1How is it consistent that you should at the same time both declare that you are hindered by constant business and ask for my writings, which can scarcely win even a little time, time that would otherwise be wasted, from people at leisure? 2I shall let the summer, restless and busy as it is for you, run its course, then, and only in winter, when it will be credible that you can at least have your nights free, shall I look for what in particular among my trifles I should show you. 3In the meantime it is quite enough if my letters are not a nuisance; 3but they are, and so they will be shorter.
3Farewell.