A

LETTER

TO MY

LORD

MY LORD,

YOU have always shown yourself so generous to your friends that I cannot help but believe you will pardon the liberty I take on behalf of one of the best of mine. This favor is to beseech you to be so kind to him as to take the trouble original: "take the pains" to read through his book. I am not attempting to commit original: "engage" you to the following part, which my friend, the author, promises to publish in the future; for I know these authors are prone to give us great hopes of what they in- The sentence ends mid-word at the bottom of the page; the catchword "tend" indicates the word is "intend."