LETTER 346
Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq
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M. Hall, Friday, July 21
Just returned from an interview with this Hickman: a precise fop of a fellow, as starched as his ruffles.
Just returned from an interview with this Hickman: a precise fop of a fellow, as starched as his ruffles.
Thou knowest I love him not, Jack; and whom we love not we cannot allow a merit to! perhaps not the merit they should be granted. However, I am in earnest, when I say, that he seems to me to be so set, so prim, so affected, so mincing, yet so clouterly in his person, that I dare engage for thy opinion, if thou dost justice to him, and to thyself, that thou never beheldest such another, except in a pier-glass.