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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, vol. II

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Of the Second Volume.

A Letter of News from Mr. Joseph Haines, of Merry Memory, to his Friends at Will’s Coffee-House in Covent-GardenPage 1

The Answer18

Scarron to Lewis XIV.21

Hannibal to P. Eugene33

Pindar to Tom Durfey34

James II. to Lewis XIV.35

The Answer38

Julian to Will. Pierre41

The Answer44

Antiochus to Lewis XIV.48

The Answer50

Catherine de Medicis to the Duchess of Orleans52

The Answer54

Cardinal Mazarine to the Marquis de Barbisieux55

The Answer57

Mary I. to the Pope58

The Answer60

Harlequin to le Chaise61

The Answer63

Duke of Alva to the Clergy of France64

The Answer66

Philip of Austria to the Dauphin67

The Answer69

Juvenal to Boileau70

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Diana of Poictiers to Madam Maintenon74

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Hugh Spencer junr. to all Favourites, &c.77

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Julia to the Princess of Conti80

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Dionysius junr. to all Favourites, &c.85

The Answer87

Christiana Queen of Sweden, to the Ladies88

The Answer91

Dr. Francis Rabelais to the Physicians93

The Answer96

Duchess of Fontagne to the Cumean Sybil97

The Answer99

The Mitred Hog101

Beau Norton to the Beaux118

Perkin Warbeck to the pretended Prince of Wales123

Dryden to the Lord —124

Cowley to the Covent Garden Society125

Charon to Jack Catch126

Sir Bartholomew Shower to Serjeant S—127

Jo. Haines’s 2d Letter132

Sir Fleetwood Shepherd to Mr. Prior153

The Answer156

Pomigny of Auvergne to Mr. Abel the singing Master157

The Answer160

Signor Nichola to Mr. Buckly at the Swan Coffee-House in Bloomsbury162

Ignatius Loyola to the Archbishop of Toledo163

Alderman Floyer to Sir Humphry Edwin165

Sir John Norris, Q. Elizabeth’s General, to Sir Henry Bellasis and Sir Charles Hara167

Duke of Medina Sidonia to Mons. Chateau Renault170

Marcellinus to Mons. Boileau172

Cornelius Gallus to the Lady Dilliana176

Bully Dawson to Bully Watson179

The Answer192

Nell Gwinn to Peg Hughes201

The Answer202

Hugh Peters to Daniel Burgess204

The Answer211

Ludlow to the Calves-Head Club214

The Answer216

Naylor to the Quakers219

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Lilly to Cooley226

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Tony Lee to Cave Underhill233

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Alderman Blackwell to Sir C. Duncombe237

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Henry Purcell to Dr. Blow245

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Mrs. Behn to the Virgin Actress250

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Madam Creswell to Moll Quarles257

The Answer262

Jo. Haines’s third Letter267

Certamen Epistolare between an Attorney of Clifford’s-Inn and a dead Parson from Page 290 to Page305

Dialogues of the Dead from Page 306 to the end.

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