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LETTERS TO AND FROM
MORE LINES OF HUMOUR, BY LORD TREASURER.
April 14, 1714.
I HONOUR the men, sir,
Who are ready to answer,
When I ask them to stand by the queen;
In spite of orâtors,
And blood thirsty praters,
Whose hatred I highly esteem.
Let our faith's defender
Keep out every pretender,
And long enjoy her own;
Thus you four, five,
May merrily live,
Till faction is dead as a stone.
FROM THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND.
I SHOULD sooner have thanked you for your letter, but that I hoped to have seen you here by this time. You cannot imagine how much I am grieved, when I find people I wish well to, run counter to their own interest, and give their enemies such advantages, by being so hard upon their friends
- ↑ The duke of Ormond was one of the sixteen brothers; the duchess therefore, calls Swift brother in her lord's right.
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