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preserve my poor Mistress, for I am sure, at the rate she goes on, she is like to be as crazy as the best of them!! —

Now let me seriously & soberly thank you for yr charming letter – your remarks on Music delight me, because they lead me to hope, that I shall prevail on you to do, what I have in vain tempted a musico-poetical but indolent neighbour of mine to begin; - I mean a Poem on that Science: for I want to see in our Language a little poetical Encyclopedia, or collection of Poems on such Arts & Sciences, as may be happily treated in Verse – I have some Hopes of completing four separate Compositions of this nature myself, including my imperfect essays on Painting & History, & I shall be most happy to see my work concluded by (like a well-directed