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her have her own way & not even to make hera single reproach. My Scheme was to treather as she treated me, and tho'though she might evendraw my own Picture or play Malbrook (whichis was the only tune I ever really liked) not tosay so much as "Thank you Eloisa;" tho'though I had formany years constantly hollowed whenever sheplayed, Bravo, Braviſsimo, Encora, Da capo, allegretto,con exspreſsioné1, and Poco presto with many othersuch outlandish words, all of them as Eloisa toldme expreſsive of my Admiration; and so indeed Isuppose they are, as I see some of them in every Page of every Music-book, being the SentimentsI imagine of the Composer.

I executed my Plan with great Punctuality,

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