Chapter XXXIX: Letter XXXVII: To Mrs Steward

MADAM, Saturday, Aug. 5th, 1699.

This is only a word, to threaten you with a troublesome guest, next week: I have taken places for my self and my sonn in the Oundle coach, which sets out on Thursday next the tenth of this present August; and hope to wait on a fair lady at Cotterstock on Friday the eleventh. If you please to let your coach come to Oundle, I shall save my cousin Creed the trouble of hers. All heer are your most humble servants, and particularly an old cripple, who calls him self

Your most obliged kinsman,

And admirer,

JOHN DRYDEN.

_For Mrs Stewart, Att_
_Cotterstock, near Oundle,_
_in Northamptonshire. These._
_To be left with the Postmaster of Oundle._