Epistle XII. To Fabatus, his Wife's Grand-father.
by
the Same. [Mr. Henley.]
[_]
On a Gallery erected by him.
I Receiv'd Yours, in which you inform'd me that you had inscrib'd a very beautiful Gallery with your own Name,
and that of your son' and on the Day following, had made a Promise of a further Sum,
for the Ornament of the Gates of Comum; that the End of your former Bounty,
might commence a new Favour. I am greatly pleas'd, first, for your Honour in it,
which my Alliance with you gives me a Share of; in the next Place, in observing the Memory of my Father-in-Law preserv'd in Monuments so stately;
and Lastly, for the Addition that redounds to my Country by it; which I am pleas'd to find oblig'd by any Hand,
but overjoy'd, by yours; I have nothing further to do on this Subject,
but to implore the Gods for the Continuance of this Disposition to you,
and a length of Years to exert it. For I reckon upon it as a Certainty,
that when you have acquitted your last Promise, you embark in another.
Generosity once rais'd,
can make no Stop; and Practice the more exalts the Beauty of it.
Farewell.