Igo tomorrow to the Deanry, and, I believe, I Chall stay there, till, I have faid Dust to dust, and Shut up that 28 last scene of pompous vanity.b palio pongað 'Tis a great, while for me to stay there at this time of the year; and I know I fhall often fay to myself, while I am expecting the funeral, O Rus, quando ego te afpiciam quandoque licebit In that cafe I Thall fancy I hear the ghost of the dead, thus intreating me, T 312 201 QOVAttu facratæ› neɔparce malignusvärenægil el. ^ Offibus & capiti inhumators, 9101sd Cy d Particulam dare 2. Quanquam feftinas, non eft mora longe; licebit, Injecto ser pulvere, curras, yin siz.k #w bus door There is an answer for me fomewhere in H in Hamlet to this requeft, which you remember, tho I don't. Poor Ghost! thou shalt be Jatisfied! or fomething like it. However that be, take care you do pot fail in your appointment, that the company of the living may make me fome amends for my attendance on the dead. 9750 101 2959 fondist vo I know you w will be & Should always could I always be here glad to hear that I am well: bousedsme ybucris al d aris, dont ad flow bact Imperiofa trahit Proferpina vive, valeque. 8 This was the Funeral of the Duke of Marlborough, at which the Bishop officiated as Dean of Westminster y in Aug, 1732.25¡Pes You are the first man I sent to this morning; and the laft man I defire to converse with this evening, tho' at twenty miles distance from you. I Te, veniente die, Te, decedente, requiro. From the Bifhop of ROCHESTER. Ο DEAR SIR, The Tower, April 10, 1723. Thank you for all the inftances of your friendship, both before, and fince my misfortunes. A little time will complete them, and feparate you and me for ever, But in what part of the world foever I am, I will live mindful of your fincere i kindness to me; and will please myself with the thought, that I still live in your esteem and affection, as much as ever I did; and that no accidents of life, no distance of time, or place, will alter you in that refpect. It never can me; who have lov'd and valued you, ever fince I and thall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you fo; as the cafe will foon be. Give faithful fervices to Dr. Arbuthnot, and thanks for what he fent ine, which was much to the purpofe, if any thing can be faid to be to knew you, an in a cafe the 93 that is already determined. Let him know my Defence will be fuch, that neither my friends need blufh for me, nor will my enemies have great occafion of Triumph, thoi fure of the Victory shall want his advice before Lugo (abroad, in »many things. - Buti question whether I fhall be permitted to see him, or any body, but such as are abfolutely neceffary towards the dispatch of my private affairs. If so, God bless you both! and may no part of the ill fortune that attends me, ever pursue either of you! I know not but I may call upon you at my hearing, to say somewhat about my way of spending my time at the Deanry, which did not feem calculated towards managing plots and confpiracies. But of that I fhall confider You and I have spant many hours together upon much pleasanter subjects; and, that I may preserve the old custom, I fhall not part with you now till I have clos'd this letter, with three lines of Milton, which you will, I know, readily and not without fome degree of con cern apply to your ever affectionate, &c. Some nat❜ral Tears he dropt, but wip'd them foon: LETTER XXII. C The Anfwer. April 20, 1723. 38 T is not poffible to express what I think, and what I feel, only that have thought and felt for nothing but you, for some time past: and shall think of nothing fo long for the time to come. The grea teft comfort I had was an intention (which I would have made practicable) to have attended you in your journey, to which I had brought that perfon to con fent, who only could have hindered mined byva" tye which, tho' it may be more tender, I do not think more strong, than that of friendship. ✅ But I fear there will be no way left me to tell you this great truthỷ that I remember you, that I love you, that Dam grấa teful to you, that I entirely esteem1and value you': Ino way but that one, which needs no open warrant to authorize it, or fecret conveyance to secure it; which no bills can preclude, and no Kings prevent; a way that can reach to any part of the world where you may be, where the very whisper or even the wifh of a friend multin not be heard, or even suspected: by this way, I dare tell my esteem and affection of you, to your ene. mies in the gates, and you, and they, and their fons, may hear of it. You prove yourself, my Lord To know me for the friend I am; in judging that the manner of your Defence, and your Reputation by it, is a point of the highest concern to me: and affuring me, it fhall be such, that none of your friends fhall blufh for you. Let me further prompt you to do yourself the best and most lafting i juftice: the inftruments of your Fame to pofterity will be in your own hands. May it not be, that providence has appointed you to some great and ufeful works and calls you to it this fevere way? You may more eminently and more effectually ferve the Public even now, than in the ftations you have fo honourably fill'd. Think of Tully, Bacon, and Claren don; 29 is it not the latter, the difgraced part of their # I widy #.es Bad 11 un da 29 Clarendon indeed wrote his, beft works in his banpifhment but the best of Bacon's were written before his difgrace, and the beft of Tully's after his return from extiendow of evenmoĮ 7 lives which you most envy, and which you would choose to have liv’â? 2531 am tenderly sensible of the wish you express, that Ho part of your misfortune may pursue me! But, God knows, I am every day less and lefs fond of my native country (fo torn as it is by Party-rage) and begin to confider a friend in exile as a friend in death; one gone before, where I am not unwilling nor unprepared to follow after; and where (however various or uncertain the roads and voyages of another world may be) I cannot but entertain a pleasing hope that we may meet again. I faithfully affure you, that in the mean time there is no one, living or dead, of whom I fhall think oftener or better than of you. I fhall look upon you as in a state between both, in which you will have from me all the passions and warm wishes that can attend the living, and all the respect and tender sense of lofs, that we feel for the dead And 1 fhall ever depend upon your constant friendship, kind memory, and good offices, tho' I were never to fee or hear the effects of them like the trust we have in benevolent fpirits, who, tho we never fee or hear them, wè think, are conftantly serving us, and praying for us. Whenever I am wifhing to write to you, I fhall conclude you are intentionally doing so to me. And every time that I think of you, I will believe you are thinking of me, I never shall suffer to be forgotten (nay to be but faintly remember'd) the honour, the pleasure, the pride 1 muft ever have, in reflecting how frequently you have delighted me, how kindly you have diftinguish'd me, how cordially you have ad |