an apprehension, that my cousin, your father, is in
some danger of being made sheriff the following
yeare ; but I hope 'tis a jealousy without ground,
and that the warm season only keeps him in the
country. — If you come up next week, you will be
entertain'd with a new tragedy, which the author
of it, one Mr. Dennis, cries up at an excessive
rate ; and Colonel Codrington, who has seen it,
prepares the world to give it loud applauses. 'Tis
called " Iphigenia," and imitated from Euripides,
an old Greek poet* This is to be acted at
Betterton's house ; and another play of the same
name is very shortly to come on the stage in
Drury-Lane. — I was lately to visite the Duchess
of Norfolk ; f and she speaks of you with much
affection and respect. Your cousin Montague, J
after the present session of parliament, will be
created Earl of BristoIl,§ and I hope is much
my friend : but I doubt I am in no condition of
having a kindness done, having the Chancellour ||
my enemy ; and not being capable of renounceing
the cause for which I have so long suffer'd. — My

*■ Colonel Codrington wrote an epilogue to Dennis's " Iphi-
genia." Dryden here talks rather slightingly of his acquaint-
ance ; hut " Iphigenia " is a most miserable piece.
t Mar}"-, the daughter of Henry Mordaunt, the second Earl
of Peterborough, and wife of Thomas, the seventh Duke of
Norfolk, afterwards divorced for criminal conversation with Sir
John Germaine. See the Proceedings in the State Trials.
X The Eight Hon. Charles Montague.
§ He was about a year after created Lord Halifax.
