DR. SWIFT.
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FROM MR. SECRETARY ST. JOHN.
DEAR DOCTOR,
NOV. 17, 1711.
I ASK pardon for my mistake[1], and I send you the right paper. I am, in sickness and in health, ever your faithful friend, and obedient servant,
FROM LORD BOLINGBROKE,
THURSDAY MORNING, TWO O'CLOCK,
JAN. 5, 1712-13.
THOUGH I have not seen, yet I did not fail to write to lord treasurer. Non tua res agitur, dear Jonathan. It is the treasurer's cause[2]; it is my cause; it is every man's cause, who is embarked on our bottom. Depend upon it, that I never will neglect any opportunity of showing that true esteem, that sincere affection, and honest friendship for you, which fill the breast of your faithful friend,
- ↑ This alludes to the short letter, printed in vol. xi, p. 197.
- ↑ This seems to relate to the promotion of Dr. Swift, in which lord Bolingbroke, in one of his letters, charges the lord treasurer with being extremely backward. See also Journal to Stella, April 7, 1713. Dr. Swift was made dean of St. Patrick's on the 23d of that month.
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