Dear Sir

If you are at hesure 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 mustaden is very finely described It comer in I think by way of simile towards of Beginning of the Bood, where the Joct compares Achilles's mother looking after a proper seat to conceal her son in to a Bird searching after a fit place for a hest. If you find it send it med or bring it your self and as you acquit yourself of This you may perhaps be troubled with more Predical Commissions from

a

My Hearty/ Service to > Swift,
the next time you come bring a
Couch Early if we may take y

Aen in it.

May.

30.

your most Faithful

Humble Servant

J. Addwon.

OF

JOSEPH ADDISON,

WITH CRITICAL

INCLUDING

THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS
AND OTHER PIECES NOT FOUND IN ANY PREVIOUS
COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY

ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS.

EDITED,

AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,

BY GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE

"No whiter page than Addison remains,
He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth,
And sets the passions on the side of truth;
Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art,

And pours each human virtue thro' the heart."-Porz

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

New York:

G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 321 BROADWAY.

1856.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858,
BY GEO. P. PUTNAM & CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New-York.