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Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Note 1 — POETICAL EPISTLE.

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The graceful manner of speaking is particularly what I shall always hollow in your ear, as Hotspur hollow'd Mortimer to Henry the fourth, and like him, I have aimed to have a Starling taught to say, "Speak distinctly and gracefully," and send him you to replace your loss of the unfortunate Matzell, who by the way, I am told, spoke his language distinctly and gracefully. Lord Chesterfield's Letter to his Son, page 305. 4to. edit. 1st. Vol.

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