together of fleep. I am now got to Twitenham, to try if the air will not take some part in reviving me, if I can avoid colds; and between that place and Batterfea with my Lord B. I will pass what I have of life, while he stays (which I can tell you, to my great fatisfaction will be this fortnight or three weeks yet.) What if you came before Mr. Allen, and staid till then, instead of poftponing your journey longer? Pray, if you write, juft tell him how ill I have been, or I had wrote again to him: But that I will do, the first day I find myself alone with pen, ink, and paper, which I can hardly be even here, or in any spirits yet to hold a pen. You fee I fay nothing, and yet this writing is labour to me. I am, &c. LETTER CXXI. April 1744. I Am forry to meet you with fo bad an account of myfelf, who fhould otherwife with joy have flown to the interview. I am too ill to be in town; and within this week fo much worse, as to make my journey thither, at prefent, impracticable, even if there was no Proclamation in my way. I left the Town in a decent compliance to that; but this additional prohibition from the highest of all powers, I must bow to without murmuring. I wish to fee you here. Mr. Allen comes not till the 16th, and you will probably chufe to be in town chiefly while he is there. I received yours just now, and I writ to hinder from printing the Comment on the Use of Riches too haftily, fince what you write me, intending to have forwarded it otherwise, that you might revise it during your ftay. Indeed my prefent weakness will make me less and lefs capable of any thing. I hope, at leaft, now at firft, to see you for a day or two here at Twitenham, and concert measures how to enjoy for the future what I can of your friendship. *He died May 30. following. |
