will put you to the trouble of repassing your patent, or voiding your living.
TO DR. SHERIDAN.
I WROTE to you yesterday, and said as many things as I could then think on, and gave it a boy of Kells who brought me yours. It is strange, that I, and Stella, and Mrs. Mackfadin[1], should light on the same thought to advise you to make a great appearance of temperance while you are abroad. But Mrs. Johnson and I go farther, and say, you must needs observe all grave forms, for the want of which both you and I have suffered. On supposal that you are under the bishop of Cork, I send you a letter enclosed to him, which I desire you will seal. Mrs. Johnson put me in mind to caution you not to drink or pledge any health in his company, for you know his weak side in that matter[2]. I hope Mr. Tickell has not complimented you with what fees are due to him for your patent; I wish you would say to him (if he refuses them) that I told you it was Mr. Addison's maxim to excuse nobody; for here, says he, I may have forty friends, whose fees may be two guineas apiece then I lose eighty guineas, and my friends save but two apiece.
- ↑ Mrs. Mackfadln was mother to Dr. Sheridan's wife.
- ↑ He wrote a pamphlet against drinking to the memory of the dead.
