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I will not congratulate you, for I would not have you think I am glad. & I take for granted you dont think I am, or at least would not have me so to be, else you would have given me a line –but no matter. I went the other day to Old Park, & read what you had written to the Dr–and he was not so glad neither as to hinder him from making Water wch he did all the time I was with him, & continues still to do & thinks he shall not give over of some months. Dont be afraid the discharge does not come from his vesicatory but his pecuniary Ducts. & I as Physician & Summers as Apothecary hold it to be a most salutary Diabetis.
I have my good luck too I can tell you, for when I was at Hull I met with a Roman Ossuary of exquisite Sculpture. How I came by it,
no matter! tis enough that I am possest of it. I send you the inscription wch your Brother Lort or
Halifax may perhaps help me to construe, for as to Yourself I take for granted that all Your skill in
the learned Languages transpird in the Kiss wch you gave his Majestys little finger, & you rose up a mere modern Schollar, with
nothing left but a little Linæan jargon. Be this as it may heres the Inscription literatim. PONPONIA PRIMI
The first three lines I read Pomponia primigeniae Tito Pomponio Felici. but as to the rest it is all Hebrew Greek to me. Seriously
if you can make it out for me I shall be obligd to you.
GENIAE
T PONPONIO FELICI
P. ET P. PA.
I go to York on Thursday but I mean to call in my way on Mr Wedell & Proud Palgrave on Wednesday. Remember me kindly to your Brother Mr Professor Shepherd & the successor of Mr Professor Mickleborough & beleive me to be Dear Mr Professor