Your lordship has too good an understanding to imagine that my principal regard in this affair is not to your reputation, although it be likewise mingled with pity to the innocent sufferer. And I hope you will consider, that this case is not among those where it is a mark of magnanimity to despise the censure of the world: because all good men will differ from you, and impute your conduct only to a sparing temper, upon an occasion where common justice and humanity required a direct contrary proceeding.
I conclude with assuring your lordship again, that what I have written was chiefly for your lordship's credit and service: because I am, with great truth,
Your lordship's most, &c.
FROM DR. SHERIDAN TO DR. SWIFT AND MRS. WHITEWAY.
I SEND you an encomium upon Fowlbrother enclosed, which I hope you will correct; and if the world should charge me with flattery, you will be so good as to explain the obligations I lie under to that great and good bookseller.
How the plague can you expect that I should answer two persons at once, except you should think I had two heads; but this is not the only giddiness you have been guilty of. However I shall not let the dean know it.
SIR,
I wonder you would trust Mrs. Whiteway to write
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