LETTERS

to RALPH ALLEN Efq.

LETTER.

XLI. Of the use of picture and sculpture, both for
civil and religious purposes

XLII. Of a new edition of his letters, and the use of

them.

XLIII. Of the cultivation of his own gardens.

XLIV. Reflections on a falfe report concerning his

own death.

XLV. On the Queen's death.

XLVI. Concerning an object .of their common charity.

XLVII. His folitude for his friends.

XLVIII. An account of his ill ftate of health in his

laft illness.

LIV. His expectation of feeing him in town.

LV. His opinion of the Divine Legation; and his

defire to have the ESSAY ON MAN thought ·

as favourable to the interefts of religion as of

virtue.

LVI. His project of procuring a profe translation of
his Effay into Latin, and his approbation of a
Specimen fent to him of it.

LVII. His chagrine on fomebody's having printed a
new volume of his Letters in Ireland.

LVIII. His fatisfaction in the prospect of meeting his

friend in town.

LIX. Acquainting him with his obligations to a noble

Lord.

LX. An account of his Project for adding a fourth
book to the DUNCIAD.

LXI. Invites his friend to Bath.

LXII. On the fame subject.

LXIII. Relating to the projected edition of his works.

LXIV. On the fame, and the fourth book of the

DUNCIAD.

LXV. On the fame

LXVI. On a noble Lord, who made professions of service.

LETTER.

LXVII. A character of their common friend, - his
amusements in his garden, and folicitude for
the projected edition.

LXVIII. Defires his friend to correct the Effay on

Homer,

LXIX. Thanks him for having done it.

LXX. Account of the publication of the DUNCIAD

LXXI. Of his ill state of health.

The edition of his
works. The laureat and the clergy.

LXXII. The increase of his diforder, and the forefight

of its confequences.

Deny it. I do write to you according to the old ftipulation, for, when you kept your old company, when I writ to one I writ to all. But I am ready to enter into a new bargain fince you are got into a new world, and will answer all your letters. You are first to prefent my most humble respects to the Duchefs of Queensbury, and let her know that I never dine without thinking of her, although it be with fome difficulty that I can obey her when I dine with forks that have but two prongs, and when the fance is not very confiftent. You must likewise tell her Grace that fhe is a general Toast among all honest folks here, and particularly at the Deanery, even in the face of my Whig fubje&ts. I will leave my money in Lord Bathurst's hands, and the management of it (for want of better) in yours: and pray

1) Found among Mr. Gay's papers, and return'd to Dr. Swift by the Duke of Queensbury and Mr. Pope. P.

keep the interest - money in a bag wrapt up and fealed by itself, for fear of your own fingers under your carelessness. Mr. Pope talks of you as a perfect ftranger; but the different pursuits and manners and interests of life, as fortune hath pleafed to difpofe them, will never fuffer thofe to live together, who by their inclinations ought never to part. I hope when you are rich enough, you will have fome little oeconomy of your own in town or country, and be able to give your friend a pint of Port, for the domestic season of life will come on. I had never much hopes of your vampt Play, although Mr. Pope feem'd to have, and although it were ever fo good: But you fhould have done like the Parfons, and changed your Text, I mean the Title, and the names of the perfons. After all, it was an effect of idleness, for you are in the prime of life, when invention and judgment go together. I wish you had 100 1. a year more for horfes - I ride and walk whenever good weather invites, and am reputed the best walker in this town and five miles round. I writ lately to Mr. Pope: I wish you had a little Villakin in his neighbourhood; but you are yet too volatile, and any Lady with a coach and fix horfes would carry you to Japan.

WH

LETTER II.

Dublin, Nov. 10, 1730.

HEN my Lord Peterborow in the Queen's time went abroad upon his Ambassies, the Miniftry told me, that he was fuch a vagrant, they were forced to write at him by guess, because they