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Caen.—Sends an account of events at Hermival (see f. 5).

(Dated 24 Ventôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados. Answered on 16 Mar.)

Captioned ‘Sir Wm Paulet, K.G. Marquis of Winchester’, etc. Engraved by W. H. Worthington from a portrait by Hans Holbein in the possession of Dr Glynn of Cambridge. Published on 20 April 1814 by A[lexander] Beugo, 38 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. Marked (in print) ‘Proof’.

First line: ‘Fine Women are delicate things’.

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Transcript

A Dialogue between two Brothers

Fine Women are delicate things
The Comfort and Joy of Man’s Life
Companions for Nobles and Kings,
Then who would but have a good Wife

Brother Billy O what do you mean?
Are not Women the Authors of Strife,
Many desperate Snares have I seen.
Then who would be plagu’d with a Wife?

When a Man’s incumber’d with Care
She’ll help for to Nourish his Life:
And part of the Burthen she’ll bear.
Then who would but have a good Wife

But they’ll plunder my silver and Gold
And ramble abroad to the life
Besides they are give to Scold,
Then who would be plagued with a Wife

Oh! why do you covet your wealth
It will bring you to sorrow and Strife
When you came of a Woman yourself
Then why should you hate a good Wife

I hate not a Woman he cryed
But O the sad Name of a Wife
I cannot endured† to be tyed
To Sorrow all Days of my life

Besides they have flattering tongues
They’ll Cousin a Man out of his Life
Ah! and Cuckold us when we are young
The[n] who would be plagued with a Wife

‘Nihil agendum quod actum nollemus novissime.’ Dated at Leiden.

Acknowledges the receipt of forty guineas for the copyright of a poem (by Philips) entitled Cyder, in two books. A memorandum by Tonson dated the same day records that ‘Mr Phillips is to have ten Guineas more upon a Second Edition’.

Information on most of the seniors added in MS notes beside the pasted-in sheet. 'The Master' is written, rather than Thompson's proper name.

(Dated ‘[th]e Aug Fridy 1875’ (sic) and postmarked 21 Aug. Docketed ‘Aug[u]st [th]e 18–75’.)

‘Thiologi, non Theologi, quorum sensa, verba et facta ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ λόγος per fidem inhabitans vivaci influxu non animat.’ Dated at Amsterdam. Numbered 79.

(Dated ‘March [th]e 1753 [sic] | Wendsday Night 9 cClock’. Two messages, the second of which was added as a postcript.)

Acknowledges that Jacob and Richard Tonson are entitled to one moiety of the copyrights of Dr Parnell’s Poems and a play called Chit-Chat, by Killigrew, which have previously been printed with Lintot’s name alone as proprietor; and promises that the Tonsons' names will appear as proprietors in future editions. ‘The Battle of the Frogs and Mice’ he claims as entirely his own, except when it is printed with the rest of Parnell’s Poems.

‘In foraminis Petræ quiesco.’ Dated at Nuremberg.

(For the identity of the author see W. C. Newsam and J. Holland, The Poets of Yorkshire (1845), pp. 121–2.)

(Dated ‘March [th]e 1753 [sic] | Wendsday Night 9 cClock’. Two messages, the second of which was added as a postcript.)