What I hav to say for the present is, that you will, by a smak, get a
bocks of kumoddities, whilk you will destraboot as derekit on every on of
them, and you will before have resievit by the post-offis, an account of
what has been don. I need say no forther at this time, knowin your
discreshon and prooduns, septs that our Rachel and Captain Sabor will, if
it pleese the Lord, be off to Parish, by way of Bryton, as man and wife,
the morn's morning. What her father the Doctor gives for tocher, what is
settlt on her for jontor, I will tell you all aboot when we meet; for
it's our dishire noo to lose no tim in retorning to the manse, this being
the last of our diplomaticals in London, where we have found the Argents
a most discrit family, payin to the last farding the Cornal's legacy, and
most seevil, and well bred to us.
As I am naterally gretly okypt with this matteromoneal afair, you cannot
expect ony news; but the queen is going on with a dreadful rat, by which
the pesents hav falen more than a whole entirr pesent. I wish our fonds
were well oot of them, and in yird and stane, which is a constansie. But
what is to become of the poor donsie woman, no one can expound. Some
think she will be pot in the Toor of London, and her head chappit off;
others think she will raise sic a stramash, that she will send the whole
government into the air, like peelings of ingons, by a gunpoother plot.
But it's my opinion, and I have weighed the matter well in my
understanding, that she will hav to fight with sword in hand, be she ill,
or be she good. How els can she hop to get the better of more than two
hundred lords, as the Doctor, who has seen them, tells me, with princes
of the blood-royal, and the prelatic bishops, whom, I need not tell you,
are the worst of all.
But the thing I grudge most, is to be so long in Lundon, and no to see
the king. Is it not a hard thing to come to London, and no to see the
king? I am not pleesed with him, I assure you, becose he does not set
himself out to public view, like ony other curiosity, but stays in his
palis, they say, like one of the anshent wooden images of idolatry, the
which is a great peety, he beeing, as I am told, a beautiful man, and
more the gentleman than all the coortiers of his court.