Dear Sir

68323) If you are at hisure I will desire you to enquire in any Bookseller's shop for a statius and to look in the beginning of the Achilleid for a Birds. nest which if I am not mistaken is very finely) described It comer in I think by way of Simile towards & Beginning of the Bood, where the Jost compares Achilles's mother looking after a proper seat to conceal her son in to a Bird searching after a sit plaw for a test. If you find it and i med 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 > Swift,
The read done you come bring.
Coach Early if we may take &

May.30.

سلام

your most Faithfull

Humble Servant

I. Addwon.

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