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Eloquence that I can blame you no longer - especially as you have resolved with great discretion to take no notice of the darwinian Sneer which is certainly visible in the note I return to you – I am sorry that the dr^s sarcastic Spleen gives such a \dark/ Tinge to the opinions of Boothby - all the critical remarks that I have heard on yr Elegy have a very different Complexion –

I wish I had Leisure to say more on this interesting Subject but at present I must bid you adieu

Farewell & believe me
every yr affectionate
H

Alphonso is perfectly recovered

I ask you a thousand Pardons for repeatedly forgetting to speak of Mr Tasker —subscribe to his Book if you are tolerably rich & shew Him (as a double proof of yr magnanimity) that you can write better Odes than his Translations of Pindar –

Take up yr golden Lyre & begin yr Song to the