Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
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 (whichiswas 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 everyPage of every Music-book, being the SentimentsI imagine of the Composer.
I executed my Plan with great Punctuality,
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