I think of you very often; nobody wishes you better, or longs more to see you ...

I was there [at Bath] for near eleven weeks for a colic that I have been troubled with of late; but have not found all the benefit I expected ...

I lodge at present at Burlington House, and have received many civilities from many great men, but very few real benefits.

They wonder at each other for not providing for me, and I wonder at them all.
Experience has given me some knowledge of them, so that I can say, that it is not in their power to disappoint me."[4] This was certainly ungrateful of Gay, but allowance may perhaps be made for him on the ground that he was, as Coxe has written, "of a sanguine disposition, was easily raised and as easily depressed.

He mistook the usual civilities of persons of distinction for offers of assistance, and argued from the common promises of a Court certain preferment." He accordingly always suffered from mortification, about which he was prone to discourse.