it more to your satisfaction -- In the mean time, I beg you will be
punctual in your correspondence, and continue to love your ever
faithful

LYDIA MELFORD
BATH, May 6.



To Sir WATKIN PHILLIPS, of Jesus college, Oxon.

So then Mrs Blackerby's affair has proved a false alarm, and I
have saved my money? I wish, however, her declaration had not
been so premature; for though my being thought capable of making
her a mother, might have given me some credit, the reputation of
an intrigue with such a cracked pitcher does me no honour at all
In my last I told you I had hopes of seeing Quin, in his hours of
elevation at the tavern which is the temple of mirth and good
fellowship; where he, as priest of Comus, utters the inspirations
of wit and humour -- I have had that satisfaction. I have dined
with his club at the Three Tuns, and had the honour to sit him
out. At half an hour past eight in the evening, he was carried
home with six good bottles of claret under his belt; and it being
then Friday, he gave orders that he should not be disturbed till
Sunday at noon -- You must not imagine that this dose had any other
effect upon his conversation, but that of making it more
extravagantly entertaining -- He had lost the use of his limbs,
indeed, several hours before we parted, but he retained all his
other faculties in perfection; and as he gave vent to every
whimsical idea as it rose, I was really astonished at the