Sir Henry Wottoris Letter. 237 



Friend : To whose good fame though it 

 be needless to add anything, (and my age 

 considered almost hopeless from my pen ;) 

 yet I will endeavour to perform my 

 promise, if it were but even for this 

 cause, that in saying somewhat of the 

 Life of so deserving a man, I may per- 

 chance over-live mine own. 



" That which you add of Doctor King 

 (now made Dean of Rochester, and by 

 that translated into my native soil) is a 

 great spur unto me ; with whom I hope 

 shortly to confer about it in my passage 

 towards Boughton Malherb, (which was my 

 genial Air) and invite him to a friendship 

 with that Family where his Predecessor 

 was familiarly acquainted. I shall write 

 you at large by the next messenger, (being 

 at present a little in Business) and then I 

 shall set down certain general Heads, 

 wherein I desire Information by your 

 loving Diligence ; hoping shortly to enjoy 

 your own ever welcome Company in this 

 approaching time of the Fly and the Cork.. 

 And so I rest 



" Your very hearty poor Friend 

 to serve you, 



"H. WOTTON." 



In another letter Sir Henry tells Walton 

 that since he last saw him he had been. 



