The Images which you will meet with here, will be very feint, after the Perusal of the _Greeks_ and _Romans_, who are your ordinary Companions.

I must confess I am obliged to you for the Taste of many of their Excellencies, which I had not observed till you pointed them to me.

I am very proud that there are some things in these Papers which I know you pardon, and it is no small Pleasure to have one's Labours suffered by the Judgment of a Man who so well understands the true Charms of Eloquence and Poesie.

But I direct this Address to you, not that I think I can entertain you with my Writings, but to thank you for the new Delight I have from your Conversation in those of other men.
"May you enjoy a long Continuance of the true Relish of the Happiness Heaven hath bestowed on you.

I know not how to say a more affectionate Thing to you, than to wish you may be always what you are, and that you may ever think, as I know you now do, that you have a much larger Fortune than you want.