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& Eagerness of Spirits which attends every thing to be done, 

 & gives her an Impatience as if She was afraid the least Delay 

 would totally prevent the doing it : Her Cravings for Nourish- 

 ment are sudden & vehement, & if not immediately supplied. 

 She is dejected & hurt. She has undergone Emetics & Blister. 

 She is still in great weakness, but our Faculty say her Cure 

 must be a Work of Time, tho' they do not doubt of it. Her 

 three Lyings-in, in little more than two Years, have undoubtedly 

 been too much for her Strength, & tho' She seem'd to recover 

 well of this last, She is now suffering for it. 



My Sister Chapone, I find, will not be of your Party. She 

 cannot leave London 'till July, if then : & has another Plan of 

 Conveyance : as to your Stay here, I desire it may be as long 

 as it is possible for you to be spared from ye South, Sine Die. 

 I hope your next will give some account of your setting out, 

 & of ye Time that you expect to arrive near Us, that my Horses 

 may attend You ; However if you arrive at Wakefield & do not 

 find them there, it is but six Miles to Us, & a Post Chaise will 

 bring you in less than an Hour, rough as they run. 



I am now in so much Pain wth ye Rheumatism that I write 

 in great Pain ; but I am alive 'till it gets to my Head & then 

 I make a bad figure ; it is pretty near it for it is in my Shoulder. 

 Mrs Mulso's sincere Love & Desiderium wth mine attend you. 

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



J. Mulso. 



Mem : married 9 years yesterday & not repented. Where's 

 my Bacon ? 



Letter 118. 



To the Rev. Mr White Thornhill. 



at Selbourne, near Alton, Hampshire. June 24 — 65. 



Dear Gil : 



I remember you stigmatised one of my Letters that 

 recorded something that did not please you, wth the Title of 

 my croaking left-handed Letter : I beg Leave to return your 

 Compliment. I am beyond Measure vexed that so kind a Dis- 

 position as you shew to make a long & expensive Journey to 

 see Us, should be so often & so provokingly defeated. However 

 I am pretty confident that if poor Ned Acton gets better & can 

 spare his Assistant, or if any Other Hand can be got to be employed 

 in your musical Affair, that you will set off for Thornhill in a 

 Moment, in spite of ye new fronting of your Stables. You build 

 like rich Men, who generally take Care of their Horses Con- 

 veniences before the rest of their Family : Mr Lascelles began 

 in this Neighbourhood Stables, that were the Glory & Envy 

 of this Hobby-horsical Horse Country, & then went upon a 

 House for himself : The whole will be a £100,000 Pds Jobb. 



