1You write that my letter was very welcome to you, from which you learned how I spend my summer leisure on my Tuscan estate; 1you ask what I change of this at my Laurentine villa in winter. 2Nothing, except that the midday sleep is dropped and much is taken from the night, either before or after daylight, and, if the need of pleading presses, as it often does in winter, there is no longer room after dinner for a comic actor or a lyre-player, but what I have dictated is gone over again and again, and at the same time my memory profits from the frequent correction. 3You have my habits in summer and winter; 3you may add spring and autumn to these, which, lying between winter and summer, lose nothing of the day and gain a little from the night.
3Farewell.