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poetical applause, as the bestowing new Birds & animals on an Island of savages, which you have described in so engaging a manner. I am very anxious that yr present elegiac poem should have the magnitude & all the merit of its two predecessors (& I really think it bids fair to excell [sic] them) because I then wish to see you collected into an elegant elegiac Volume embellished by the pencil of my Friend Romney from whom I will procure you a Frontispiece on that occasion. But all of this hereafter - let me employ the little remainder of my paper in consoling you under the mortification you so feelingly describe & in which I may most truely [sic] be said to sympathise with you, for perhaps I am exactly in the same predicament or the author of Sympathy may possibly have printed a letter, which He very artfully obtained from me, as He has done yours. You have certainly taught Him to write good verses, & I wish you may be able to teach him good manners. I apprehend that poverty tempted him to make that unjustifiable use of yr Letters, & to poverty much may be forgiven – remember the Zone, my dr sister with yr usual partiality! & learn to look on a newspaper with the Eyes of yr favourite Serena - after all, the Generosity of yr praise must do you Honour in the Estimation of every feeling Heart - adieu - Eliza salutes you most kindly - receive my fraternal benediction & believe me ever yrs WH