So much mit and beauty as you have should think of nothing less than doing miracles, and there cannot be a greater than to continue to love me. Affecting everything is mean, as loving pleasure and being fond where you find merit; but to pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind. Whether I have made a good argument for myself I leave you to judge, and beg you to believe me – remember the hour of a strict account, when both hearts are to be open and we obliged to speak freely, as you ordered it yesterday – for so I must ever call the day I saw you last, since all time between that and the next visit is no part of my life, or at least like a long fit of the falling sickness wherein I am dead to all joy and happiness. The plague of **** take – any man or woman alive that take my thoughts off of you. But in the evening I will see you and be happy, in spite of all the fools in the world.

Your humble servant