' Tlie bounteous huswife, nature, on eacli bush 

 Lays her full mess before you." 



TIMON OP ATHENS, ACT IV. 



Your letter, my dear Arnold, has been received. 

 It is but two months since you ^\Tote to me of your 

 arrival at your new habitation — the kindness of your 

 reception, the dehghtful situation of the village, and 

 the hospitality of your future parishioners ; but a 

 change seems to have passed over your spirit, to have 

 " overcome " you "like a summer cloud," and has 

 excited, I must confess, my " special wonder." You 

 do not write in that tone which bespeaks a healthy ac- 



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