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wish I had your assistance to go through with it; for I can assure you, it rises to a very solemn piece of burlesque.

As to the condition of your little club, it is not quite so desperate as you might imagine; for Mr. Pope is as high in favour, as I am afraid the rest are out of it. The king, upon the perusal of the last edition of his Dunciad, declared he was a very honest man. I did not know till this moment that I had so good an opportunity to send you a letter; and now I know it, I am called away, and am obliged to end with my best wishes and respects, being most sincerely yours, &c.

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FROM LADY JOHNSON^[1].

[MARCH 30, 1729.]

TO THE REV^D THE DEAN OF ST. PaTricks.

hon^D s^R

I AM a Huckster and Lives in Strand Street & has Dealings with Several familys, a saterday Night a Case of Instruments^[2] was sent me in pawn by a Certain person in Marys Street, for two Rowls a print of Butter four Herrings and three Nagins of strong Watters, My foster brother who ply's about that End of the town tells Me, he wanst saw it in your hand, fearing Hawkins's^[3] whip I send it to

1. Thus endorsed by Dr. Swift; "The best letter I ever read."
2. It is not unlikely this was a present of a case of instruments from lady Johnson to the doctor.
3. Hawkins was keeper of Newgate.