2C6 IIENKY KIRKE WHITB's KEMAINS, 



steps, according to the regular progress of the strophe, 

 antistrophe, and epode. You and I will be very fashion- 

 able men after the manner of the Greeks : we will insti- 

 tute an orchestra for the exercise of the ars saltandi. 

 and will recline at our meals on the legitimate Triclinium 

 of the ancients — only banish all modern beaux and belles, 

 to whom I am a professed and declared enemy. 

 So much for flippancy — 



Valo! S.R.Y.B.E.E.Q.V. 



H. K. White. 



TO MR SERGEANT R0UC4II. 



Brigg, near "Wiuteringham, July 1S05. 

 My dear Sir, 



I have just missed you at Lincoln, where I had some 

 expectations of seeing you, and had not circumstances 

 prevented, I had certainly waited there till to-morrow 

 morning for that purpose. This letter, which I wrote at 

 Brigg, I shall convey to you at Kirton, by some person 

 going to the session ; many of whom, I have no doubt, 

 are to be found in this litigious little town. 



Your misdirected epistle, to my great sorrow, never 

 reached my hands. As I was very anxious to get it, I 

 made many inquiries at the post-offices round ; but they 

 were all in vain. I consider this as a real loss, and I 

 hope you will regard me as still under the pressure of 

 vexation, until I receive some substitute from your hands. 



Had I any certain expectation of hearing you address 

 the Court, or Jury sivjrn, at Kirton, no circumstances 

 should prevent me from being present ; so do I long to 

 mark the dawnings of that eloquence which will one day 

 ring through every court in the Midland Circuit. I 



think the noise of , the overbearing petulance of 



, and the decent assurance of , will readily 



yield to that pur.e, chaste, and manly eloquence, which, 

 I have no doubt, you chieily cultivate. It seems to me, 



