From Gay.June 8, 1714.
I am, this evening, to be at Mr. Lewis's with the Provost, Mr. Ford, Parnell, and Pope.
From Dr. Arbuthnot.June 12, 1714.
I remember the first part of the Dragon's[1] verses was complaining of ill usage, and at last he concludes,
He that comes not to rule, will be sure to obey,
When summoned by Arbuthnot, Pope, Parnell, and Gay.
Parnell has been thinking of going chaplain to my Lord Clarendon, but they will not say whether he should or not.
From Dr. Arbuthnot.June 26, 1714.
I have solicited both Lord Treasurer and Lord Bolingbroke strongly for the Parnelian, and gave them a memorial the other day. Lord Treasurer speaks mightily affectionately of him, which you know is an ill sign in ecclesiastical preferments.
From Lord Bolingbroke.July 13, 1714.
Indeed I wish I had been with you, with Pope, and Parnell, quibus neque animi candidiores, in a little time perhaps I may have leisure to be happy.
From Dr. Arbuthnot.July 17, 1714.
I was going to make an epigram upon the im-
- ↑ i.e. Lord Oxford's.
