Dear Sir
The horses are come, and though not Courses of the first Stud, yet, from appearance, promise to do all the work Mrs Earle may have occasion to put them to ------ Quietness is the sine qua non with her, with as much comeliness as is compatible with exemption from misteaches of all kinds --- as to the pair of horses Mr Watson thinks of buying at Boroughbridge, I shou’d fear the purchase will be made too late for them to answer our purpose this year --- you are goodness itself in offering me your poney ------ I imagine I shall be under no necessity of reducing you to serve as a
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dismounted Dragoon; first, because my Poney is at present in vigour and spirits; and secondly, because I feel myself almost as well qualified to fly as ride.----------
My disorders are non-descript, and even by myself undescribable ------ all I know and can tell, is, I perceive myself unwell; and finally believe that Gout is in alliance with old age to torment me ----- Patience and flannel are the only rational panaceas hitherto devised for the former ------ I fear I must have recourse also to Patience, as in turning over all the Dispensatories, I can discover no {^other} plaster against longevity and its satellites -----
John Holdsworth will call tomorrow for your present to Mrs Earle of the Emblem of Wisdom ----- Pray inform him, what diet it is used to ---- The Coachman forgot to wait on you, and is an owl for his pains -------
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The burglars at M^rs Hotham’s will be committed early on tuesday morning, and the stolen Goods deposited in Urquhart’s custody that day before eleven o’clock ---- Time alone can wear out the impression of your being an accessary before the Fact -----
In looking over the abstract of your account, I perceive on the Creditor side of it, “Paid to the Rev:^d M^r Allen two half years salary due 12th of May 1806 £40” -------

“Paid the Rev:^d Thomas Fisher half a year’s Ditto due Lady Day 1806 £20”----
To the latter item a qui pro quo of years, or pure ignorance and inattention on my part? ---- With my best respects and many thanks, and hoping I have detected you in a mistake rather than exposed myself to be sneer’d at,
I remain, Dear Sir,
Your much obliged and
sincere friend --- G, Earle
Beningbrough Hall, June 15^th ---- 1806

Dear Sir
The horses are come, and though not Courses of the first Stud, yet, from appearance, promise to do all the work Mrs Earle may have occasion to put them to ------ Quietness is the sine qua non with her, with as much comeliness as is compatible with exemption from misteaches of all kinds --- as to the pair of horses Mr Watson thinks of buying at Boroughbridge, I shou’d fear the purchase will be made too late for them to answer our purpose this year --- you are goodness itself in offering me your pony ------ I imagine I shall be under no necessity of reducing you to serve as a
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dismounted Dragoon; first, because my Pony is at present in vigour and spirits; and secondly, because I feel myself almost as well qualified to fly as ride.----------
My disorders are non-descript, and even by myself undescribable ------ all I know and can tell, is, I perceive myself unwell; and finally believe that Gout is in alliance with old age to torment me ----- Patience and flannel are the only rational panaceas hitherto devised for the former ------ I fear I must have recourse also to Patience, as in turning over all the Dispensatories, I can discover no {^other} plaster against longevity and its satellites -----
John Holdsworth will call tomorrow for your present to Mrs Earle of the Emblem of Wisdom ----- Pray inform him, what diet it is used to ---- The Coachman forgot to wait on you, and is an owl for his pains -------
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The burglars at M^rs Hotham’s will be committed early on tuesday morning, and the stolen Goods deposited in Urquhart’s custody that day before eleven o’clock ---- Time alone can wear out the impression of your being an accessary before the Fact -----
In looking over the abstract of your account, I perceive on the Creditor side of it, “Paid to the Rev:^d M^r Allen two half years salary due 12th of May 1806 £40” -------

“Paid the Rev:^d Thomas Fisher half a year’s Ditto due Lady Day 1806 £20”----
To the latter item a qui pro quo of years, or pure ignorance and inattention on my part? ---- With my best respects and many thanks, and hoping I have detected you in a mistake rather than exposed myself to be sneer’d at,
I remain, Dear Sir,
Your much obliged and
sincere friend --- G, Earle
Beningbrough Hall, June 15^th ---- 1806