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the opening & other unfinish’d parts. But more of this genuine Eagle, when the little sparrow shall be happy enough to twitter by your side — I must now for a thousand reasons haste to close my paper — let me first thank you for yr most pleasant raillery on the God of Physic, & the spirited Verses of yr [sic] Derbyshire Poet –

I would by all means advise you to prefix nothing to your Elegy, except a short account of Lady M^s poetical Institution, unless you rather chuse [sic] to make this account an appendix to the Elegy, & close it with yr own spirited ode, which I think was the last darling of the Vase – yet I believe it will be