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　　LETTER 360

　　CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS ALLSOP

　　Jan. 17, 1825.

　　Dear Allsop—I acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a draft on Messrs. Wms. for £81:11:3 which I haste to cash in the present alarming state of the money market. Hurst and Robinson gone. I have imagined a chorus of ill-used authors singing on the occasion:

　　What should we when Booksellers break?

　　We should rejoice da Capo.

　　We regret exceed'ly Mrs. Allsop's being unwell. Mary or both will come and see her soon. The frost is cruel, and we have both colds. I take Pills again, which battle with your wine & victory hovers doubtful. By the bye, tho' not disinclined to presents I remember our bargain to take a dozen at sale price and must demur. With once again thanks and best loves to Mrs. A.

　　Turn over—Yours, C. LAMB.

　　[Hurst and Robinson were publishers. Lamb took the idea for his chorus from Davenant's version of "Macbeth" which he described in The Spectator in 1828 (see Vol. I. of the present edition). It is there a chorus of witches—

　　We should rejoice when good kings bleed. ] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6