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Three inscriptions on one sheet. (i) ‘Corrige præteritum | præsens rege | cerne futurum.’ (ii) ‘Loco et Tempore.’ (iii) ‘Honor alit artes.’

(Engraved by Pieter Serwouters.)

Copy by Margaret Holland, signed and dated.

(Undated.)

‘Mimez sans interêt, | Pardonnez sans foiblesse, | Soyez soumis aux grands | Sans aucune baissesse.’ Dated at Jena. Decorated with fragments torn from a printed almanac.

(Two messages.)

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.