For his son. 
Regis Romani:  primus qui legibus urbem Fundabit, Curibus
parvis et paupere terra, Missus in imperium magnum.

For Sir Robert. 
Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt Moliri, et late
fines custode tueri.

I will show you the rest when I see you.

(211) In a letter from Florence, written by Lady Mary to Mr. Wortley, on the 11th of August, she says, “Lord and Lady Pomfret take pains to make the place agreeable to me, and I have been visited by the greatest part of the people of quality.”  See the edition of her works, edited by Lord Wharncliffe, vol. ii. p. 325.-E.

(212) The following favourable picture” of Lady Mary is by Spence, who met her at Rome, in the ensuing January:-” She is one of the most shining characters in the world, but shines like a comet; she is all irregularity, and always wandering; the most wise, most imprudent; loveliest, most disagreeable; best-natured, cruellest woman in the world; ’all things by turns, and nothing long.’"-E.

(213) George Cooke, Esq. afterwards member for Tregony, and chief prothonotary in the Court of Common Pleas.  On Mr. Pitt’s return to office in 1766 he was appointed joint paymaster-general, and died in 1768.  See Chatham Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 338.-E.

(214) Sir Francis Dashwood, who, on the death of John Earl of Westmoreland, succeeded to the barony of Le Despencer, as being the only son of Mary, eldest sister of the said Earl, and which was confirmed to him 19th April’1763.-E.

163 Letter 27 To Sir Richard West, Esq.  Florence, Oct. 2, 1740, N. S.

Dear West, T’other night as we (you know who we are) were walking on the charming bridge, just before going to a wedding assembly, we said, Lord, I wish, just as we are got into the room, they would call us out, and say, West is arrived!  We would make him dress instantly, and carry him back to the entertainment.  How he would stare and wonder at a thousand things, that no longer strike us as odd!” Would not you?  One agreed that you should come directly by sea from Dover, and be set down at Leghorn, without setting foot in any other foreign town, and so land at Us, in all your first full amaze; for you are to know, that astonishment rubs off violently; we did not cry out Lord! half so much at Rome as at Calais, which to this hour I look upon as one of the most surprising cities in the universe.  My dear child, what if you were to take this little sea-jaunt?  One would recommend Sir John Norris’s convoy to you, but one should be laughed at now for supposing that he is ever to sail beyond Torbay.(215) The Italians take Torbay for an English town in the hands of the Spaniards, after the fashion of Gibraltar, and imagine ’tis a wonderful strong place, by our fleet’s having retired from before it so often, and so often returned.  We went to this wedding that I told you of; ’twas a charming feast:  a large palace finely illuminated;