I am perfectly satisfied with your Reasons and if your Delays are grounded on them I shall not be impatient for the Future. The Additions and Alterations I cannot remedy, and if I were to revise each Sheet twenty Times I must make new ones – You will have the rest of the 2nd Part by Mr Leak's Parcel.1 I fancy we shall make no further second Revises and so go on more swimmingly for the Future – send the Sheets as they are work't off and I’ll be collecting the Errata and Contents – I am satisfied no Printer can do more than you can – I wish the attentive Correction of the Book may influence to take Care of your own Health, which I am told is disposed to Rotundity and Liquor. Fatness is but anotherWord for a Dropsy of Flesh which a little Time will melt into Snow-water.

Saturday.

I have often been resolved to take an Opportunity to thank you for your many Civilities and extraordinary Gratitude for the small Obligations I was able to do you here. I have neither forgot nor want a due Sense of your Oysters and excellent Apples; but the weekly Miscellany is what I have so great a relish and Gratitude for, that no Money should make me be without it, and as far as my Interest reaches and a proper Occasion offers, I have done it Justice, and perhaps, some Time or other may offer my Mite to keep it full. At present I have something of a Kind with it, which ingages my Attention. Too large for many Months Papers such as yours, and but too small for any Thing but a Pamphlet which I hate; but, if my Imprimatur-Friends so think, I shall, I believe, manage between you and I, without any Communication with Booksellers whom I abominate.