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her Pipe is quite stopp'd you may command it. Her Fate seems 

 to promise to be quite the Reverse of Miss Eccho's. I assure 

 You my Girl begins to plump up a little. Pressy is a crock still. 

 Ned sets Country Dances & Songs ; & what is worse, writes 

 them. Tom writes too but deals in Solids ; I always thought 

 Tom a good Prose Writer. 



Jo "Warton I see, is coming forth in a work which has a Plan ; 

 it is indeed only in ye character of a Translator,* but Mr. Pope 

 has made that Character of a little more Dignity than it used to 

 be. I hear that Dick Phelps is become Tutor to the Marquis of 

 of Worcester. I met Thomkins the other day with his two young 

 Lords. I think of what You once quoted 



Dulcis inexpertis Cultura potentis Amici. 



Perhaps I never thought so much of it. I hear of two Trajedies 

 Bonduca & the Gamester ; which is Dr Young's I don't know. 

 Mr. Richardson has heard ye last & admires it. I have lost my 

 Harlequin-Parishioner Woodward, but he went olf in a grand 

 Scene. The sunny-featured Mrs Hayes has left Us. 



I have no more Room, than to desire my Respects to ye 

 Provost & Dr Bentham <fe all who enquire after me & to subscribe 

 Myself 



Your's Afiftely 



J. MULSO. 



Letter 36. 



Sunbury. 



March 11, 1753. 

 Dear Gil : 



By this Time You have seen the Circuiteers, & perhaps 

 they have found You some Employment in keeping the Bucks 

 of the University in Order. You hav-j dined I suppose wth 

 my Lords the Judges, & congratulated them on having fine 

 weather on their Circuit ; You have lorded it over the sweating 

 Disputants of Ash Wednesday, & are full of the choice Turns & 

 descriptive Epigrams of Christchurch. In short You have shewn 

 your Sleeves in their great Majesty, & are now surfeited with 

 Honour. With what Pleasure shall I receive my old Friend, 

 when just freed from the Confinement & Form which Greatness 

 demands ? I reckon You will exult & wanton in your Liberty 

 wth that Glee which we used to go down to Merton Walks to 

 observe in the Horses which were ^turned out to their Spring 

 Grass. 



* Joseph Warton translated the Eclogues and Georgics for an Edition of 

 Virgil which he had recently published. 



