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affecting to unpoetical feelings — what would it therefore have been to yours? but I have nearly filled a sheet with this agreeable surprize, without telling you that I was also agreeably surprized by the advertisment of your Opera. You had not (as I daresay you intended) told me of your having disposed of it to the manager. I should then have felt no astonishment as it was after your late declaration, I concluded your quarrel was like the quarrel of Lovers & waited for the satisfactory explanation which I was persuaded your next letter would afford me. I am not however so far degenerated by my transmigration from the Helicon to the ?Paitolas? but I take a lively interest in this engaging Ignis Fatuas which I hope will continue to twinkle with eclat till the end of next month, & that it will then contribute “to light me on my way” to Midhurst.

After the two foregoing surprizes, & my having already in a former letter told you that I consider sea Air & bathing as absolutely necessary