RIDENDO SCRIBENDI RECTE SAPERE EST ET PRINCIPIVM ET FONS

"You have already seen the best of me, and I so passionately love you that I desire we may never meet. If you will examine your heart, you will find that you join the man with the philosopher; and if you have that kind opinion of my sense as you pretend, I question not but you add to it complexion, air, and shape; but, dearest, a man in his grand climacteric is of no sex. Be a good girl, and conduct yourself with honor and virtue, when you love one younger than myself. I am, with the greatest tenderness, your innocent lover,

F. B."