Dear Sir

It fou are at leisure I will desire you to exquire in any Bookseller's shop for a statius and to look in the beginning of the Achilleid for a Birds. net which if I am not mistaken is very finely) described It comes in I think by way of Simile towards & Beginning of the Book, where the doct comparer Achiker's mother looking after a proper seat to conceal her son in to a Bird searching after a fit place for a nest. If you find it and it new or bring it your self and as you acquit. yourself of This you may perhaps be troubled with more Poetical Commissions from

My Hearty/ Service to Ir Swift,
The read time you come bring a
Couch Early if we may take y

fen in it

May. 30.

سلام

your most Faithfull

Humble Servant

I. Addwon.

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