 that poor Girl is born to be unfortunate. She has a Warton 

 Genius, totally perverse in worldly affairs. Poor Pressy is gone 

 to Epsom during Tom's Absence, my Girl is at Eickmansworth 

 at her Brother's whither I shall go I beleive next week. Jack 

 Young is returned from Jamaica encumber'd wth laced Cloaths & 

 a Wife, but I am afraid not with Money. Fresh Fuel of Dis- 

 content from which I have seldom seen ye Family free ! I hope 

 to ally it to more amicable Blood. My Uncle has presented to yc 

 disputed Living, or rather ye ArchBp : taking ye Lapse has pre- 

 sented my Uncle's Man ; which tho' it has not determined ye 

 Eight, has added a Weight to my Uncle's Pleas. So that Man is 

 out of my Way. My Church at Sunbury goes on well ; ye wall 

 is risen up to ye first windows ; It will I hope be a neat little 

 Building ; we have found Occasion for all our Eyes over ye 

 Builders, but I hope All will go on very well. You must come 

 & see ye Progress of ye good Work : our Autumns are milder than 

 even Your's at Selbourne, our Eoads are good longer, but I cannot 

 say that our Leaf stays so long ; it is too much scorched in 

 Summer. I have been at Sunning Hill : The way from hence i«^ 

 wild & charming, all thro' ye great Park by the Duke's Lodge, 

 and into ye Heart of the Forest ; Mem : our's are tooody Forests, 

 ike your Holts. You are going to see new Places & make more 



