Numb. I.
Terræ-Filius.
Fœnum habeo in Cornu.
Wednesday, January 11. 1721.
Gentlemen and Ladies,
It it ſo long ſince I had the honour of your company at the theatre at Oxford, that I am afraid, according to the cuſtom on the world, you have almoſt forgot your old acquaintance: I will therefore, firſt of all, put you in mind of who I am, and for what reaſons I have been thus long ſilent.
It has, till of late, been a cuſtom, from time immemorial, for one of our family to mount the Roſtrum at Oxford at certain ſeaſons, and divert
