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    EXHIBITED IK SUNDRY LETTERS AND MEMOIRS COLLECTED BY THU LATE J . J . PIDCOCK RAIKES , ESQ . ; AND NOW FIRST PUBLISHED * £ Y HIS NEPHEW , SIR RODNEY R . AIKES , WITH SEVERAL MATERIAL ADDITIONS ,

    No . IV .

    REV . PARROCO SPINELLA TO MR RAIKES . Illustrissimiis ! A small tub , smelling very strong , was sent to me by the noble proprietor of your

    lordship ' s late residence in this city , who favoured me also with a billet written by his own hand , informing me that , according to the directions left by your excellency , if anything eatable came into the house in

    your absence , it should be forwarded to me , for my use . I found written upon said tub the English words , Pickled-Sturgeon ; in Italian , Pesce-Cane-Salato .

    Permit me , Illustnssimus , to return my very humble thanks for this present , supposing it a present from your Lordship . But if your very adorned and

    valiant secretary , Mr Secretary Stivers , sent it , I am his devoted and grateful servant . My niece Aurora interrupts me , laughing in her innocent little way . I will not transcribe her childish idea . She fancies it

    was a joke of the most ornate the secretary : But indeed I have often seen the Pesce-Cane at our very best tables . . not perhaps salted , for we have

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    HIGH AND LOW LIFE IN ITALY ,

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    ling , but somewhat fresh . Nevertheless my lord , my teeth e good as they are , are not equal to a Pesce-Cane ' s , and he wouldl have less difficulty to make them enter into my flesh , than I had to make mine enter into his .

    This reminds me of our mortal state , and of the decay to which the highest as well as the lowest are liablel My teeth , God be thanked , are laudable enough at present . But who can foresee the future ! Our Tuscany has no artist in dentification , as the

    happy clime of England has . I would prepare against the evil day which cometh like the thief in the night ; I would not be found unprepared . If your lordship could procure me a

    regular set from some ingenious fabricator , I would amply repay him for the same . In my parish teeth ark seeds that sow the ground pretty thick . I would repay him five for one , and take especial care

    to extract them with my own hand from subjects the most unexceptionable ; that is , from persons under the age of puberty . In others few are quite sound , and hardly any have the set complete . I kiss&c .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/27/