dress of this publick nature: you love the real and folid fatisfactions, not the pomp and thew, those splendid incumbrances of life: your rational and virtuous pleasures burn like a gentle and chearful flame, without noise or blaze. However, I cannot but be confident, that you'll pardon the liberty which I here take, when I have told you, that the making the best acknowldgement I could to one, who has given me fo
many proofs of a generous and pafsionate friendship, was a pleasure too
great to be refifted. I am,