# The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. II Author: Brown, Thomas, 1662-1704 Genre: Category: Humour Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69126 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+works+of+Mr.+Thomas+Brown%2C+serious+and+comical+%3A+in+prose+and+verse%2C+with+his+remains+Brown&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary I Had done myself the honour to write to you long ago, but wanted a convenience of sending my letter; for you must not imagine ’tis as easy a matter for us on this side the river _Styx_, to maintain a correspondence with you in the upper world, as ’tis to send a pacquet from _London_ to _Rotterdam_, or from _Paris_ to _Madrid_: But upon the news of a fresh war ready to break out in your part of the world, (which, by the by, makes us keep holy-day here in hell) _Pluto_ having thought fit to dispatch an extraordinary messenger to see how your parliament, upon whose resolutions the fate of _Europe_ seems wholly to depend, will behave themselves in this critical conjuncture. I tipp’d the fell... ## Chapters - [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-works-of-mr-thomas-brown-serious-and-comical-in-prose-and-v-7483fd26/chapters/2/index.md) - [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-works-of-mr-thomas-brown-serious-and-comical-in-prose-and-v-7483fd26/chapters/1/index.md) - [LETTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-works-of-mr-thomas-brown-serious-and-comical-in-prose-and-v-7483fd26/chapters/7/index.md) - [part I am of opinion, that king _David_ is not oblig’d to any of you,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-works-of-mr-thomas-brown-serious-and-comical-in-prose-and-v-7483fd26/chapters/4/index.md) - [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-works-of-mr-thomas-brown-serious-and-comical-in-prose-and-v-7483fd26/chapters/3/index.md) - [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-works-of-mr-thomas-brown-serious-and-comical-in-prose-and-v-7483fd26/chapters/6/index.md) - [LETTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-works-of-mr-thomas-brown-serious-and-comical-in-prose-and-v-7483fd26/chapters/5/index.md)