User:Klarm768/Sandbox04
ON THE MISUSE OF THE LETTERS I AND U.
If 'tis true as you say that I've injured a letter,
I'll change my note soon and I hope for the better.
May the right use of letters as well as of men
Hereafter be fixed by the tongue and the pen.
Most devoutly I wish they may both have their due.
And that I may never be mistaken for U.
And again—
ON DR. HILL.
For farces and physic his equal there scarce is;
His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
LAST LETTER OF THE POET.
"To Mr. James Armour, Mauchline.
"My Dear Sir—Do, for heaven's sake, send Mrs. Armour here immediately. My wife is hourly expecting to be put to bed. Good God! what a situation for her to be in, poor girl (not yet thirty), without a friend. I returned from sea-bathing quarters to-day, and my medical friends would almost persuade me that I am better; but I think and feel that my strength is so gone, that the disorder will
prove fatal to me. Your son-in-law,