not be in his, while I live and spoil his fortunes; and I shall take the same pleasure in bringing about such an affair for you as for him, though that be all I have at this time at heart, and shall be mightily pleased to see you both in a way of passing long and easy lives together when I am gone, and as good friends as you and I have always been. I have thoughts of making a journey to the Baths this spring; designing not so much (between you and I) the physick of it, as the entertainment of seeing that part of the West, though I will make the other the pretence, and so may possibly go before the season and spend about three weeks in that adventure.
You will be glad to know that your friend my L. S. and I have been of late upon the best terms that can be, so he has been pressing me to the old business ever since the other has been declared, and says it will be always at my mercy; but I continue fixed to charge myself with no public employment at home. Whether I shall ever do it any more abroad or no, I cannot tell, for I have been mightily pressed upon thoughts of one of late,[1]
- ↑ "During these discussions, Temple was upon friendly terms with Sunderland and Hyde. When, one day, as he was upon
