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will only add that after a few slashes of the Lancet my Neck is reduced into good Shape & order — your Letter delighted me tho it found me in considerable pain. I most sincerely congratulate you on the affectionate & sensible conduct of yr Father to the excellent Giovanni - But your Gratitude towards me is Hyperbolical - In Truth you owe me nothing - yet as the Illusion is pleasing to us both I allow you to retain it | will only add that after a few slashes of the Lancet my Neck is reduced into good Shape & order — your Letter delighted me tho it found me in considerable pain. I most sincerely congratulate you on the affectionate & sensible conduct of yr Father to the excellent Giovanni - But your Gratitude towards me is Hyperbolical - In Truth you owe me nothing - yet as the Illusion is pleasing to us both I allow you to retain it | ||
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will only add that after a few slashes of the Lancet my Neck is reduced into good Shape & order — your Letter delighted me tho it found me in considerable pain. I most sincerely congratulate you on the affectionate & sensible conduct of yr Father to the excellent Giovanni - But your Gratitude towards me is Hyperbolical - In Truth you owe me nothing - yet as the Illusion is pleasing to us both I allow you to retain it
Apropos of Hyperbolical Expression I could not help smiling at the daring Spirit of the dear Muse when I found her ambitious of preserving the following Passage in her Elegy
"the stellar Fires
Spread o'er the sable Cope their thousand Eyes"
I happened to have two [sic] much Fever to sleep on the night your letter arrived & surprized Eliza about 3 o clock in the Morning by the following feverish Extempore, which she insisted