Lord Fitzwilliam this morning had an account that a ticket of his was come up L500.

Lady Fitzwilliam wonders she has not heard from you, and has so little resolution that she cannot resist buttered rolls at breakfast, though she knows they prejudice her health.
"If you will write to me you will make me cheerful and happy, without which I am told the waters will have no good effect.

Pray have some regard to my health, for my life is in your service." * * * * * There is no mention of Gay during the first nine months of the year 1724, after which it has been possible to gather scant information.
Apparently, encouraged by the kindly interest displayed by the Princess of Wales, Gay, still obsessed with his desire for a place, went frequently to Court.

"I hear nothing of our friend Gay, but I find the Court keep him at hard meat.

I advised him to come over here with a Lord-Lieutenant,"[3] Swift wrote to Pope, September 29th, 1725.