'I will give her,' he said, 'everything necessary for the completion of your musical education, and in four years, I will take you to Dresden (he was in the service of the Elector of Saxony, King of Poland), not as a girl, but as a castrato.
There we will live together without giving anyone cause for scandal, and you will remain with me and minister to my happiness until I die.

All we have to do is to represent you as Bellino, and it is very easy, as nobody knows you in Bologna.

Bellino's mother will alone know the secret; her other children have seen their brother only when he was very young, and can have no suspicion.

But if you love me you must renounce your sex, lose even the remembrance of it, and leave immediately for Bologna, dressed as a boy, and under the name of Bellino.

You must be very careful lest anyone should find out that you are a girl; you must sleep alone, dress yourself in private, and when your bosom is formed, as it will be in a year or two, it will only be thought a deformity not uncommon amongst 'castrati'.