178 LBTTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



& Mrs Ogle go on to ye North & take Us in their Eeturn, but 

 we may chance to see them there and alter ye Plan, as Mr 

 Young has left Us ; tho' to say ye Truth we had rather have 

 them seperately. Tomorrow I preach at ye Arch Deacon's 

 Visitation at Wakefield ; these are busy Times, but I hope to 

 be the better for them. Mrs Mulso is pretty well, only She has 

 a Tooth ach where She has no Tooth ; her complaints, you know, 

 were always odd, but I must say severe enough. I am glad for 

 you & your Company that you have not such a lousy Pate as 

 her's in Hampshire. What a bold Batchelour are you ! So many 

 Beauties and so many Thousands,* & Integer laudas ? Very 

 fine ! — abominable I mean. As to poor Harry Tinderbox, I pity 

 his Liver. Our Thoughts & Hearts & best Wishes may well 

 turn towards your House, which contains so many that we 

 sincerely love & value. Desire my Brother to use his pen as 

 well as his Pencil, & let us be ye better for it : he has now a 

 short Leizure : But, £ (wypa<pS)v ipiart pretend not to match 

 my Hercules & Dragon — Trita quidem, sed Mea sunt. 



I am, dear Gil, Ever afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 107. 



Wakefield, 



July 28, 1763. 

 Dear Gil: 



Mrs Mulso, myself & little Girl arrived here last Night, 

 accompanying the Bishop & Mrs Thomas thus far on their 

 Northern Journey after a Visit of Twelve days, which they were 

 80 kind as to say had passed away very agreably as far as it 

 was in our Power to make it, but we had constant bad weather 

 the whole Time. Among other Subjects of Discourse, You was 

 One : I showed my Lord your last Letter, from which I imagine 

 that You did not purpose any other good & present Effect should 

 arise, than a general Disposition to serve You at some future 

 happy opportunity. The Bishop, who is on all Sides beset, did 

 not chuse to enter into any Sort of Promise of this kind ; but 

 as I had before returned him my particular Thanks, as well as 



Your's, for his Interposition wth my Ld C , [Chancellor] , 



and as I stood for You, as far as I thought would be serviceable 

 to You, I cannot think you will have ye worse Chance with Him 

 for this Visit. I found him a little inclined to blame you for 

 not having managed your Cards with Ld C better. But 



• Mulso refers to the three handsome daughters of Dr. Battie, a well 

 known London Physician, who were visiting their cousin Mrs. Etty at 

 fielborne Vicarage. 



