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Y asking, they sent his old school-fellow, the
Lord Treasurer Danby, to renew
acquaintance with him in his garret. At parting, the Lord Treasurer,
out of _pure affection_, slipped into his hand an order upon the
treasury for L1000,
and then went to his chariot. Marvell, looking at the paper, calls
after the Treasurer, 'My Lord, I request another moment.' They went up
again to the garret, and Jack,
the servant boy, was called.
'Jack, child, what had I for dinner yesterday?' 'Don't you remember,
sir? you had

the little shoulder of mutton that you ordered me to bring from a
woman in the market.' 'Very right, child.'
'What have I for dinner to-day?' 'Don't you know, sir, that you bid me
lay by the _blade-bone

to broil_.' ''Tis so, very right, child, go away.'
'My Lord, do you hear that? Andrew Marvell's dinner is provided;
there's your piece of paper. I want it not. I knew the sort of
kindness you intended. I live here to serve my constituents: the
ministry may seek men for their purpose; _I am not one_.'"[210:1] One
more letter remains to be quoted:-- _To William Ramsden, Esq._ "_June
10, 1678._ "DEAR WILL,--I have time to tell you thus much of
publick matters.

The patience of the Scots, under
their oppressions, is not to be paralleled in any history. They still
continue their extraordinary and
numerous, but peaceable,
field conventicles. One Mr. Welch is their arch-minister, and
the last letter I saw tells,
people were going forty miles to hear him. There came out, about
Christmas last, here, a large book concerning
the growth of popery and arbitrary government. There have been great
rewards offered in private