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DR. SWIFT.
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them. I will make your compliments to lord Chesterfield and Mr. Pulteney; and I beg you, in return, to make mine to Mr. Ford. Next week I shall have a new coat and new buttons, for the birthday, though I do not know but a turn coat might have been more for my advantage. Yours most sincerely and affectionately.


P. S. I hear that lord Bolingbroke will be in town, at his own house in Pall mall, next week.


As we cannot enjoy any good things without your partaking of it, accept of the following receipt for stewing veal:

"Take a knuckle of veal;
You may buy it, or steal.
In a few pieces cut it:
In a stewing pan put it.
Salt, pepper, and mace
Must season this knuckle;
Then[1] what's join'd to a place,
With other herbs muckle;
That, which kill'd king Will[2]:
And what never stands still[3].
Some sprigs of that bed[4]
Where children are bred,
Which much you will mend, if
Both spinnage and endive,
And lettuce, and beet,
With marygold meet.

  1. "Vulgo, salary."
  2. "Supposed sorrel."
  3. "This is by Dr. Bentley thought to be time, or thyme."
  4. "Parsley. Vide Chamberlayne."
Put