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Concert) with a superior performance from the Hand of my dear Parnassian Sister on the most enchanting of all the fine Arts.

A ditty highly penn’d

Sung by a fair Queen in a summer Bower, With ravishing division, to her Lute. —

As you express such an affectionate Curiosity to know the subject of my new Poem, I am bound to gratify yr wishes - & I shall tell you, as a grand secret, that I am in the middle of a long Essay on epic Poetry in five Epistles, to be attended with a Train of Notes as long as a funeral Procession, & perhaps as dull.­ — I will tell you also that you may perhaps \be/ the occasion of my losing by this publication all the little poetical credit I have gain’d —for my eagerness to see you is so great, that as I wish to finish the poem at