Send your boy for the foul copies, and he shall
have them ; for it will not satisfy me to send them
by my own servant.
I cannot yet find the first sheet of the first
Eneid. If it be lost, I will translate it over
againe : but perhaps it may be amongst the loose
papers. The fourth and ninth Eclogues, which I
have sent, are corrected in my wife's printed
Miscellany.*

* The Eclogues of Virgil had been published in the first
Miscellany. Dryden probably corrected them with a pen in
Lady Elizabeth's copy of the printed book, and sent it to the
bookseller, as what is technically called co;py.
djryden's letters. 131

LETTER XXII. */

TO MR. JACOB TONSON.
Mr Tonson, Tuesday Morning, July the 6tli, 1697.
