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while forget your temper to do me justice. Only remember, that if you still refuse to be mine, you will quickly lose him that has resolved to die as he has lived,
All yours, JON. SWIFT.
I have here sent you Mr. Fletcher's letter, wherein I hope I do not injure generosity or break trust, since the contents are purely my own concern. If you will pardon the ill hand and spelling, the reason and sense of it you will find very well and proper.
FROM THE EARL OF BERKELEY[1].
CRANFORD, FRIDAY NIGHT, 1706-7.
I HOPE you continue in the mind of coming hither to morrow; for upon my sincerity, which is more than most people's, I shall be heartily glad to see you as much as possible before you go to Ireland. Whether you are or are not for Cranford, I earnestly entreat you, if you have not done it already, that you would not fail of having your bookseller enable the archbishop of York to give a book[2] to the queen;
- ↑ He had been envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the States General in 1689; and in 1699 and 1700 one of the lord justices of Ireland, where Dr. Swift had been his chaplain. This letter is endorsed by Dr. Swift "old earl of Berkeley, about 1706 or 1707." He died Sept. 24, 1710.
- ↑ Swift's Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners.
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