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Mr. Seladine comes in with your letter,
whom I am engaged to entertain a little;
besides it is supper time, or else I should
bestow one side of this paper in making
love to you! and since I may with mo-
desty express it, I will say that if it be
love to think on you sleeping and
waking, to discourse of nothing with plea-
sure but what concerns you, to wish
myself every hour with you, and to
pray for you with as much devotion as
for my own soul - then certainly it
may be said that I am in love; and
this is all that you shall at this time hear
from your

D. Leycester

Kiss my boy Algernon for me, who
sent me a very prettie French letter.