1You tell me that the book I sent you most recently pleases you perhaps most of all my works. 1A certain very learned man is of the same opinion. 2This makes me all the more inclined to believe that neither of you is mistaken, since it is not credible that both are mistaken, and since, after all, I flatter myself. 2For I like each latest work to seem the most perfect, and so even now, against that book, I favour a speech which I lately published, and which I shall share with you as soon as I find a reliable courier. 3I have raised your expectations, and I fear that the speech, once taken in hand, may disappoint them.
3Meanwhile, however, wait for it as one that will please you — and perhaps it will. 3Farewell.