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my first performances in that way you'l think 

 them but so so, but the best of my designs (in my 

 opinion) he has got done by a Chap that has 

 neither attended to drawing or effect, & entirely 

 spoild it, t'is a fishing scene, Mr. Pollard's young 



man is doing one of mine. If it is obliging 



you or any of your employers I should wish to 

 take in Sr. H. Liddle Tour, likewise Mattw. 

 Brown's Bible which you did the Plates for, I 

 suppose t'will be as good a one & as cheap as any 



Published. 1 have 13 Numbers of the Habitable 



world with some .more proofs of the Provs.* &c. 

 ready pack'd up to send you the first oppertunity, 

 on which I shall be happy to hear your opinion & 

 advice the Dr. likes them so well that he has 

 given me orders to do 100 of them but their are 

 some so intellectual that t'wou'd puzzel the Devil's 

 oneself to devise a subject of any kind, such as, 

 to forget a wrong is the best revenge what's bred in 

 the Bone will never come out of the flesh Custom 

 is second nature &c. such mental Ideas will 

 hardly admit of a design unless being farr fetch'd 

 but however I have wrote you the Proverb under 

 the cut on each Proof which is all the subject I 

 have to study from, & then the Dr. Moralizes on 



them. Mr. Pollard begs you may not trouble 



yourselvs about your Copper-plates he pays regu- 

 larly for his twice a year & yours are or will be 



paid accordingly. You did not mention in your 



last whether you had rec' d the tracing Paper, or 



whether or not it was the right sort. 1 was last 



Sunday Introduced by a Friend to see all the 

 Paintings in the Queen's Pallace at Buckingham 



[* I.e. Dr. Trusler's " Proverbs Exemplified," see note to p. 364.] 



