A Copy* of Nic.

Frog's Letter to John Bull.
[John Bull reads.] FRIEND JOHN,--What schellum is it that makes thee jealous of thy old friend Nicholas?
Hast thou forgot how some years ago he took thee out of the sponging-house ?** ['Tis true, my friend Nic.

did so, and I thank him; but he made me pay a swinging reckoning.] Thou beginnest now to repent thy bargain that thou wast so fond of; and, if thou durst, would forswear thy own hand and seal.

Thou sayest that thou hast purchased me too great an estate already, when, at the same time, thou knowest I have only a mortgage.

'Tis true I have possession, and the tenants own me for master; but has not Esquire South the equity of redemption?
[No doubt, and will redeem it very speedily; poor Nic.