I have sent [you] by Dr.
Delany, the Opera, Polly Peachum, and Captain Macheath.

I would have sent you my own head (which is now engraving to make up the gang), but it is not yet finished.

I suppose you must have heard that I have had the honour to have had a sermon preached against my works by a Court chaplain, which I look upon as no small addition to my fame."[1] JOHN GAY TO DEAN SWIFT.
Bath, July 6th, 1728.
"In five or six days I set out upon an excursion to Herefordshire, to Lady Scudamore's, but shall return here the beginning of August....

The weather is extremely hot, the place is very empty; I have an inclination to study, but the heat makes it impossible."[2] * * * * * "I suppose Mr.Gay will return from the Bath with twenty pounds more flesh and two hundred pounds less in money," Swift wrote to Pope on July 16th.

"Providence never designed him to be above two-and-twenty, by this thoughtlessness and cullibility.